Distinguished Architect - Card Partnerships

Company: Capital One
Location: Ozone Park
Posted on: October 24, 2024

Job Description:

77 West Wacker Dr (35012), United States of America, Chicago, IllinoisDistinguished Architect - Card PartnershipsAs 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.

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. In addition to working with integrated Partnerships business, technology and operations teams, you will contribute to architecture across broader Card and Enterprise teams, which are heavily leveraged throughout Partnerships solutions.

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


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 leaning 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 EngineerCandidates 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.If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Careers@capitalone.com

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