Senior Director - Software Engineering

Overview

Lead multiple teams of product-focused software engineers within the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team, shaping technical strategy, architecture and talent for Capital One's AI platforms in the cloud.

What you'll do

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product-focused software engineers
• Shape long-term technical strategy and architecture standards for enterprise platforms
• Partner with senior engineering and business leaders to align product roadmaps with scalable technology capabilities
• Drive talent strategy, ensuring succession planning, skill development and equitable opportunity across engineering teams
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team
• Work with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios and develop market-driven application capabilities and customer experiences
• Continuously improve software engineering practices
• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack development tools and technologies
• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
• Stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal and 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
• Work across the organization to improve the velocity of your and other teams
• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments

What you'll need

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field such as Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics or Engineering
• At least 7 years of people management experience
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
• At least 9 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns
• At least 9 years of experience in cloud computing including AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
• At least 9 years of experience in Data architecture, including expertise in data modeling, scalable data pipelines, data warehousing and real-time data processing ecosystems

Nice to have

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
• 12+ years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns
• 12+ years of experience in web technologies including JavaScript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks
• 12+ years of experience in designing and building distributed HPC and ML systems
• 12+ years of experience in cloud computing including AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
• 12+ years of experience in Data architecture, including expertise in data modeling, scalable data pipelines, data warehousing and real-time data processing ecosystems
• 12+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Go, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, Scala
• 10+ years of experience with database and database management systems
• 12+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
• 10+ years of experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, cloud-based productivity tools or virtualization technologies
• 12+ years of experience with Networking protocols and integration with third party distributed systems
• 7+ years of experience mentoring senior engineers and driving professional development within technical teams
• 3+ years of experience leading cross-domain architectural reviews or establishing coding and design standards
• Expertise in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnātaka, India
• Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position