Sr Distinguished Engineer - Ops Excellence and Cloud Compliance - Enterprise Tech

Sr Distinguished Engineer - Ops Excellence and Cloud Compliance - Enterprise Tech

As a Senior 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 work with our Operational Excellence and Cloud Compliance teams, as well as the entire Distinguished Engineering community at Capital One. You will articulate patterns and standards for ensuring our applications embody non-functional requirements like reliability, observability, data protection and scalability. You will then lead the implementation of technology to automatically scan, verify and audit compliance with those standards across our entire cloud footprint. You will be instrumental in building the technology that will enable us to innovate rapidly in the cloud.

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
• Build awareness, increase knowledge and drive adoption of modern technologies, sharing consumer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in
• Strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where others’ ideas can be heard and championed; leverage expertise to grow skills in the broader Capital One team
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence, using opportunities to reuse and innersource solutions where possible
• Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization
• Operate as a trusted advisor for a specific technology, platform or capability domain, helping to shape use cases and implementation in a unified manner
• Lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting external talent to bolster Capital One’s Tech talent

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 9 years of experience with Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 13+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
• 13+ years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns
• 13+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.
• 5+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies
• 5+ years of experience in designing and building distributed systems and highly available services using cloud computing services (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• AWS Certifications