Distinguished Enterprise Architect

Locations: VA - McLean, United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Distinguished Enterprise Architect

Distinguished Enterprise Architects are individual contributors who strive to be diverse in thought so we visualize the problem space. At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. Distinguished Engineers will significantly impact our trajectory and devise clear roadmaps to deliver next generation technology solutions.

As a Distinguished Enterprise Architect for Commercial Bank, you will be solving impactful technical problems. Commercial Bank offers dozens of complex products to our clients, and we build solutions for them as well as our associates that support them. An architect is someone that together with Product and Design shapes the products we build, down to the long list of quality attributes that include resiliency, security, and observability. An architect is a chief designer, someone that thinks in systems and takes into account org design, skill sets, timelines, and technology.

We have a polyglot landscape and rely heavily on Open Source Software, building with Go, TypeScript, Python, Java, .NET Core, Kotlin, React and Angular; we use Kafka, Restful APIs, Kubernetes, we store our data in fit for purpose databases (graph, relational, document), and run all of it on the public cloud across multiple regions. Our teams are cross-functional and we use Domain-Driven Design to help us manage complexity.

Distinguished Architects are:

• Deep technical experts and thought leaders that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices
• Visionaries, collaborating on Capital One’s toughest issues, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives of our customers and associates
• Role models and mentors, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
• Evangelists, 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

Responsibilities:

• 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 an 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
• Work across multiple lines of business within Commercial Bank, partnering with other architects. Bring in a larger context to 100 software teams across Commercial Bank and guide their architecture evolution. Write code and deploy it to validate your designs
• Influence Capital One Enterprise architecture and infrastructure, implementing their initiatives in Commercial Bank as well as bringing our requirements to them
• Shape the vision and strategy for Commercial Bank’s tech journey

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 7 yrs experience in software development
• At least 7 years of systems architecture experience
• At least 5 yrs of experience architecting enterprise scale applications
• At least 3 years of experience with public cloud infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9 years of software engineering experience
• 5 years of experience with architectural patterns, building APIs, microservices, event streams, and high throughput systems
• 5 years building cloud native architectures, architecting enterprise applications on public cloud platforms and cloud ecosystems
• 4 years of designing scalable and resilient distributed systems
• 2 years of designing cloud native apps in AWS
• 4 years of experience designing, building, and running systems that include multiple applications and teams
• 2 years of experience with CICD, Information Security, Cloud infrastructure, microservices, and document databases
• 2 years of experience of Design and Architecture toolbox (ATAM, DDD, ADR, user journey maps)

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.

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