Senior Distinguished Engineer - Microservices Architecture

Position Overview

As a Sr. Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers, and people leaders by transforming critical applications to a microservice-based approach. Our Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.

At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate, and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community.

Distinguished Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms, and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts, and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions.
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability, and operability.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact.
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community.
• Provide architectural guidance and designs for large-scale cross-domain programs.
• Work with engineering teams to design and execute PoCs and hands-on code contribution/reviews where necessary.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture.
• At least 7 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns.
• At least 3 years of experience with public or private cloud technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience working with business leaders on the implications of architectural decisions.
• 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• 4+ years building cloud-native architectures, architecting enterprise applications on public cloud platforms and cloud ecosystems (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Employment Type

• Full time

Salary Information

• Plano, TX: $280,600 - $320,200

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

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked. Candidates hired to work in other locations will be provided with salary information relevant to their location.

Location Type

• [Information not specified]

Company Information

• Capital One is a financial services company committed to transforming banking in the cloud. We foster a culture of engineering excellence and diversity of thought.