Director, Solution Architecture
- Employer
- Capital One
- Location
- McLean, Virginia
- Closing date
- Jul 24, 2021
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- Industry
- Financial Services and Banking
- Function
- Finance
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Director, Solution Architecture
The Associate Experience Technology Team is a fast-paced and passionate team that is responsible for improving the Associate Experience across Capital One by creating enterprise solutions that are simple, secure and seamless. We design and deliver software solutions across a diverse technology landscape that consists of enterprise SaaS applications, OS Platforms, Web and Mobile applications and custom built enterprise solutions.
As a Director, Solution Architecture, you will lead a horizontal team that partners alongside product engineering teams to build and deliver innovative solutions at an enterprise scale. Serving as a technical voice, you will be responsible for providing architectural and cyber security guidance to our Engineering, Product, Data, and Design teams as they plan and build out new products. You will also be involved in continuously helping to improve our existing suite of products to ensure security, performance, maintainability, and usability are best-in-class.
About you
- Passionate about security and architecture across a broad range of systems and technologies
- Lead by influence and enjoy engaging in healthy debates to arrive at creative solutions with a vast array of technologists and leaders
- Recognize the impact of near and long term decisions and can explain it to technical and non-technical audiences
- Excel at building and leveraging trust with technical teams and leaders to gain alignment
- Always seek to elevate the user experience through innovative solutions
Responsibilities
- Establish architecture and security strategic direction for our product landscape, including standards and frameworks that are aligned with overall business strategy
- Collaborate with Information Security Officers, architecture, product owners and software engineers to drive implementation of new applications and features.
- Assess emerging technologies to determine where they fill gaps, overlap with existing solutions or extend capabilities.
- Contribute to the evolution of the architecture practice aligned with security and technology organization strategy and objectives
- Review existing and proposed architectures, identify security design gaps, and recommend changes or enhancements
- Participate in solution architecture design; lead architecture and security efforts assisting with the integration and initial implementation of solutions
- Leverage complex technical and security challenges to drive innovation
- Recruit, motivate, mentor, and lead talent to be their best
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- At least 7 years of experience in software engineering or data engineering
- At least 5 years of people management experience
- At least 5 years experience in securing a public cloud environments and services (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- At least 3 years experience utilizing Agile methodologies
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years experience with application security, vulnerability management, or data loss prevention
- 3+ years experience in macOS, Windows and mobile device management technologies
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) or AWS Certification
Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
Company
We Don’t Only Think Big Things—At Capital One, We Do Big Things.
You’re dedicated to your career. You deserve professional satisfaction and personal fulfillment. You belong at Capital One.
Here, every day brings another chance to do impactful work that matters: helping millions of customers confidently manage their money, building stronger communities and delivering truly disruptive tech. You’ll give your all alongside some of the brightest, most resilient people in the industry—and in return, you’ll enjoy the growth opportunities, support, flexibility and benefits you need for an exhilarating life both on and off the job.
Be inspired. Be yourself. That’s #LifeAtCapitalOne.
Creating a Culture of Belonging
At Capital One, we value diversity, inclusion and belonging at our core. We’re building a place of belonging—where everyone can feel seen, heard, valued and free to be their authentic selves. We want to be a place of opportunity—where associates from all backgrounds innovate for our customers and communities, and build meaningful, fulfilling careers.
We endeavor to be a welcoming and inspiring place for all. We seek and embrace diversity. And we’re committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce, focused on increasing the representation of underrepresented groups, strengthening our culture of inclusion and belonging and harnessing our scale to invest in our communities.
We’re focused on three core principles to advance diversity, inclusion and belonging across Capital One:
Create a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive and innovate
Attract and develop talent from all backgrounds and experiences
Ensure our systems and programs promote fairness and equity
Get a career with more at Capital One. Discover it for yourself today.
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, race, color, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, disability or other protected status.
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