Director, Software Engineering

Director, Software Engineering

As a Capital One Director of Software Engineering in Financial Crimes Investigations and Anti-Money Laundering (AML), you will serve as a strategic leader responsible for driving the technical vision, execution, and culture of our Risk Tech organization.

In this role, you will be a trusted partner to business, product, and design stakeholders. You will lead the engineering strategy for critical systems—ranging from highly critical regulatory application to investigation tools to highly available microservices and ML/AI models. Your work will directly support our ability to detect, investigate, and prevent financial crimes through cutting-edge open source frameworks and AI techniques.

You'll bring solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as: node.js, Java, GO, Angular

JS, React, Python, REST, JSON, XML, Ruby, Perl, No

SQL databases, relational databases, Spark, Artifactory, Maven, iOS, Android, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure to name a few.

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers
• Actively attract, interview, and elevate top engineering talent. Mentor and guide the professional development of engineers, cultivating an environment where they can thrive
• Work with product leaders to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios
• 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
• Demonstrate high quality in operations, managing incidents, application performance, and resilience while avoiding technical debt
• 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
• Continuously improve software engineering practices
• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments
• Guide stakeholders and teams to embrace strategic solutions that align with organizational goals for AML, ensuring solutions are built for long-term sustainability and scale

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 7 years’ experience in software development
• At least 5 years’ experience in people management

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering
• 10+ years’ of experience in software development
• 10+ years’ of experience in cloud computing (building applications in AWS)
• 5+ years’ of experience in Agile practices
• 3+ years’ of experience deploying machine learning models and LLMs
• Familiarity with Industry standards related to software and data engineering

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

Salary ranges by location:

• McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Director, Software Engineering
• Richmond, VA: $244,700 - $279,200 for Director, Software Engineering

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

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.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. No agencies please.

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