Director, Software Engineering - Risk Tech

Capital OneMcLean, VA
$269,100 - $307,200

About The Position

As a Capital One Director of Software Engineering, you'll work on everything from customer-facing web and mobile applications using cutting-edge open source frameworks, to highly-available RESTful microservices, to back-end Java based systems and machine learning models using the hottest techniques in Big Data. You'll bring solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as: node.js, Java, GO, AngularJS, React, Python, REST, JSON, XML, Ruby, Perl, NoSQL databases, relational databases, Spark, Artifactory, Maven, iOS, Android, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure to name a few. About the team: At Capital One, risk management is not just part of the business. It is the business. In our fast-paced, rapidly evolving world, it is critical that we transform our risk management practices and capabilities to keep up with the needs of the business, our customers and stakeholders. The Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) tech team is on a mission to modernize our approach to risk management with technology, moving from reactive to proactive, and from manual to automated. As a Tech Leader, you'll be at the heart of this change, helping to drive the transformation of GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) product that support our core business.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • At least 7 years of experience in software engineering
  • At least 5 years of experience in people management

Nice To Haves

  • Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Master’s Degree in Software Engineering
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering
  • 5+ years of experience in Agile practices
  • Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

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 using full-stack development tools and technologies
  • Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
  • Bring a passion for staying 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, the implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity
  • Work across teams to improve the velocity of your own and other teams
  • Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments
  • Break down existing monolithic applications into microservice architectures and build new microservices

Benefits

  • performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)
  • comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being
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