Distinguished Software Engineer

Company: Capital One
Location: Vienna
Posted on: October 18, 2020

Job Description:

Towers Crescent (12066), United States of America, Vienna, VirginiaDistinguished Software EngineerAt Capital One, we believe in the values of Excellence and Doing the Right Thing. We are a technology-oriented company delivering financial products to market through modern technology and constant innovation at a massive scale.Looking for Engineers who are very passionate about engineering excellence and having a strong customer focus. Ideal candidates would be self motivated, with a keen inquisitive mind and are

• Deep technical experts and thought leaders that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices
• Visionaries, collaborating to solve Capital One s toughest technology challenges, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives of millions of our customers and associates
• Role models and mentors, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
• Supporters, both internally and externally, helping to elevate the Distinguished Engineering community and establish themselves as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities
• Expeditiously gain the trust and confidence of those around them, from hands on engineers to executives
• Engineering leaders who are customer focussed, decisive, understand priorities, maintain humility, and value feedback.Whether a member of our engineering or architecture teams, Distinguished Engineers are individual contributors expected to solve problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative delivery environment. In order to meet these demands, candidates should be influential engineering leaders with deep technology expertise, and a collaborative style that brings others into the decision-making process. S/He will significantly impact the Tech agenda within their organization and devise clear roadmaps to deliver next generation technology solutions across organizational boundaries.Responsibilities:
  • Design and develop cutting-edge solutions, using existing and emerging technology platforms
  • Leverage sound judgment and problem solving to tackle some of Capital One s most critical problems and connect the dots to broader implications of the work
  • Build awareness, increase knowledge and drive adoption of modern data technologies and data architecture patterns, sharing customer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in
  • Strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where others ideas can be heard and championed; leverage expertise to grow skills in the broader Capital One team
  • Promote a culture of engineering excellence and being well-managed, using opportunities to reuse and innersource solutions where possible
  • Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization
  • Operate as a trusted advisor for a specific technology, platform or capability domain, helping to shape use cases and implementation in an integrated manner
  • Be the guiding force for stakeholders in design and architecture discussions, helping the engineering teams make key technology choices, and staying associated with the use case through its development lifecycle
  • Lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting external talent to bolster Capital One s Tech talent
  • Keen understanding of Conversational AI powered virtual assistants
  • Bring in a larger context to 100+ software teams across multiple lines of business and guide their architecture evolution in response to business changes
  • Operate in a cutting edge cloud-native, microservices-driven architecture
  • Familiarity with Javascript Frameworks and libraries like React, Angular 8. Voice related technologies and ML with PythonBasic Qualifications:
    • Bachelor s Degree
    • At least 8 years of software development, solutions architect, or architect experience
    • At least 8 years of experience designing, developing, and architecting enterprise systems
    • At least 7 years of experience in application architecture, design patterns, and cloud technologiesPreferred Qualifications:
      • Masters Degree
      • AWS Solutions Architect Certification
      • 10+ years of experience with architectural patterns, building APIs, microservices, event streams, and high throughput systems
      • 10+ years architecting highly scalable and reliable back-end systems in production
      • 6+ years building cloud native architectures, architecting enterprise applications on public cloud platforms and cloud ecosystems including AWS, GCP or Azure
      • 2+ years experience leveraging DevOps and building CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, Chef, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation templates, GitHub, and SonarCapital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
        Associated topics: .net, application, backend, back end, c++, devops, matlab, sdet, software programmer, sw

Keywords: Capital One, Washington DC , Distinguished Software Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Vienna, DC