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Distinguished Engineer (Card Tech)

AI summary of the role

This Distinguished Engineer role leads the technical vision and architecture for Capital One's Card Core Accounts and Transactions organization, driving a platform transformation from legacy systems to modern cloud-native stacks.

What you’ll do

  • Define and drive technical strategy and roadmap for Credit Card Core systems and platforms.
  • Architect and build highly secure, scalable systems enabling server-driven product experiences across devices.
  • Design high-throughput, low-latency services handling millions of concurrent requests.
  • Architect enhanced Observability and Monitoring frameworks for rapid issue detection and resolution.

What you’ll bring

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • At least 7 years of experience in Software engineering and solution architecture
  • At least 7 years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns
  • At least 5 years of experience developing large scale distributed systems

Technologies

AWS · Microsoft Azure · Google Cloud · Java · Python · Go · distributed systems · observability · monitoring

Source and classification

Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:

platform transformation, migrating from legacy systems to a modern technology stack. In this role, you will be responsible for architecting the target state application architecture and providing technical support to the development teams. A continuous focus will be placed on building and improving our platforms to guarantee best-in-class security, performance, maintainability, and usability. 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. Key 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,
More from the job description

Distinguished Engineer (Card Tech) 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 bo [... source excerpt omitted ...] t the organization. Card Core Accounts and Transactions is an organization within Card Technology. This team manages highly available and scalable critical services essential for customer-facing applications. We are currently executing a platform transformation, migrating from legacy systems to a modern technology stack. In this role, you will be responsible for architecting the target state application architecture and providing technical support to the development teams. A continuous focus will be placed on building and improving our platforms to guarantee best-in-class security, performance, maintainability, and usability. If you are ready to provide thought leadership and [... source excerpt omitted ...] form innovation. Leverage proven leadership in driving platform strategy, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and influencing technical direction across the company. Basic Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree At least 7 years of experience in Software engineering and solution architecture At least 7 years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns At least 5 years of experience developing large scale distributed systems At least 3+ years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly

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