Distinguished Engineer; Servicing Platform

Distinguished Engineer (Servicing Platform)

Distinguished Engineers 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. In Capital One, Distinguished Engineers demonstrate the following attributes.

• 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
• Have a software engineering/problem solving mindset being equally comfortable in deep diving with an understanding of how to build highly resilient operational platforms that can scale with 4 9’s availability

As a Distinguished Engineer, in the Servicing Platform space you will partner alongside Product and Engineering teams to build and deliver innovative solutions at an enterprise scale. You will be involved in continuously helping to build and improve our platforms to ensure security, performance, maintainability, and usability are best-in-class.

• Build awareness, increase knowledge and drive adoption of modern technologies, sharing consumer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in
• Operates with a platform mindset with deep familiarity on multi-tenancy, serverless computing, high performance computing patterns.
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence, using opportunities to reuse and inner source solutions where possible.
• Operate as a trusted advisor for a specific technology, platform or capability domain, helping to shape use cases and implementation in an unified manner
• Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization.
• 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
• 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

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering or solution architecture (Internship experience does not apply)
• At least 3 years of experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• At least 1 year of experience implementing ML or AI on enterprise platforms

• Masters’ Degree
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering or solution architecture
• 7+ years experience designing and building enterprise platform solutions
• 5+ years of experience with Agile software development
• 4+ years experience with AWS
• 3+ years of experience defining software design, architecture and engineering practices

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

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Distinguished Engineer

Richmond, VA: $244,700 - $279,200 for Distinguished Engineer

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website.

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug‑free workplace.

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