Director, Software Engineering

About the Role:

You’ll lead the teams in and drive the mission and vision of the Engineering organization focused on developing foundational technology capabilities that accelerate the pace of deliveries for customer-facing web and mobile applications. We have a diverse ecosystem of highly-available RESTful microservices and streaming real-time systems hosted on leading edge AWS Cloud assets. Our applications leverage open source frameworks and strong software engineering principles that offer a diverse array of challenging, fun, and impactful problems in scalability, monitoring, and automation capabilities. We are looking for a servant leader whose people-first approach and engineering mindset elevates the safe and collaborative culture of the teams and enables delivery of excellence.

If you are a technologist at heart with the ability and business acumen to partner with business clients in a way that inspires them to challenge the status quo and want to provide an inspiring and compelling working environment that allows your engineering team to push the digital boundaries within the Financial Services industry.

Your Responsibilities:

Lead with humility and grow talented engineers who are building the next level of engineering capabilities to enable the success of our valued customers

Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers in the organization

Raise accountability and strive to build a culture that continuously raises the bar for excellence

Build a strong sense of psychological safety on your teams and adjacent teams

Engage with stakeholders to define strategic imperatives and execute roadmaps that create original digital customer products and services

Work within and across agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack of industry leading development tools and technologies

Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal and external technology communities

Encourage innovation, foster diversity and inclusion, challenge the status quo, leverage cutting-edge technologies, and offer outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork

Partner with leaders across the company to architect, design and develop enterprise platforms, including large scale data and machine learning applications

Basic Qualifications:

At Least 10 years of experience in software engineering

At Least 7 years of experience in people management

At Least 3 years of experience leading multiple teams within an agile environment

At Least 1 year of experience managing other managers including talent development, performance management, team building and succession planning

Demonstrated experience and success pursuing best practices for teams of software engineers

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

13+ years’ of experience in software development

8+ years’ of experience in Agile practices

Experience with configuration management and infrastructure automation tools

Experience with Cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)

Experience leading horizontal DevOps/Developer tooling teams

Working at Capital One.

You’ll be empowered to take end-to-end ownership of your work and your career, backed by a high-performance, hybrid culture and holistic suite of benefits designed to support your whole self.

Take ownership of your own potential: Whether you’re looking to upskill, pivot into new business areas, or master your craft, you’ll have access to tools and mentorship to reach your potential and define your career trajectory.

Find your rhythm: We believe trust fosters the flexibility and autonomy required to balance personal needs with a focus on high performance. We support a hybrid model – with 3 days in the office per week – that gives room for both collaboration and personal commitments.

Benefits built for your life: We take a holistic approach to well-being, providing support for you and those who are most important to you. This includes: full coverage for spouses, domestic partners and dependents, a one-time Work From Home allowance to build your comfortable workspace, up to $3,000 in mental health coverage and up to $5,000 in annual tuition subsidies.

You’ll find that Capital One is committed to helping you thrive and evolve every step of the way.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

We embrace the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the candidate experience and streamline our recruitment processes. However, no hiring decisions are made using AI as every hiring decision is made by our hiring managers, business interviewers, and recruitment professionals. Our teams are equipped with training that empowers them to use AI responsibly.

Capital One Canada is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants and will meet the needs of those requiring reasonable accommodations.

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