Director, Solutions Architect - Capital One Software (Remote Eligible)

Company: Capital One
Location: New York
Posted on: September 26, 2022

Job Description:

Center 2 (19050), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Director, Solutions Architect - Capital One Software (Remote Eligible)

Capital One has taken a bold journey to build a technology company while operating in a complex, highly regulated business. We have built out a large engineering organization, moved to the cloud, re-architected our applications and data platforms, and embraced machine learning at scale.

Our AI/ML capabilities are now at the forefront of what's possible in banking. (e.g., Eno). As we uncovered new challenges along the way, we built and battle tested new capabilities to meet those needs. We've open sourced several of the software tools we built (e.g., Cloud Custodian, Hygieia) and forged new partnerships with other digital leaders (e.g., MSFT).

Through this journey, we've developed a suite of internal solutions uniquely designed to meet the challenges of a digital-first, cloud-first business at scale. The Capital One Software team is exploring how these internal solutions across cloud, data, governance, and applications could serve the needs of other companies born or built in the cloud.

The Capital One Software team is looking for experienced and collaborative pre-sales leaders to coach, grow, and partner with technically skilled, customer-facing Solutions Architects. In this role, you will need to be technically capable and credible in your own right as well as effective in shaping the customer and solutions-focused skills of your team. We are looking for leaders who love learning and introducing new technology in order to help colleagues and customers embrace and adopt new technology. We need innovative leaders who can look beyond the technology and consider the value our technology creates for our customers, and can help change how our technology is viewed to enable outcomes.

The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a Solutions Architect, technical pre-sales, or a similar role and experience managing a team of Solution Architects. You will have an ability to grow your leadership skills as well as diving deep into various hands-on solutions while developing new skills, so you can make strong contributions in architecture transformation discussions.

Responsibilities:

• Drive architecture/design reviews focused on business requirements
• Design, plan and manage architectural projects
• Lead team, provide coaching and development, and resource management
• Support architecture governance by providing subject matter expertise
• Analyze, define and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment
• Enforce company policies in areas of development methodology, architecture, security, change and configuration management, compliance, and HR
• Work with business partners, architects, and other groups to identify technical and functional needs of systems, and determine priority of needs
• Manage a team
• Manage to performance metrics Capital One is open to hiring a Remote Employee for this opportunity.
  
  Basic Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree
  • At least 7 years of experience with design, implementation, or consulting experience of distributed applications
  • At least 5 years of experience managing technical, customer facing solution architects
  • At least 5 years of experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking Preferred Qualifications:
    • Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology
    • Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
    • Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers
    • High level of comfort communicating effectively across internal and external organizations
    • Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
    • Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
    • History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
      
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