Distinguished Engineer

• Deep technical experts and thought leaders that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices

• Visionaries, collaborating on Capital One’s toughest issues, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives of our customers and associates

• Role models and mentors, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community

• Evangelists, both internally and externally, helping to elevate the Distinguished Engineering community and establish themselves as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities

• Leaders who gain the trust and confidence of those around them, from hands on engineers to executives

Whether a member of our engineering or architecture teams, Distinguished Engineers are individual contributors expected to solve problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative delivery environment. In order to meet these demands, candidates should be influential engineering leaders with deep technology expertise, and a collaborative style that brings others into the decision-making process. Distinguished Engineers will significantly impact the Tech agenda within their organization and devise clear roadmaps to deliver next generation technology solutions across organizational boundaries.
Responsibilities:

• Build awareness, increase knowledge sharing and drive adoption of modern technologies and architecture patterns, sharing customer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in

• Promote a culture of engineering excellence and being well-managed, using opportunities to reuse and innersource solutions where possible

• Operate as a trusted advisor helping to shape use cases and implementation in an integrated manner

• Be the guiding force for stakeholders in design and architecture discussions, helping the engineering teams make key technology choices, and staying associated with the use case through its development lifecycle  

• Lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting external talent to bolster Capital One’s Tech talent

• Bring in a larger context to 100+ software teams across multiple domains and guide their architecture evolution in response to business changes

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 6 years of software architecture experience 

• At least 2 years of experience with cloud technologies including AWS, GCP, or Azure

• At least 4 years of experience with micro-services architecture

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

• 7+ years of experience in agile development practices & methodologies

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