Director, Software Engineering (Network Platform)

As a Capital One Director of Software Engineering, you'll work on everything from customer-facing web and mobile applications using cutting-edge open source frameworks, to highly-available RESTful microservices, to back-end Java based systems and Machine learning models using the hottest techniques in Big Data. You'll bring solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as: node.js, Java, GO, AngularJS, React, Python, REST, JSON, XML, Ruby, Perl, NoSQL databases, relational databases, Spark, Artifactory, Maven, iOS, Android, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure to name a few.

The Director, Software Engineering (Network Platform Development) will be responsible for Capital One network design and transformation, fundamentally shifting the Network infrastructure towards a proactive, Intent Based Network architecture framework, built on Infrastructure-as-Code principles.This leader will focus on accelerating automation, AI integration, innovation-first engineering discipline and engineering practice maturity. 

The Director will be responsible for building and scaling a specialized team focused on automating a complex technology landscape, standardizing engineering configurations, and consolidating overlapping vendor functions. By embedding built-in governance, maximizing technological efficiency, and integrating agentic AI technologies, this leader will drive continuous optimization—systematically upskilling the team toward advanced automation capabilities. This is a high-impact position for a transformative leader ready to own the network transformation engineering initiative and replace manual operational processes with cutting-edge network development and intelligent automation.

You will:

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers

• 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

• Continuously improve software engineering practices

• Work within and across Agile teams to select, 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 to improve the velocity of your and other teams

• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments

• Break existing monolithic applications into micro service architectures and build new microservices

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years’ experience in software development

• At least 7 years’ experience in network engineering and architecture

• At least 7 years’ experience in advanced networking concepts in routing, switching and wi-fi

• At least 5 years’ experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering

• 10+ years’ of experience in software development

• 10+ years’ of experience in advanced networking concepts in routing, switching and wi-fi

• 8+ years’ of experience in cloud and software-defined networking

• 5+ years’ of experience in Agile practices

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.