Sr. Distinguished Engineer
Capital One
Capital One is the first largest bank to go all in on the public cloud while operating in a complex and highly regulated business environment and has transformed itself into a technology company. We are a technology-oriented company delivering financial products to market through modern technology and constant innovation at a massive scale.
Still founder-led by Chairman and CEO Richard Fairbank, we dare to dream, disrupt and deliver a better way for our customers, the financial industry and for each other. Our goal is simple – bring ingenuity, simplicity and humanity to an industry ripe for change.
Capital One India Tech is one of the fastest growing technology teams across Capital One with a bold mission to build large scale platforms, consumer products and advanced capabilities leveraging data and AI /ML technologies. This is a senior individual contributor leadership role spanning across Capital One India Tech organisation reporting to the head of technology.
Distinguished Engineers are individual contributors expected to solve problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative software development 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.
Distinguished Engineers are 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
Responsibilities:
Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability
Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
Provide architectural guidance and designs for large scale cross-domain programs
Working with engineering teams to design and execute PoCs and hands-on code contribution/reviews where necessary
Develop and maintain an overall architecture for the domain, in alignment with divisional and enterprise guidelines
Promote a culture of engineering excellence and being well-managed, using opportunities to reuse and innersource solutions where possible
Lead the way in keeping both the technology and the technologists in the domain up-to-date with modern technologies
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
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree
At least 10 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
At least 8 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns
At least 3 years of experience with public or private cloud technologies
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's Degree in Computer Science
10+ years of experience of working with business leaders on the implications of architectural decisions
10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
4+ years building cloud native architectures, architecting enterprise applications on public cloud platforms and cloud ecosystems (AWS, GCP or Azure)
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
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