Director of Software Engineering - Enterprise Product and Platforms
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Director of Software Engineering - Enterprise Product and Platforms
Are you excited by the challenge of solving large-scale FinTech problems through innovative engineering and product management? Do you enjoy solving complex challenges with open source technologies in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment? We’re looking for an influential engineering leader to provide strategic direction on initiatives with significant bottom line impact.
This Director of Software Engineering position provides a considerable opportunity for ingenuity, as this individual will work as a key leader of an exceptionally talented team, to deliver cutting edge innovation at a massive scale.
We are looking for an independent thinker who makes convincing, evidence-based decisions. The ideal candidate will devise clear roadmaps to innovation and is comfortable thinking strategically and diving deep; a vanguard leader who can identify opportunities and leverage the team to translate them into live solutions, used by millions of happy customers.
What you will need to bring for this position:
Experience building and leading a team in the development and rapid delivery of next-generation digital products
A history of embracing and incubating emerging technology and open source products
The ability to seed and extend innovation into the greater organization to develop key talent
Technical Leadership: the ability to inspire your colleagues and teams to deliver quality software solutions
Recruit, motivate, mentor, and lead the best application engineering talent
Innovative thinking with a passion for problem-solving
Great attitude, team player and energy amplifier
Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities and technologies
Take ideas and concepts, and visualize them in ways such that they are communicated effectively and compellingly for internal leaders, partners and customers
Understanding of ways to lead a team developing in an Agile environment
Responsibilities:
Provide technical leadership to a dynamic team throughout the software development life cycle
Ability to work independently in a fast paced, unstructured environment
Ensure adherence to continuous improvement practices as required to meet quality and time to market imperatives
Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of team solutions
Bring a passion to stay on top of technology trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology groups, 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 7 years’ experience writing open source code in Java
At least 5 years’ experience in people management leading software and data engineering teams
At least 3 years of of experience architecting, designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise software applications and reusable software libraries on AWS cloud
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s Degree
9+ years’ experience in leading software or data engineering teams
3+ years experience driving data transformation initiatives
3+ years of building web APIs for high-throughput systems
Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.