Director, Software Engineering (Network Platform Development)

Overview

The Director, Software Engineering (Network Platform Development) will be responsible for Capital One network design and transformation, fundamentally shifting the Network infrastructure towards a proactive, Intent Based Network architecture framework, built on Infrastructure-as-Code principles. This leader will focus on accelerating automation, AI integration, innovation-first engineering discipline and engineering practice maturity.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team.
• Work with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios
• Continuously improve software engineering practices
• Work within and across Agile teams to select, design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack development tools and technologies
• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
• Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity
• Work across to improve the velocity of your and other teams
• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments
• Break existing monolithic applications into micro service architectures and build new microservices

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 7 years’ experience in software development
• At least 7 years’ experience in network engineering and architecture
• At least 5 years’ experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering
• 10+ years’ of experience in software development
• 10+ years’ of experience in advanced networking concepts in routing, switching and wi-fi
• 8+ years’ of experience in cloud and software-defined networking
• 5+ years’ of experience in Agile practices