Senior Director, Software Engineering

Capital One • McLean, VA

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About The Position

As a Capital One Senior 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 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, Hadoop, Chef, Maven, iOS, Android, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure to name a few. You will: Systems Thinking and Problem Solving: Ability to apply a deep understanding of complex, distributed systems to proactively identify, diagnose, and resolve cross-organizational technical challenges and systemic reliability gaps. Operational Excellence: Overseeing all aspects of operations, focusing on system stability, performance, and availability. This includes setting and enforcing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and managing incident response processes. Engineering and Architecture: Guiding the development lifecycle (SDLC) and software delivery, and ensuring adherence to best practices to build highly reliable, scalable, and resilient systems. This also involves promoting the adoption of automated deployment workflows and working across large-scale platforms and products, with a focus on cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) People and Organization Management: Serving as a People Leader responsible for hiring, mentoring, and developing a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and blameless post-mortems. Providing efficient allocation of resources in alignment with top priorities. Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborating with other engineering, product, and business leaders to align reliability initiatives with overall organizational goals and manage technical risk.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 9 years’ experience in software development
• At least 7 years’ experience in people management
• experience in 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, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering
• 13+ years’ of experience in software development
• 8+ years’ of experience in Agile practices

Responsibilities

• Systems Thinking and Problem Solving: Ability to apply a deep understanding of complex, distributed systems to proactively identify, diagnose, and resolve cross-organizational technical challenges and systemic reliability gaps.
• Operational Excellence: Overseeing all aspects of operations, focusing on system stability, performance, and availability. This includes setting and enforcing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and managing incident response processes.
• Engineering and Architecture: Guiding the development lifecycle (SDLC) and software delivery, and ensuring adherence to best practices to build highly reliable, scalable, and resilient systems. This also involves promoting the adoption of automated deployment workflows and working across large-scale platforms and products, with a focus on cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• People and Organization Management: Serving as a People Leader responsible for hiring, mentoring, and developing a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and blameless post-mortems. Providing efficient allocation of resources in alignment with top priorities.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborating with other engineering, product, and business leaders to align reliability initiatives with overall organizational goals and manage technical risk.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director