Director of Software Engineering

Company: Capital One
Location: Euless
Posted on: November 19, 2020

Job Description:

Plano 3 (31063), United States of America, Plano, Texas Director of Software Engineering Capital One is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead, manage, mentor, and build an extremely talented team of engineers and technologists. Their teams will be responsible for developing the next generation of software supporting S&SRE (Stability and Site Reliability Engineering). Our TOC (Technology Operations Center) responds to high severity incidents and we are looking for this individual to lead efforts in building software around stability, and in some instances automating resolution, of these events.

This leader will be responsible for shaping and driving the technical strategy in this space as well as leading teams, in an Agile environment, to execute on that vision. This leader 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. Success in the role requires an innovative mind, a proven track record of delivering next generation software products, rigorous analytical skills, and a passion for creating market-leading software.

Our Directors Are:

Technologists: Strong engineering and technology background with the ability to learn quickly and go deep into our product and engineering solutions - will have a DevOps mindset

Effective Communicators: Excellent listener; proven collaborator with senior leaders, peers and staff

Partnership Attitude: Have the competencies to build very strong partnerships with other technology leaders that enable your team's ability to stay on the leading edge of industry solutions

Curious: Hands-on, "roll up your sleeves" collaborative style of working

Passionate: Bring energy and enthusiasm to the job and organization

Bold: History of taking smart, calculated risks and aggressively leading through change

Achievers: Consistently attain/exceed individual and team goals

You will:

Lead, manage, and grow multiple teams of product focused software & data engineers

Embrace and incubate emerging technology and open source products across all platforms

Work to modernize our existing tech stacks and data platforms

Collaborate with internal teams to find areas of opportunities for automation and machine learning

Partner with architects, product owners, data professionals, and software & data engineers to drive the implementation of new applications

Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across full-stack development tools and technologies

Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments and provide operational support for those applications

Conduct design and code reviews to ensure compliance with standards

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree

At least 8 years of experience in software engineering

At least 5 years of Agile experience

At least 4 years of people management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Masters’ Degree

10+ years of experience developing in Java, Python, or Scala

8+ years of people management experience

4+ years of AWS experience

4+ years of Kubernetes experience

2+ years of Go experience

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

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