Distinguished Engineer

Overview

Distinguished Engineer is a senior individual contributor leadership role responsible for shaping technical direction, architecture, and engineering excellence across Capital One India Tech.

What you'll do

• Define and promote a technical vision for the domain.
• Break complex problems into practical, operational solutions.
• Provide architecture guidance for large-scale, cross-domain programs.
• Design and execute proofs of concept with engineering teams.
• Develop domain architectures aligned with enterprise guidelines.
• Guide technology choices through design and architecture discussions.
• Mentor technical talent and support recruiting efforts.

What you'll need

• Hold a bachelor's degree.
• Have at least 7 years of software engineering and solution architecture experience.
• Have at least 5 years of enterprise architecture and design-pattern experience.
• Have at least 3 years of public or private cloud technology experience.
• Demonstrate deep technology expertise and engineering leadership.
• Understand system characteristics including performance, scalability, and operability.

Nice to have

• Master's degree in Computer Science.
• 10+ years working with business leaders on architectural decisions.
• 10+ years across the full system development lifecycle.
• 4+ years building cloud-native architectures on AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.