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# Director, Technical Program Manager (Core TPM Tower)

- **Company:** Capital One Financial Corporation
- **Location:** Richmond, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $230,400.0 - $263,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Cloud Platform System, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.entertainmentworkers.com/job.asp?id=3386416833&tx=JL11003LFU&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Strong technical backgrounds (ideally building highly scalable platforms, products, or services) with the ability to proactively identify and mitigate technical risks throughout delivery life-cycle
 * Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
 * Excellent problem solving and influencing skills
 * A quantitative approach to problem solving and a collaborative implementer to holistic solutions; a systems thinker
 * Experience as a TPM leader to grow and develop a team of TPMs, while also building the foundations for the TPM practice
 * Ability to simplify the technically complex and drive well-educated decisions across product, engineering, design, and data science representatives
 * Deep focus on execution, follow-through, accountability, and results
 * Exceptional cross-team collaboration; able to work across different functions, organizations, and reporting boundaries to get the job done.
 * Highly tuned emotional intelligence, good listener, and deep seated empathy for teams and partners, * Bachelor's degree
 * At least 7 years of experience managing technical programs, * 5+ years of experience designing and building data-intensive solutions using distributed computing
 * 3+ years of experience in building distributed systems and highly available services using cloud computing services or architecture
 * 3+ years of experience with site reliability engineering, observability, incident response, or disaster recovery programs at scale
 * 3+ years of experience driving resilience or reliability engineering initiatives - including chaos engineering, failure mode analysis, or run-the-engine reduction programs
 * 3+ years of experience with Agile delivery
 * 3+ years of experience delivering large and complex programs - where you own the business or technical vision, collaborate with large cross-functional teams, secure commitments on deliverables and unblock teams to land business impact
 * Experience in building systems & solutions within a highly regulated environment
 * MBA or Master's Degree in a related technical field (Computer Science, Software Engineering) or equivalent experience



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