What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Software Engineering position at Capital One?
As a Capital One Director of Software Engineering, you'll be providing technical leadership to high performing Software Engineering teams dedicated to productionizing cutting-edge software and machine learning systems at scale. You’ll participate in the full software development lifecycle for Java-based solutions from detailed system designs, to development and finally shipping production ready robust software services using cloud-based technology and AI platforms. You’ll serve as a technical domain expert in the software development lifecycle through guiding architectural design decisions and ensuring high availability and performance of our software services. You will be leading teams with highly-available RESTful microservices, to back-end Java based systems using the hottest techniques in Big Data. You'll bring solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as: node.js, Java, Python, REST, JSON, XML, Ruby, Perl, NoSQL databases, relational databases, Spark, ML Notebooks, Hadoop, Chef, Maven, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure to name a few.
You will:
- Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers
- Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team.
- Work with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios - Continuously improve software engineering practices
- Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack development tools and technologies
- Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
- Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community
- Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity
- Work across to improve the velocity of your and other teams
- Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments
- Break existing monolithic applications into micro service architectures and build new microservices
- Recruit, nurture, and retain top engineering talent.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- At least 7 years’ experience in software development
- At least 5 years’ experience in people management
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree
- 10 years of experience in software development
- 5 years of experience in Agile practices
- 1 year of experience in building and deploying AI or Machine Learning software solutions
Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
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