Director, Software Engineering
About The Position
As a Capital One Director of Software Engineering in Financial Crimes Investigations and Anti-Money Laundering (AML), you will serve as a strategic leader responsible for driving the technical vision, execution, and culture of our Risk Tech organization. In this role, you will be a trusted partner to business, product, and design stakeholders. You will lead the engineering strategy for critical systems—ranging from highly critical regulatory application to, investigator tools to, highly available microservices and ML/AI models. Your work will directly support our ability to detect, investigate, and prevent financial crimes through cutting-edge open source frameworks and AI techniques. 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. You will: Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers Actively attract, interview, and elevate top engineering talent. Mentor and guide the professional development of engineers, cultivating an environment where they can thrive Work with product leaders to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios 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 Demonstrate high quality in operations, managing incidents, application performance, and resilience while avoiding technical debt 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 Continuously improve software engineering practices Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments Guide stakeholders and teams to embrace strategic solutions that align with organizational goals for AML, ensuring solutions are built for long-term sustainability and scale
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- At least 7 years’ experience in software development
- At least 5 years’ experience in people management
- 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
Nice To Haves
- 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 cloud computing (building applications in AWS)
- 5+ years’ of experience in Agile practices
- 3+ years’ of experience deploying machine learning models and LLMs
- Familiarity with Industry standards related to software and data engineering
Responsibilities
- Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers
- Actively attract, interview, and elevate top engineering talent.
- Mentor and guide the professional development of engineers, cultivating an environment where they can thrive
- Work with product leaders to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios
- 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
- Demonstrate high quality in operations, managing incidents, application performance, and resilience while avoiding technical debt
- 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
- Continuously improve software engineering practices
- Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments
- Guide stakeholders and teams to embrace strategic solutions that align with organizational goals for AML, ensuring solutions are built for long-term sustainability and scale
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
