Distinguished Engineer - Card Servicing

Distinguished Engineer - Card Servicing

As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud.

You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders. Our Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.

At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence, and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community.

Distinguished Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.
 

About the Team:  Capital One's credit card business is dynamic, fast-growing, and powered by innovative products and advantaged technology. Servicing is a critical differentiator across businesses today, and something we obsess over at Capital One given the importance of caring for customers' finances. Come join the team working to power exceptional customer and agent experiences at scale leveraging the latest tech to deliver realtime, intelligent, AI-enabled banking for millions.

If you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One's engineering teams, come join us in our mission to change banking for good.

 

Responsibilities:

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain

• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions

• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation

• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability

• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community

• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact

• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community

• Lead data-focused architecture and  integration strategy across multiple Capital One domains. Responsibilities will include defining standardized integration patterns, design/creation of data products and ensuring a focus on encryption, quality, and governance.

• Work with engineering teams to ensure creation/maintenance of scalable and performant real-time/near-real time data pipelines for analytical and ML/AI usage.

• Pair with teams building data-intensive API-based services to make intentional choices related to input/output (IO) operations, such as storage, retrieval, and data processing.

• Identify and act on opportunities for application reuse and consolidation, both within your domain and by providing or consuming capabilities from other domains or lines of business.

• Ensure architecture decisions are clearly reasoned, documented and communicated within your line of business - and across lines of business.

• Lead hands-on problem solving activities through the software delivery lifecycle - from planning to maintenance -  ensuring that all voices are heard and understood while driving to timely, realistic solutions.

• Promote an inclusive culture of engineering excellence and being well-managed - using opportunities to inner source solutions where possible.

• Influence Product/Tech/Cyber stakeholders to balance excellence with doing the right thing on key technical decisions.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years of experience in software or data engineering

• At least 3 years of experience in data architecture

• At least 2 years of experience building applications in AWS 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters’ Degree

• 9+ years of experience in software or data engineering

• 3+ years of data modeling experience

• 2+ years of experience with ontology standards for defining a domain

• 2+ years of experience using Python, SQL or Scala

• 1+ year of experience deploying machine learning models

• 3+ years of experience implementing big data processing solutions on AWS

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

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $263,900 - $301,200 for Distinguished Engineer

 

New York, NY: $287,800 - $328,500 for Distinguished Engineer

 

Plano, TX: $239,900 - $273,800 for Distinguished Engineer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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