Distinguished Architect

Capital One Distinguished Architect

As a Distinguished Architect at Capital One, you will be 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 Architects are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems.

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, striking 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 Architects 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.

In this role, you will provide technical leadership for defining, architecting, and investing in high-leverage technology solutions to power our Card Partnerships business segment, which provides Cobrand and Private Label Credit Card products through relationships with leading client companies across multiple industries.

You will contribute to architecture across broader Card and Enterprise teams, which are heavily leveraged throughout Partnerships solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
• 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 definition and alignment of solutions architecture design across multiple platforms, domains, and stakeholders
• Lead trade-off and impact analysis work for hard-to-change technical decisions, and manage technical conflict
• Demonstrate thought leadership and strategy in collaboration with delivery and product partners
• Prepare and present solutions in Architecture Review Boards, and in various discussions with product, platform, and architecture stakeholders
• Present work products and strategies to product managers, technology leadership across Capital One
• Represent architecture responsibilities as the primary architecture point of contact for a set of systems, domains, and business needs

The Successful Candidate Will:

• Effectively communicate and build relationships to interact, inform, influence, and communicate with key stakeholders at all levels across the company
• Exhibit mastery of facilitation and influence across teams, departments, and divisions that seeks out and invites alternate opinions while building consensus
• Enjoy the camaraderie, debates, and learning that comes from working with a team of passionate technologists
• Identify and explain the near- and long-term impacts and implications of decisions
• Possess excellent organizational skills and ability to multitask, while quickly shifting context and priorities as needs evolve
• Have a proven track record for leading and enabling technology, architecture, and software engineering activities at enterprise scale
• Be self-motivated and display an unwavering responsibility to deliver high-quality results and commitments
• Possess a keen attention to detail and a passion for Architecture, Software Engineering, Technology, and Customer Experiences
• Have an intellectual curiosity and interest to maintain and acquire new business, technology, and architecture skills

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 7 years of experience in enterprise architecture, software architecture, business architecture, or application architecture

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in technology architecture or software engineering
• 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support
• 2+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies

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.

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $274,800 - $313,600 for Distinguished EngineerIllinois (Hybrid On-Site): $256,200 - $292,400 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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