Center 3 (19075), United States of America, McLean, Virginia
Distinguished Engineer
As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud.
You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders. Our Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.
At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence, and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community.
Distinguished Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.
In this role, you will be supporting the Bank Tech organization. You will lead development and implementation that will enable these business initiatives, working with other leaders and teams across the enterprise to enable these solutions.
If you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One's engineering teams, come join us in our mission to change banking for good.
Key Responsibilities:
- Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
- Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
- Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
- Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability
- Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
- Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
- Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
- Explore new cloud technologies and identify applications to leverage their potential
- Develop patterns for cloud to enable emerging business initiatives
- Collaborate with tech leaders to drive tech strategy
- Evangelize cloud strategy, solutions and best practices across the enterprise
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- At least 7 years of experience with solution architecture or software engineering
- At least 2 years of AWS experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Technology
- 9+ years of experience with solution architecture or software engineering
- 2+ years of experience with Chaos Engineering