Director of Software Engineering

Capital One
Southlake, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 12/21/2021 CLOSED ON 2/19/2022

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Director of Software Engineering

Capital One is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to work in our Enterprise Data and Machine Learning Organization. This leader must have the ability to attract and recruit the industry’s best talent, and simultaneously have the technical chops to ensure that we build compelling, customer oriented solutions in an iterative methodology. Success in the role requires an innovative mind, a proven track record of delivering next generation software and data products, rigorous analytical skills, and a passion for creating market-leading software that integrates automation, machine learning, and predictive analytics.


Our Directors Are:

  • Technologists: Strong engineering and technology background with the ability to learn quickly and go deep into our product and engineering solutions - will have a DevOps mindset

  • Effective Communicators: Excellent listener; proven collaborator with senior leaders, peers and staff

  • Partnership Attitude: 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

  • Curious: Hands-on, "roll up your sleeves" collaborative style of working

  • Passionate: Bring energy and enthusiasm to the job and organization

  • Bold: History of taking smart, calculated risks and aggressively leading through change

  • Achievers: Consistently attain/exceed individual and team goals

  • Passionate leaders with focus on diversity, inclusion and belonging


You will:

  • Lead, manage, and grow multiple teams of product focused software & data engineers

  • Embrace and incubate emerging technology and open source products across all platforms

  • Work to modernize our existing tech stacks and data platforms

  • Collaborate with internal teams to find areas of opportunities for automation and machine learning

  • Partner with architects, product owners, data professionals, and software & data engineers to drive the implementation of new applications

  • Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across full-stack development tools and technologies.

  • Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments and provide operational support for the applications.

  • Conduct design and code review to ensure compliance with standards


Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

  • At least 7 years of experience in software or data engineering

  • At least 5 years of experience managing software or data engineering teams


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree

  • 10 years of experience in software or data engineering

  • 7 years of experience managing software and data engineering teams

  • 4 years of experience with AWS


Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, 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.

If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Careers@capitalone.com

Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.

Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).

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