Senior Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack (Solution Architect)
About The Position
Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Solution Architects who are passionate about marrying data with emerging technologies. As a Capital One Solution Architect, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One. In this role, you will provide technical leadership for designing and implementing critical technology solutions. As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for ensuring solutions adhere to our enterprise standards for software, data, and network engineering. You will also be responsible for establishing multi-year, domain destination architectures (DDAs) for various business capabilities, ensuring we have buy-in for long-term architectural roadmaps. You’ll also be responsible for establishing the guardrails, patterns, and best practices for onboarding emerging technologies such as multi-agentic AI.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- At least 6 years of experience in software engineering (Internship experience does not apply)
- At least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Nice To Haves
- Master’s Degree
- 9+ years of experience in at least one of the following: JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, Python
- 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, or another cloud service
- 4+ years of experience in open source frameworks
- 2+ years of experience in Agile practices
- 5+ years of experience as a Solutions Architect
- 8+ years of experience architecting, designing and delivering scalable and decoupled systems in a heavily regulated technology environment
- 3+ years of experience working with internal and external business clients
- 3+ years of experience to engaging, influencing and driving initiatives by partnering with technology executives
- AWS or equivalent certifications (Cloud Practitioner, Solution Architect-Associate, GCP or Azure)
Responsibilities
- Lead solutions architecture design for multi-platform/cross-platform solutions
- Leading trade-off and impact analysis work for hard to change technical decisions, and manage technical conflict
- Demonstrate thought leadership and strategy in partnership with delivery and product partners
- Provide architectural guardrails and white papers for onboarding new technologies, especially multi-agentic AI.
- Establish a 3+ year “Domain Destination Architecture” (DDA) for various business capabilities.
- Explain and represent solutions in the Architecture Review Boards, and various product, platform and architecture discussions
- Presenting work products and strategies to product managers, technology leadership across Capital One
- A primary architecture point of contact for other architecture teams & and delivery teams for solutions and systems
- Continuously learn as technology needs evolve
Benefits
- comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
