Sr. Director, Software Engineering (Asset Intelligence)
About the role
As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at Capital One, you'll work on everything from customer-facing web and mobile applications using cutting-edge open source frameworks to highly-available RESTful microservices and back-end Java-based systems. You'll join Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering (CORE) to lead the Asset Intelligence technology organization into an AI-empowered future, setting the technical vision, championing robust tooling and automation, and empowering teams across critical services and controls.
Your mission will focus on organizational leadership—managing multiple teams, developing engineering leaders, and driving Operational Excellence to build scalable solutions and propel the Asset Transformation journey.
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 design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack of development tools and technologies
- Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
- Stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal and 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
- Improve the velocity of your and other teams
- Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments
- Break existing monolithic applications into microservice architectures and build new microservices
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- At least 9 years’ experience in software development
- At least 7 years’ experience in people management
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
- 13+ years’ experience in software development
- 8+ years’ experience in Agile practices
Skills
Experience with emerging and traditional technologies such as:
- Node.js, Java, Go, AngularJS, React, Python, REST, JSON, XML, Ruby, Perl
- NoSQL databases, relational databases, Hadoop
- Chef, Maven, iOS, Android, AWS/Cloud Infrastructure
Pay
The annual salary ranges for this role by location are:
- McLean, VA: $314,800 - $359,300
- Plano, TX: $286,200 - $326,700
- Richmond, VA: $286,200 - $326,700
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location. This role is also eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, including cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives (LTI).
Benefits
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits to support your total well-being. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.