Director, Software Engineering

As a Capital One Director of Software Engineering in Financial Crimes Investigations and Anti-Money Laundering (AML), you will serve as a strategic leader responsible for driving the technical vision, execution, and culture of our Risk Tech organization.

In this role, you will be a trusted partner to business, product, and design stakeholders. You will lead the engineering strategy for critical systems—ranging from highly critical regulatory application to, investigator tools to, highly available microservices and ML/AI models. Your work will directly support our ability to detect, investigate, and prevent financial crimes through cutting-edge open source frameworks and AI techniques. You'll bring solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as: node.js, Java, GO, AngularJS, React, Python, REST, JSON, XML, Ruby, Perl, NoSQL databases, relational databases, Spark, Artifactory, Maven, iOS, Android, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure to name a few.

You will:

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers

• Actively attract, interview, and elevate top engineering talent. Mentor and guide the professional development of engineers, cultivating an environment where they can thrive

• Work with product leaders to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios

• 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

• Demonstrate high quality in operations, managing incidents, application performance, and resilience while avoiding technical debt

• Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & 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

• Continuously improve software engineering practices

• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments

• Guide stakeholders and teams to embrace strategic solutions that align with organizational goals for AML, ensuring solutions are built for long-term sustainability and scale

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years’ experience in software development

• At least 5 years’ experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• 10+ years’ of experience in software development

• 10+ years’ of experience in cloud computing (building applications in AWS)

• 5+ years’ of experience in Agile practices

• 3+ years’ of experience deploying machine learning models and LLMs

• Familiarity with Industry standards related to software and data engineering

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.

McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Director, Software Engineering

Richmond, VA: $244,700 - $279,200 for Director, Software Engineering

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.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at theCapital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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