Sr. Distinguished Engineer (Sr. Director IC) - Business Card & Payments

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Sr. Distinguished Engineer (Sr. Director IC) - Business Card & Payments

As a Sr. 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. Sr. Distinguished Engineers are individual contributors who strive to be diverse in thought so we visualize the problem space.

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 work with the Business Card & Payments team to help drive the vision and architectural direction for our products, playing a crucial role in leading tech initiatives and delivering complex solutions, ranging from evaluating platform choices for building new products as well as embarking on technological transformation of existing products. The role will also be key in collaborating with cross-functional teams to define technical strategies that align to the business objectives.

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:

1. Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
2. Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
3. Collaborate on BC&P's toughest issues to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives of our customers and associates
4. Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
5. Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability, and operability
6. Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
7. Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
8. 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
9. Help accelerate adoption of the best engineering practices while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends, and practices
10. Evangelize, 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

Basic Qualifications

1. Bachelor's Degree
2. At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
3. At least 9 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns
4. At least 5 years of experience in public cloud technologies
5. At least 3 years of experience in data architecture

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Masters' Degree
2. 12+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
3. 9+ years of experience designing and building enterprise platforms
4. 3+ years of experience with AWS

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 Capital One Careers website . 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.

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