Capital One
banking
Sr.DistinguishedEngineer,AcquisitionsPlatform&SREFoundations
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“Sr. Distinguished Engineer, Acquisitions Platform & SRE Foundations at Capital One. Skills: Software engineering, solution architecture, Enterprise architecture, design patterns, Javascript, TypeScript, SPA frameworks, API design, microservices architecture, SRE, platform evolution, high-availability, high-throughput environments, legacy systems decommissioning, cloud technologies. Define the future of banking in the cloud. Devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems”
What You'll Achieve.
Optimize business outcomes; Drive towards technology solutions; Put more Capital One cards in more wallets; Achieve statistical process control and operational maturity
Industry & Context.
Devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems; Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's Degree, 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 with Javascript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks
Nice to Have
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field, 10+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems architecture, or platform engineering, 5+ years of experience leading large-scale engineering organizations (50+ engineers across multiple management layers), Deep experience with API design, microservices architecture, and platform evolution in high-availability, high-throughput environments, Experience founding or leading SRE / production excellence functions, including SLO management, incident response, and reliability engineering, Demonstrated ability to partner with product management and business stakeholders to co-own product strategy — not just take tickets, Track record of decommissioning legacy systems and executing large-scale migrations without disrupting production traffic or team morale, 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc., 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support, 3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies
What You'll Do.
Define the future of banking in the cloud
Devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems
Optimize business outcomes
Drive towards technology solutions
Lead the technical agenda for the Card Acquisitions engineering organization
Set and deliver the technical agenda for foundational platforms and horizontal thread teams (SRE
Sustained Engineering
Make credit decisioning real time and intelligent
Drive an agenda to ship exponentially more products
Arm cross-functional partners with GenAI tools
experimentation frameworks
and configurable/extensible systems
Lead 300+ engineers across multiple directors
Grow high-potential senior leaders
Found a novel SRE function
Survey broad business domains
Craft a technical strategy
Dive deep into details
Deliver high-leverage projects
Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision
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 (performance
Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge
Handle several projects simultaneously
Act as a role model and mentor
Partner with product management to set an ambitious roadmap
Hands-on full-stack coding (frontend
Own the customer acquisitions data ecosystem
Arm analysts with high-quality data feeds
Enhance credit decision modeling
Lead the multi-year strategy to decommission legacy systems
Converge the acquisitions stack
Reduce maintenance overhead
Eliminate duplicative customer experiences
Stand up and scale a hybrid SRE + Engineering Productivity function
Achieve statistical process control and operational maturity
Design solutions that enable non-technical contributors to design
and deliver marketing experiments
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work alongside developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders; Partner with product management; Partner with business stakeholders; Arm cross-functional partners
Communication Scope
Creating clear and concise communications; Share knowledge both inside and outside the organization
Process & Methodology
Handle several projects simultaneously, Balancing your time to maximize impact, Executing large-scale migrations
Full Job Description
Sr. Distinguished Engineer, Acquisitions Platform & SRE Foundations As a Sr. Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a 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. 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. In this role, you will be the technical lead for the Card Acquisitions engineering organization, setting and delivering the technical agenda for the foundational platforms and horizontal thread teams (SRE, Sustained Engineering, Data, and Operations) that power how we match customers to the right credit product with the right terms. You will make credit decisioning real time and intelligent,
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