Director, Software Engineering at Capital One Financial Corporation in Richmond, VA

Are you excited by the challenge of solving large-scale FinTech problems through innovative engineering and product management? Do you enjoy solving complex challenges with open source technologies in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment? Are you obsessed about building robust, highly scalable, available enterprise grade platforms that are the heartbeat for delivering high quality products? At the same time have a great feel for a seamless engaging customer experience? You're at the right place!

We're looking for an influential engineering leader to provide strategic direction on initiatives with significant bottom line impact. This role provides a considerable opportunity for ingenuity, as this individual will work as a key leader of an exceptionally talented team, to deliver cutting edge innovation at a massive scale.

We are looking for an independent thinker who makes convincing, evidence-based, consensus oriented decisions. The ideal candidate will devise clear roadmaps to fruition and is comfortable thinking strategically and diving deep; a vanguard leader who can identify opportunities and leverage the team to translate them into live solutions.

What you will need to bring for this position:

• A proven passion for building, leading and growing high performing teams in the development and rapid delivery of next-generation digital platform and products
• A servant leader that has a history of creating a safe space and inclusive environment fostering diverse views and approaches from the team, coaching and mentoring them to thrive in a dynamic workplace
• A history of embracing and incubating emerging technology and open source products
• A real passion for building highly resilient, scalable and available platforms, rich reusable foundational capabilities and seamless developer experience while focusing on strategic vision and technology roadmap delivery in an MVP / iterative fast paced approach.
• Ability to collaborate with various partners in the tech and startup ecosystems
• The ability to seed and extend innovation into the greater organization to develop key talent, consistent with that of a leading technology company
• Technical Leadership: the ability to inspire your teammates to think outside the box as they deliver high quality software solutions
• Recruit, motivate, mentor, and lead the best application engineering talent.
• Innovative thinking with a passion for problem-solving
• Ability to provide a logical framework to support conclusions and ideas.
• Great attitude, team player and energy amplifier. Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities and technologies
• Take ideas and concepts, and visualize them in ways such that they are communicated effectively and compellingly for internal leaders, partners and customers, thereby building strong partnerships, consensus and alignment.
• Understanding of ways to lead a team developing in an Agile environment

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on technical leadership to a dynamic team throughout the software development life cycle
• Co-create a strategic vision for external developer / partner facing highly available platforms and products.
• Collaborate with architects, other teams, product owners, and software engineers to drive implementation of robust platform capabilities and experiences.
• Exceptional written, oral and interpersonal communication skills to interact and build strong partnerships across organizational boundaries.
• Influence with a strong positive attitude: Drive consensus across cross functional leaders and teams
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Conduct design, architecture and code review to ensure compliance with standards
• Ability to work independently in a fast paced, unstructured environment
• Ensure adherence to continuous improvement practices as required to meet quality / time to market imperatives
• Maintain records to document program development and revisions

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 5 years' building and leading full stack (Java / Spring / Go, NodeJS, Javascript) software engineering teams in a fast paced environment
• At least 5 years' experience with Amazon Web Services / Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud
• At least 3 years' of experience operating in Software Engineering space with DevOps thinking

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree
• 10+ years in inspiring, coaching and growing highly performant software engineering teams
• 8+ years' experience in Agile practices
• 5+ years' experience working with Amazon Web Services
• 5+ years' experience in leading highly scalable web application development
• 5+ years' experience leading highly available internet facing customer application development
• 3+ years' experience with building modern applications using microservices based architecture,