Director, Software Engineering (Network Platform Development)

As a Capital One Director of Software Engineering youll work on everything from customer-facing web and mobile applications using cutting-edge open source frameworks to highly-available RESTful microservices to back-end Java based systems and Machine learning models using the hottest techniques in Big Data. Youll bring solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as: 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.

The Director Software Engineering (Network Platform Development) will be responsible for Capital One network design and transformation fundamentally shifting the Network infrastructure towards a proactive Intent Based Network architecture framework built on Infrastructure-as-Code leader will focus on accelerating automation AI integration innovation-first engineering discipline and engineering practice maturity.

The Director will be responsible for building and scaling a specialized team focused on automating a complex technology landscape standardizing engineering configurations and consolidating overlapping vendor functions. By embedding built-in governance maximizing technological efficiency and integrating agentic AI technologies this leader will drive continuous optimizationsystematically upskilling the team toward advanced automation capabilities. This is a high-impact position for a transformative leader ready to own the network transformation engineering initiative and replace manual operational processes with cutting-edge network development and intelligent automation.

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 managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios

• Continuously improve software engineering practices

• Work within and across Agile teams to select 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

• 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

• Work across to improve the velocity of your and other teams

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

• Break existing monolithic applications into micro service architectures and build new microservices

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree

• At least 7 years experience in software development

• At least 7 years experience in network engineering and architecture

• At least 7 years experience in advanced networking concepts in routing switching and wi-fi

• At least 5 years experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Computer Science or a Masters Degree in Software Engineering

• 10 years of experience in software development

• 10 years of experience in advanced networking concepts in routing switching and wi-fi

• 8 years of experience in cloud and software-defined networking

• 5 years of experience in Agile practices

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