Distinguished Engineer

Capital One • Longview, TX

218d • $239,900 - $273,800

About The Position

At Capital One, we believe in the values of Excellence and Doing the Right Thing. We are a technology-oriented company delivering financial products to market through modern technology and constant innovation at a massive scale. The distinguished engineer within the Divisional Architecture team demands a technicology practitioner with deep technical skills, strong influence, and an unwavering desire to raise the bar. This pivotal role carries broad responsibilities, helps drive strategic technology direction, fosters innovation, and ensures consistent application of our standards, guidelines and patterns. Distinguished Engineers are: Deep technologist: Possesses profound and broad technical expertise with understanding of underlying mechanisms and the ability to connect and apply knowledge across multiple technologies and domains through significant and tangible hands-on impact. Complex Problem Solvers: Lead the resolution of highly complex technical challenges, providing expert knowledge of standards, practices, and patterns. Identifies new solutions and patterns when existing patterns are insufficient. Role models and mentors: helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community Thought Leaders: Contribute to internal and external technology communities through presentations, publications, and workshops. High Bar Setter: Relentlessly champions and enforces rigorous standards for technical excellence, code quality, and solution design. Push teams to achieve high performance and high quality. Cultivate a culture where quality is paramount, ultimately driving superior technology outcomes. Distinguished Engineers are individual contributors expected to solve problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative delivery environment. In order to meet these demands, candidates should be influential engineering leaders with deep technology expertise, and a collaborative style that brings others into the decision-making process. Distinguished Engineers will significantly impact the Tech agenda within their organization and devise clear roadmaps to deliver next generation technology solutions across organizational boundaries.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 7 years of experience with application architecture and design patterns
• At least 5 years of experience with architectural patterns (SOA), building APIs, microservices, event streams, and high throughput systems

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or a Master's Degree in Software Engineering
• 10+ years of experience of working with business leaders on the implications of architectural decisions
• 4+ years building cloud native architectures, architecting enterprise applications on public cloud platforms and cloud ecosystems (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• 5+ years experience with DevOps or DevSecOps and building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Artifactory, Chef, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation templates, GitHub, and Sonar

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an overall architecture for the domain, in alignment with divisional and enterprise guidelines
• Look broadly across the domain to ensure consistency in architecture across the domain
• Collaborate with other senior engineers across the divisional architecture team to ensure consistency across multiple domains
• Identify opportunities for strategic technical reuse and consolidation by providing or consuming capabilities from other domains or lines of business
• Ensure architecture decisions are clearly documented, communicated, and maintained for all initiatives within the domain
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence and being well-managed, using opportunities to reuse and innersource solutions where possible
• Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the domain
• Lead the way in keeping both the technology and the technologists in the domain up-to-date with modern architecture practices

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Financial benefits
• Inclusive set of benefits that support total well-being
• Performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree