Posted Date
1/22/2025
Description
Sr. Distinguished Engineer, Bank Tech
At 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.

Distinguished Engineers 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 on Capital One’s toughest issues, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives 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
• Evangelists, 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
• Leaders who gain the trust and confidence of those around them, from hands on engineers to executives

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. Distinguished Engineers will significantly impact the Tech agenda within their organization and devise clear roadmaps to deliver next generation technology solutions across organizational boundaries

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain an overall architecture for the domain, in alignment with divisional and enterprise guidelines
• Look broadly across the domain to ensure consistency in architecture across the domain
• Collaborate with other domain architects and the divisional architecture team to ensure consistency across multiple domains
• Identify opportunities for application reuse and consolidation, both within your domain and by providing or consuming capabilities from other domains or lines of business
• Represent and advocate on behalf of your domain to the larger architecture community, particularly the Divisional Chief Architect and peers in the architecture center of practice
• Guide the domain architecture team in problem solving activities, ensuring that all voices are heard and understood while driving to timely, realistic solutions
• Ensure architecture decisions are clearly documented, communicated, and maintained for all initiatives within the domain
• 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 domain
• Lead the way in keeping both the technology and the technologists in the domain up-to-date with modern architecture practices
• Protect against missed opportunities by providing or soliciting diverse points of view on how to solve our problems
• Develop rapid prototypes, evaluate new tools and provide recommendations

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 9 years of experience with application architecture and design patterns
• At least 7 years of experience with architectural patterns (SOA), building APIs, microservices, event streams, and high throughput systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering
• 10+ years of experience of working with business leaders on the implications of architectural decisions
• 5+ years building cloud native architectures, architecting enterprise applications on public cloud platforms and cloud ecosystems (AWS)
• 5+ years experience with DevOps or DevSecOps and building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Artifactory, Chef, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation templates, GitHub, and Sonar
• 4+ years of experience in developing enterprise grade platforms leveraging AWS Serverless Technologies
• 5+ years of experience in developing enterprise grade Dev/Ops services

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.
Richmond, VA: $280,600 - $320,200 for Sr Distinguished Engineer
New York, NY: $336,700 - $384,200 for Sr Distinguished Engineer
McLean, VA: $308,700 - $352,300 for Sr Distinguished Engineer
Philadelphia, PA: $280,600 - $320,200 for Sr Distinguished Engineer
Wilmington, DE: $280,600 - $320,200 for Sr Distinguished Engineer
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. 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 RecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com. 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 Careers@capitalone.com
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).
Sr. Distinguished Engineer, Bank Tech
At 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.

Distinguished Engineers 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 on Capital One’s toughest issues, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives 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
• Evangelists, 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
• Leaders who gain the trust and confidence of those around them, from hands on engineers to executives

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. Distinguished Engineers will significantly impact the Tech agenda within their organization and devise clear roadmaps to deliver next generation technology solutions across organizational boundaries

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain an overall architecture for the domain, in alignment with divisional and enterprise guidelines
• Look broadly across the domain to ensure consistency in architecture across the domain
• Collaborate with other domain architects and the divisional architecture team to ensure consistency across multiple domains
• Identify opportunities for application reuse and consolidation, both within your domain and by providing or consuming capabilities from other domains or lines of business
• Represent and advocate on behalf of your domain to the larger architecture community, particularly the Divisional Chief Architect and peers in the architecture center of practice
• Guide the domain architecture team in problem solving activities, ensuring that all voices are heard and understood while driving to timely, realistic solutions
• Ensure architecture decisions are clearly documented, communicated, and maintained for all initiatives within the domain
• 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 domain
• Lead the way in keeping both the technology and the technologists in the domain up-to-date with modern architecture practices
• Protect against missed opportunities by providing or soliciting diverse points of view on how to solve our problems
• Develop rapid prototypes, evaluate new tools and provide recommendations

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 9 years of experience with application architecture and design patterns
• At least 7 years of experience with architectural patterns (SOA), building APIs, microservices, event streams, and high throughput systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering
• 10+ years of experience of working with business leaders on the implications of architectural decisions
• 5+ years building cloud native architectures, architecting enterprise applications on public cloud platforms and cloud ecosystems (AWS)
• 5+ years experience with DevOps or DevSecOps and building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Artifactory, Chef, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation templates, GitHub, and Sonar
• 4+ years of experience in developing enterprise grade platforms leveraging AWS Serverless Technologies
• 5+ years of experience in developing enterprise grade Dev/Ops services

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.
Richmond, VA: $280,600 - $320,200 for Sr Distinguished Engineer
New York, NY: $336,700 - $384,200 for Sr Distinguished Engineer
McLean, VA: $308,700 - $352,300 for Sr Distinguished Engineer
Philadelphia, PA: $280,600 - $320,200 for Sr Distinguished Engineer
Wilmington, DE: $280,600 - $320,200 for Sr Distinguished Engineer
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. 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 RecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com. 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 Careers@capitalone.com
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).
Salary
280,600.00 - 320,200.00 Annual
Type
Full-tim

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain an overall architecture for the domain, in alignment with divisional and enterprise guidelines
• Look broadly across the domain to ensure consistency in architecture across the domain
• Collaborate with other domain architects and the divisional architecture team to ensure consistency across multiple domains
• Identify opportunities for application reuse and consolidation, both within your domain and by providing or consuming capabilities from other domains or lines of business
• Represent and advocate on behalf of your domain to the larger architecture community, particularly the Divisional Chief Architect and peers in the architecture center of practice
• Guide the domain architecture team in problem solving activities, ensuring that all voices are heard and understood while driving to timely, realistic solutions
• Ensure architecture decisions are clearly documented, communicated, and maintained for all initiatives within the domain
• 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 domain
• Lead the way in keeping both the technology and the technologists in the domain up-to-date with modern architecture practices
• Protect against missed opportunities by providing or soliciting diverse points of view on how to solve our problems
• Develop rapid prototypes, evaluate new tools and provide recommendation

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain an overall architecture for the domain, in alignment with divisional and enterprise guidelines
• Look broadly across the domain to ensure consistency in architecture across the domain
• Collaborate with other domain architects and the divisional architecture team to ensure consistency across multiple domains
• Identify opportunities for application reuse and consolidation, both within your domain and by providing or consuming capabilities from other domains or lines of business
• Represent and advocate on behalf of your domain to the larger architecture community, particularly the Divisional Chief Architect and peers in the architecture center of practice
• Guide the domain architecture team in problem solving activities, ensuring that all voices are heard and understood while driving to timely, realistic solutions
• Ensure architecture decisions are clearly documented, communicated, and maintained for all initiatives within the domain
• 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 domain
• Lead the way in keeping both the technology and the technologists in the domain up-to-date with modern architecture practices
• Protect against missed opportunities by providing or soliciting diverse points of view on how to solve our problems
• Develop rapid prototypes, evaluate new tools and provide recommendation