Director, Software Engineer Finance Tech - (Remote Eligible)

Capital One is a financial services company, and they are seeking a Director of Software Engineering for their Finance Tech team. The role involves leading teams to build advanced data infrastructure and collaborating with business leaders to implement innovative technology solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, manage, and grow multiple forward-thinking teams of software, data, and platform engineers
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation
• Partner with product managers, data scientists, and system architects to translate complex business strategies into executable technical intent
• Continuously elevate engineering practices, pioneering spec-driven and intent-driven architectures to minimize friction and maximize build quality
• Design, implement, and support scalable backend solutions, effectively integrating custom data pipelines with COTS platforms and custom software capabilities, using advanced CI/CD frameworks
• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of analytics engines and data infrastructure
• Bring a passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with emerging agentic frameworks, participating in technology communities, and mentoring members of the broader engineering ecosystem
• Encourage innovation, the implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-the-box thinking, and highly autonomous, distributed teamwork
• Collaborate across engineering organizations to optimize system throughput, streamline complex dependencies, and accelerate the delivery of intelligent capabilities
• Lead efforts to design and deploy highly available, cloud-native solutions, data systems, and automated frameworks into AWS environments

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering
• At least 5 years of experience in people management
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or Master's Degree in Software Engineering
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering
• 5+ years of experience in Agile practices
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion