Senior Manager, Solutions Architect

About Capital One

Over 25 years ago, Capital One revolutionized the credit card industry with data and technology. Today, we are one of the most widely recognized brands in banking — serving more than 100 million customers across a diverse set of businesses.

Position

To be a great technology-driven company, Capital One is committed to providing outstanding products and experiences for our customers and clients. That means using the latest technology and systems to build, deploy and integrate applications that power our millions of external customers, thousands of internal workforce users, and numerous partner clients.

If you’re looking for a career opportunity involving modern technology solutions while using your strong technical, analytical and leadership skills to influence and make an impact - then you’re in luck!

Capital One is hiring a skilled Architect to join our exceptional team of talented technologists in Card Tech.  This Solutions Architect will span a body of business intent that allows Capital One to provide best- in-class experiences and services for our business cards and payments customers.   Their architectural insight and direction will help our engineers to accelerate business intent delivery and provide the “we’ve got your back” features our customers have come to expect. The right candidate will need to enjoy a fast paced work environment with a complex delivery structure that spans across Business Cards and Payments, Card Technology and different platform delivery teams.

If this sounds like an interesting challenge for you, apply immediately to start a conversation with us!

Responsibilities:  

• Perform hands-on architecture and design for solutions used primarily to enable the success of Capital One’s Business Cards and Payment portfolio, including new products, features and integrations

• Provide direction to integration efforts across a diverse portfolio of applications and technology platform

• Understand current state solutions, identify improvements, options and tradeoffs, define target state solutions and propose investment roadmaps

• Participate in integrated triage, solutioning and delivery of high value work for the domain

• Clearly articulate, document and sell architectural targets and reusable patterns, implemented for the domain across internal and external stakeholders

• Build and maintain relationships with executives, technical leaders, product owners, peer architects and other stakeholders to become a trusted advisor

• Engage and learn about the broader Capital One technology environment and target architectures, factoring these into solution architectures and recommendations

• Architect highly available, resilient solutions deployed across Capital One’s technology ecosystem spanning public cloud infrastructure and 3rd party-hosted implementations

• Define integrations among internal Capital One systems and with 3rd parties, including external partner clients, through APIs, data streams, and files

• Provide technical leadership to the design, development and implementation of targeted custom solutions by Software Engineers, through informed use of modern technology

• Define, structure and plan work independently, while maintaining alignment across dynamic teams and organizations

The successful candidate will:

• Possess excellent organizational and prioritization skills, and have the ability to quickly shift context and priorities

• Have a proven track record for leading and enabling technology, architecture and software engineering activities at enterprise scale

• Seamlessly react to changes in priorities and new requests while maintaining existing commitments

• Demonstrate strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision making skills 

• Exhibit mastery of facilitation and influence across teams, departments and divisions

• Be self-motivated and display an unwavering responsibility to deliver high quality results and commitments

• Effectively communicate and build relationships to interact, inform, influence and communicate with key stakeholders at all levels across the company

• Possess a keen attention to detail and a passion for Architecture, Software Engineering, Technology and Customer Experience

• Have an intellectual curiosity and interest to maintain and acquire new business, technology and architecture skills

Your qualification

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 8 years of experience in Software Engineering and Systems Architecture or Technology Solution design

• At least 2 years of experience creating solutions architectures in a public cloud (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering

• 5+ years of experience as a Solutions Architect in large/complex organizations

• 8+ years of experience in distributed systems, API, microservices, data processing, databases(relational, NoSQL, or time-series), streaming/messaging platforms, DevOps, resilience and stability

• Experience to engaging, influencing and driving initiatives by partnering with technology executives

• Experience mentoring software engineers or architects

• Ability to communicate at all levels in the organizations with required technical depth and breadth

• AWS or equivalent certifications (Cloud Practitioner, Solution Architect-Associate)

What we offer

Your wellbeing is our priority

Our benefits and total compensation package is designed for the whole person. Caring for both you and your family

• Healthy Body, Healthy Mind

You have options and we have the tools to help you decide which health plans best fit your needs

• Save Money, Make Money

Secure your present, plan for your future and reduce expenses along the way

• Time, Family and Advice

Options for your time, opportunities for your family, and advice along the way. It's time to BeWell.

Additional details

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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.