Director, Software Engineering

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, SQL, DevOps, Azure, AWS, Machine learning techniques, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Job Description

Since 2014, Capital One Canada’s software studio has grown from a team of 10 to a team of over 250. We’re passionate about what we do, and we’re always on the lookout for people who want to make a difference in the world of credit through technology. We’re obsessed with doing the right thing, and we achieve that by finding innovative ways to better serve our customers.

Working with us.

How do we do things at Capital One? We listen — to our people, and to our customers. We change with the times, currently working remotely with plans to move to a flexible hybrid model (remote and/or in-office) in the future. A flexible hybrid working model is one that creates the opportunity to match the work that we do to the environment that best supports that work. We recognize that everyone has a unique working pattern so we’re open to discussing flexible working arrangements that will best accommodate you.

At Capital One Canada the health and safety of our associates, customers and communities are our highest priorities and as a result, our offices are currently closed. When and how we transition from virtual to flexible hybrid will be guided by local government and health authority guidance.

We want our associates to have a voice, and we’re committed to diversity, inclusion and belonging. We give everyone a seat at the table, bringing together different perspectives, backgrounds and experiences to help challenge the status quo and create the best outcomes for everyone.

We’re focused on helping associates live well – physically, financially and emotionally. When you join us, we support you and those who are most important to you, offering full coverage for spouses, domestic partners and dependents. We’ve designed our benefits program to be flexible, comprehensive and consistent across our organization. From health and fitness centres and discounts, to training and professional development programs – and much more – you’ll discover that Capital One is committed to helping you live your best life.

A day in the life of a Capital One Director of Software Engineering.

You'll lead the teams in and drive the mission and vision of the Engineering Excellence and Enablement organization focused on developing foundational technology capabilities that accelerate the pace deliveries for customer-facing web and mobile applications. We are excited to write the next chapter of engineering excellence through investment in Site Reliability, Developer Experience and Developer Tooling to elevate the technology offerings and business opportunities. 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 true 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.

At Capital One, we recognize the competitive advantage of psychological safety and ensure all our teams thrive. Bring yourself, your passions, curiosity, an open mind, and experiences and let’s have a chat!

Responsibilities:

• Lead with humility and grow talented engineering who are building the next level of engineering capabilities in Developer Experience, Developer Tooling, and Site Reliability
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers in your teams
• 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, and mentor other members of the engineering community
• Encourage innovation, foster diversity and inclusion, challenge the status quo, and leverage cutting-edge technologies, and offer, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization
• Leverage and and contribute to the open source community
• 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
• Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Qualifications:

(Don’t have them all? Don’t worry. We’ll help you develop the right skills for the job)

• 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