Director, Software Engineering - Collections Technology Modernization

Capital One's Card Tech Engineering Organization is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead, manage, mentor, and build exceptional software engineering teams to deliver game changing technologies. The 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-focused 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 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.

As a Director of Software Engineering in the Capital One’s CardTech Customer Resiliency (CR) team, you will be responsible for leading Collections technology teams with specific focus on helping drive and modernize the data ecosystem and the core of real time intelligent collections (RTIC) application. In CR Collections, we specialize in servicing our Card customers in their most difficult financial moments and help them get back to good standing with Capital One. With RTIC, we are modernizing to support highly flexible, configurable and extensible solutions using Capital One enterprise platforms. As part of the Collections team you will be part of this modernization journey.

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 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 7 years’ experience in software development

• At least 5 years’ experience in people management

• At least 3 years of experience in public cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree

• 10+ years of experience in software development

• 3+ years of experience building and scaling consumer applications

• 4+ years of experience with AWS

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