Sr| Director| Software Engineering | Card Loyalty

Job description
Position: SR. DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - CARD LOYALTY
Center 1 (1+052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia Sr. Director, Software Engineering - Card Loyalty

Capital One's Card Tech Engineering Organization is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead, manage, mentor, and build exceptional software engineering teams to deliver game changing technologies. The Sr. Director must have the ability to attract and recruit the industry’s best talent, and simultaneously have the technical chops to ensure that we build compelling, customer focused solutions in an iterative methodology.

As a candidate for this role, you’re able to seamlessly switch from diving deep into technology with engineers to driving high-level, strategic discussions. You are a naturally curious technologist and stay on top of emerging trends, including hands-on prototyping of nascent technologies. You are not afraid to question any existing processes and solutions, yet you display a keen sense of business value proposition and focus on the right priorities.

About the team: As a Sr. Director of Software Engineering on Capital One’s Loyalty team you will help us build high quality and resilient features of Capital One’s loyalty platform.

The Loyalty platform is an API-first, micro-services based platform run on AWS that allows consumers to earn and redeem loyalty benefits, including points. The Loyalty platform is at the heart of Capital One’s value prop and drives significant competitive advantage. You will be on the cutting edge of our serverless platform journey as we explore bold new technologies and innovative capabilities that optimize customer experience and sustainably deliver upon our industry’s stringent performance requirements.

From deeply understanding the Loyalty ecosystem to building and operating massive scale platforms that are highly resilient and performant, you will drive the organization towards continuous delivery of industry leading Loyalty experiences for Capital One customers.

You will:
• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team
• Work with product leaders to define the strategy, roadmap and destination architecture
• Manage a portfolio of diverse technology platforms and projects to build scalable applications that meet our customer needs
• Continuously improve software engineering practices
• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack of development tools and technologies
• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
• 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

Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least + years of experience in software engineering
• At least 7 years of experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications:
• Master’s Degree
• 13+ years of experience in software engineering
• 8+ years of experience in Agile practices
• 5+ years of experience building customer-facing applications
• Experience with Customer Loyalty solutions

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

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 Capital 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 committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive…