Senior Director - Software Engineering
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 28, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 28, 2026. Capital One scores B on the Alion truth index.
Team Description:
The Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team is at the center of bringing our vision for AI at Capital One to life. Our Generative AI models and platforms empower teams across Capital One to enhance their products by composing powerful, safe and explainable AI capabilities such as agentic workflows, and shared services such as guardrails, observability and evals coupled with foundational model power of open-weight and proprietary frontier models. The team is also delivering capabilities on top of the platform to optimize the software development life-cycle to dramatically enhance developer productivity and model-development life cycle to improve time-to-market of machine learning models.
About the role:
As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at Capital One, you will lead high-performing engineering teams working to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will partner closely with product managers, designers, architects and executive leaders to deliver scalable, customer-centric solutions. Our Senior Directors are technical people leaders who drive engineering strategy, guide complex architectural decisions, and translate business goals into impactful technology platforms.
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 foster a culture of engineering excellence and inclusivity, balancing technical depth with empowered team leadership. You will lead the way in building next-generation talent for Capital One Tech - mentoring managers and engineers, driving workforce strategy and actively recruiting top-tier talent.
Senior Directors are expected to lead through technical vision, operational rigor and strategic alignment. You will serve as a key owner for your domain's technical health, delivery velocity and system resilience. While shaping long-term technology strategy and platform roadmaps, you will inspire a culture of continuous learning, innovation and high-impact delivery across your organization.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers
- Shape long-term technical strategy and architecture standards for enterprise platforms
- Partner with senior engineering and business leaders to align product roadmaps with scalable technology capabilities
- Drive talent strategy, ensuring succession planning, skill development and equitable opportunity across engineering teams
- Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team.
- Work with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios and develop market-driven application capabilities and customer experiences
- Continuously improve software engineering practices
- Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack development tools and technologies
- Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
- Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, 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
- Work across the organization to improve the velocity of your and other teams
- Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field such as Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics or Engineering
- At least 7 years of people management experience
- At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
- At least 9 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns
- At least 9 years of experience in cloud computing including AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
- At least 9 years of experience in Data architecture, including expertise in data modeling, scalable data pipelines, data warehousing and real-time data processing ecosystems
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
- 12+ years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns
- 12+ years of experience in web technologies including JavaScript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks
- 12+ years of experience in designing and building distributed HPC and ML systems
- 12+ years of experience in cloud computing including AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
- 12+ years of experience in Data architecture, including expertise in data modeling, scalable data pipelines, data warehousing and real-time data processing ecosystems
- 12+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Go, Java, JavaScript,TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, Scala
- 10+ years of experience with database and database management systems
- 12+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
- 10+ years of experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, cloud-based productivity tools or virtualization technologies
- 12+ years of experience with Networking protocols and integration with third party distributed systems
- 7+ years of experience mentoring senior engineers and driving professional development within technical teams
- 3+ years of experience leading cross-domain architectural reviews or establishing coding and design standards
- Expertise in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at [email protected]. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.
For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to [email protected]
Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.
Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).