Director, Technical Program Management (EPTech)

About the role

Lead technical programs that deliver on critical business goals and build large scale products & platforms.

Responsibilities

• Drive the strategy and execution of large-scale, technically complex, cross-functional programs aligned with Capital One’s business priorities.
• Break down complexity and organizational silos, influence roadmaps, dive deep into system design and architecture, make technical tradeoffs, drive platform consolidation, and identify, resolve, define, and escalate mitigation plans for hard technical dependencies.
• Grow and develop a team of TPMs, while building the foundations for the TPM practice.
• Execute, follow-through, and drive well-educated decisions across product, engineering, design, and data science representatives.
• Build systems & solutions within a highly regulated environment.

Requirements

• Strong technical backgrounds (ideally building highly scalable platforms, products, or services) with the ability to proactively identify and mitigate technical risks throughout delivery life-cycle.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills.
• Excellent problem solving and influencing skills.
• A quantitative approach to problem solving and a collaborative implementer to holistic solutions; a systems thinker.
• Experience as a TPM leader to grow and develop a team of TPMs, while also building the foundations for the TPM practice.
• Deep focus on execution, follow-through, accountability, and results.
• Exceptional cross-team collaboration; able to work across different functions, organizations, and reporting boundaries to get the job done.
• Highly tuned emotional intelligence, good listener, and deep seeded empathy for teams and partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• At least 7 years of experience managing technical programs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field (Computer Science, Software Engineering).
• MBA or Master’s Degree in a related technical field (Computer Science, Software Engineering) or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience designing and building data-intensive solutions using distributed computing.
• 3+ years of experience in building distributed systems & highly available services using cloud computing services / architecture - preferably using AWS.
• 3+ years experience building highly scalable mobile products & platforms.
• 3+ years years experience delivering large and complex programs - where you own the business or technical vision, collaborate with large cross-functional teams, secure commitments on deliverables and unblock teams to land business impact.
• 3+ years of experience in building systems & solutions within a highly regulated environment.

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.

Schedule

Full-time.

Benefits

Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.

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.