Director, Software Engineering - Commercial Banking

West Creek 1 (12071), United States of America, Richmond, Virginia

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 a 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 reviews 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 projects through to 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.