Distinguished Engineer In Risk Tech, we provide the foundation for Capital One to thrive in an uncertain world. Our engaged, empowered, and intelligent people produce outstanding products, working toward the common goal of transforming risk management with technology. We build data-driven tools that use machine learning to prevent risks & automatically detect issues before they impact our business, our customers, or our communities. This is a unique opportunity to be the key technical force behind a CEO-visible initiative at the heart of Capital One's long-term risk management strategy. As the senior-most engineer reporting directly to the Senior Director, you will be the lead technical expert for Core Compliance. You will actively participate in and support a fundamental transformation: moving from traditional spot-checking to an "always-on," continuous monitoring ecosystem for our internal processes. You will partner closely with the engineering manager and team responsible for delivery, providing the deep technical guidance to solve their most complex challenges. Furthermore, you will be at the epicenter of our practical application of Generative AI. This team launched Capital One's first production-level GenAI use cases, and has many more in the pipeline. You will not just oversee these rollouts but actively accelerate our adoption, setting the pattern for how we apply these powerful new technologies to solve critical business problems. As a seriously great software engineer, you will contribute by leading from the front, focusing on hands-on technical execution to solve our most complex challenges. You will personally write code, build prototypes, and lead the design for our most critical systems, rotating between leading projects from inception to production and diving into areas of need to get them to the finish line. A core part of your role will be to partner with leadership to drive the technical strategy for our pioneering GenAI work, leading its hands-on implementation. You will use your deep expertise in AWS and our internal infrastructure to relentlessly push us to improve our tooling and delivery speed. In all of this, you will act as a role model and coach, investing deeply in mentoring other engineers and championing our culture. We're looking for a leader with a distinct bias for action and a deep sense of ownership. You are a hands-on technologist who thrives in the trenches and is a pragmatic problem-solver, with a proven ability to translate ambiguous, high-stakes business challenges into concrete, executable technical plans. This technical skill is matched by an obsession with customer and business results, always starting with the user and working backward to deliver measurable impact. Distinguished Engineers are: Deep technical experts and thought leaders that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices Visionaries, collaborating on Capital One’s toughest issues, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives of our customers and associates. They set the architecture and technical strategy for the domain Role models and mentors, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community Evangelists, both internally and externally, helping to elevate the Distinguished Engineering community and establish themselves as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities