Sr Director, Software Engineering - Stability Engineering & Operations

Sr Director, Software Engineering - Stability Engineering & Operations

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Company Name:
Capital One

Center 3 (19075), United States of America, McLean, Virginia Sr Director, Software Engineering - Stability Engineering & Operations

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead, manage, mentor, and build extremely talented software engineering teams to deliver game changing technologies. The Senior Director 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.

As a candidate for this role, you’re able to seamlessly switch from diving deep into technology with engineers to driving high‑level, strategic discussions. You are a naturally curious technologist and stay on top of emerging trends, including hands‑on prototyping of nascent technologies. You are not afraid to question any existing processes and solutions, yet you display a keen sense of business value proposition and focus on the right priorities.

The Senior Director will be a part of the Stability & Engineering Operations organization focusing on leading teams while driving the strategy and destination state architecture for resiliency, observability engineering, and monitoring for distributed systems across the enterprise.

You thrive in working in a fast paced, technologically forward leaning environment and are not afraid to push the boundaries. You'll bring solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as: AWS, Java, Python, Salesforce, Service Now, Datadog to name a few.

You will:

• Influence executive stakeholders
• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of software engineers and build a culture of accountability
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team
• Work with product leaders to define the strategy, roadmap and destination architecture
• Manage a portfolio of diverse technology platforms and projects to build scalable applications that meet our customer needs
• Continuously improve software engineering practices
• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full‑stack of 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

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 9 years experience in software engineering or software development
• At least 7 years experience in people management
• At least 5 years of public cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree
• 12+ years of software engineering or software development experience
• 7+ years of experience in building distributed systems & highly available services using cloud computing services (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• 5+ years of experience in resiliency and observability engineering best practices
• 3+ years of experience in chaos engineering
• 2+ years of experience in Domain Driven Design and Event Driven Architecture

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

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