Director, Software Engineering - Commercial Banking at Capital One
Petersburg, VA
About the Job
Director, Software Engineering - Commercial Banking
About Capital One:At Capital One, we’re changing banking for good. We were founded on the belief that no one should be locked out of the financial system. We’re dedicated to helping foster a world where everyone has an equal opportunity to prosper. We’re a bank, but we don’t think like one. We’re always thinking about what’s next, about how we can innovate and inspire, and about how we can develop the tools our customers need to improve their financial lives - by leveraging best in class technology.
Capital One's Business Bank Engineering team is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead, manage, mentor, and build exceptional software engineering teams to deliver game changing technologies. As a candidate for this role, you have the technical chops to ensure that we build compelling, customer-focused solutions. You have a strong engineering and technology background with the ability to learn quickly and go deep into our product and engineering solutions. You’re able to seamlessly switch from diving deep into technology with engineers to driving high-level, strategic discussions. You are a naturally curious technologist, you have the competencies to build very strong partnerships with other technology leaders that enable your team's ability to stay on the leading edge of industry solutions. You bring hands-on "roll up your sleeves" collaborative style of working with the ability to inspire your teammates to deliver quality software solutions. You are not afraid to question any existing processes and solutions, yet you display a keen sense of business value proposition and focus on the right priorities.
About the team: The Business Bank Engineering (BBE) Lending team is a fast paced and passionate organization that is responsible for building new and exciting capabilities of the lending platform used for underwriting and portfolio management of large commercial loans. We design and deliver software solutions across a diverse technology landscape consisting of a variety of open source technologies, enterprise platforms, and cloud services.
As a Director of Software Engineering in the BBE team, you will execute on high priority initiatives, influence across our organization, and drive the platform forward. Specifically, you will be partnering closely with stakeholders, engineering and other cross functional teams to create roadmaps, scope programs aligning them with business priorities, define milestones and success metrics, and build scalable, secure, reliable, efficient capabilities. This role will be responsible for big picture thinking, strategic direction, presenting to executive stakeholders, and holding engineering teams accountable for overarching delivery goals.
You will:
Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers in building our core banking platform
Embrace and incubate emerging technology and open source products across all platforms
Work to modernize our existing tech stacks
Collaborate with internal teams to find areas of opportunities for automation and machine learning.
Partner with architects, product owners, and software engineers to drive the implementation of new applications
Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across mobile and web full-stack development tools and technologies.
Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments
Conduct design and code review to ensure compliance with standards
Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity
Create proof of concepts and see through projects through production
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree
At least 7 years of experience in software development or software engineering
At least 5 years of experience in people management
At least 3 years of experience with public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
5+ years of experience in designing large scale and resilient applications
5+ years of professional experience in commonly used programming languages like Java, Python, Golang, .Net, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, etc.
3+ years of experience building applications using Angular or React
3+ years of experience with solutioning a large scale platform
Experience with Software quality assurance, Test automation or DevOps
Experience in Agile practices
Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the
. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.
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