As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you'll lead the future of banking technology in the cloud, collaborating with developers and product managers to devise innovative solutions. You will specialize in application architecture, influence technology decisions, and mentor upcoming engineering talent, promoting a culture of excellence and diversity within the organization. Your role will involve clear communication of architectural guidelines and optimization of business outcomes through strong technical solutions.

As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders. Our Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.

At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence, and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community.

Distinguished Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.

If you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One's engineering teams, come join us in our mission to change banking for good.

About the team: The Business Bank Engineering (BBE) Lending & Capital Markets team is a culture led engineering organization that builds and integrates software for our Commercial Bank. We design and deliver solutions across a diverse technology landscape consisting of a variety of open source technologies, enterprise platforms, and cloud services. 

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain an overall architecture for the domain, in alignment with divisional and enterprise guidelines

• Look broadly across the domain to ensure consistency in architecture across the domain

• Collaborate with other domain architects and the divisional architecture team to ensure consistency across multiple domains

• Identify opportunities for application reuse and consolidation, both within your domain and by providing or consuming capabilities from other domains or lines of business

• Represent and advocate on behalf of your domain to the larger architecture community, particularly the Divisional Chief Architect and peers in the architecture center of practice

• Guide the domain architecture team in problem solving activities, ensuring that all voices are heard and understood while driving to timely, realistic solutions

• Ensure architecture decisions are clearly documented, communicated, and maintained for all initiatives within the domain 

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

• Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the domain

• Lead the way in keeping both the technology and the technologists in the domain up-to-date with modern architecture practices

• Protect against missed opportunities by providing or soliciting diverse points of view on how to solve our problems

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years of experience with application architecture and design patterns

• At least 5 years of experience designing and implementing large-scale, distributed systems

• At least 3 years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Financial Services technologies, e.g. Capital Markets, Securitization, Commercial Lending

• Experience implementing vendor applications and integrating with cloud-native applications

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering

• 10+ years of experience of working with business leaders on the implications of architectural decisions

• 4+ years building cloud native architectures, architecting enterprise applications on public cloud platforms and cloud ecosystems (AWS, GCP or Azure)

• 5+ years experience with DevOps or DevSecOps and building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Artifactory, Chef, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation templates, GitHub, and Sonar

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

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the 

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