Director, Software Engineering (Security)

About the role

You'll work on everything from security platforms to cloud and software development, building Capital One’s future state security capabilities. You will lead the creation of a future-state Security Service Edge (SSE) and network security platform designed to abstract and simplify complex security functions across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers.
• Build software services and platforms.
• 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, vendor technology recommendations and evaluations.
• Implement software engineering best practices and continuously improve them.
• Work within and across Agile teams to 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.
• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments.
• Break existing monolithic applications into micro service architectures and build new microservices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 7 years’ experience in software development
• 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
• 5+ years’ of experience in Agile practices
• 3+ years’ of experience in security engineering and architecture
• 3+ years of experience with Networking (BGP, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, Cloud Networking and Data Center Networking)

Benefits

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website.

Pay

Salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting.

• McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Director, Software Engineering
• Plano, TX: $244,700 - $279,200 for Director, Software Engineering
• Richmond, VA: $244,700 - $279,200 for Director, Software Engineering

Schedule

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. No agencies please.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.