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# Sr. Director, Software Engineering - Finance Tech

- **Company:** Capital One Financial Corporation
- **Location:** Columbus, OH, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $286,200.0 - $326,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Android Software Development, Apple IOS, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Relational Databases, Perl (Programming Language), Apache Hadoop, Mobile Application Software, JSON, Python (Programming Language), Apache Maven, Node.Js, NoSQL, Ruby, Software Engineering, Extensible Markup Language (XML), ReactJS, Backend, AngularJS, Information Technology, People Soft, Restful APIs, Workday, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** July 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/E7118BFE22E342B1AA29C4D975DA787B/job/

## About the Role

* Bachelor's Degree
 * At least 9 years of experience in software engineering
 * At least 7 years of experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications:

 * Master's Degree in Computer Science or a Master's Degree in Software Engineering
 * 13+ years of experience in software engineering
 * 8+ years of experience in Agile practices
 * Concrete experience leveraging AI to accelerate productivity and automate manual business processes
 * Experience building/scaling high-throughput transaction matching engines, event-driven streaming architectures, and financial ledgers/ERP integrations (Workday/PeopleSoft)

## Description

As a Capital One Senior 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 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, Hadoop, Chef, Maven, iOS, Android, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure to name a few.

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 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


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