Director of Software Engineering

Company: Capital One
Location: Plano
Posted on: October 19, 2020

Job Description:

Plano 3 (31063), United States of America, Plano, TexasDirector of Software EngineeringCapital One is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead, manage, mentor, and build an extremely talented team of engineers and technologists. Their teams will be responsible for developing the next generation of software supporting S&SRE (Stability and Site Reliability Engineering). Our TOC (Technology Operations Center) responds to high severity incidents and we are looking for this individual to lead efforts in building software around stability, and in some instances automating resolution, of these events.This leader will be responsible for shaping and driving the technical strategy in this space as well as leading teams, in an Agile environment, to execute on that vision. This leader 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 oriented solutions in an iterative methodology. Success in the role requires an innovative mind, a proven track record of delivering next generation software products, rigorous analytical skills, and a passion for creating market-leading software. Our Directors Are:

• Technologists: Strong engineering and technology background with the ability to learn quickly and go deep into our product and engineering solutions - will have a DevOps mindset
• Effective Communicators: Excellent listener; proven collaborator with senior leaders, peers and staff
• Partnership Attitude: Have the competencies to build very strong partnerships with other technology leaders that enable your team's ability to stay on the leading edge of industry solutions
• Curious: Hands-on, "roll up your sleeves" collaborative style of working
• Passionate: Bring energy and enthusiasm to the job and organization
• Bold: History of taking smart, calculated risks and aggressively leading through change
• Achievers: Consistently attain/exceed individual and team goalsYou will:
  • Lead, manage, and grow multiple teams of product focused software & data engineers
  • Embrace and incubate emerging technology and open source products across all platforms
  • Work to modernize our existing tech stacks and data platforms
  • Collaborate with internal teams to find areas of opportunities for automation and machine learning
  • Partner with architects, product owners, data professionals, and software & data engineers to drive the implementation of new applications
  • Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across full-stack development tools and technologies
  • Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments and provide operational support for those applications
  • Conduct design and code reviews to ensure compliance with standardsBasic Qualifications:
    • Bachelor s Degree
    • At least 8 years of experience in software engineering
    • At least 5 years of Agile experience
    • At least 4 years of people management experiencePreferred Qualifications:
      • Masters Degree
      • 10+ years of experience developing in Java, Python, or Scala
      • 8+ years of people management experience
      • 4+ years of AWS experience
      • 4+ years of Kubernetes experience
      • 2+ years of Go experienceCapital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position. Associated topics: .net, back end, c++, c#, developer, devops, php, python, sdet, sw

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