Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, VirginiaSr. Director Cyber Software Engineering
Capital One is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead, manage, mentor, and build extremely talented software engineering teams to deliver a game changing SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and SOAR (Security, Orchestration, Automation & Response) technologies and experience for our security teams. This person must have the ability to attract and recruit the industry’s best talent, and simultaneously have the technical chops to ensure that we build compelling, customer oriented solutions in an iterative methodology.
As a candidate for this role, you’re able to seamlessly switch from diving deep into technology with engineers to driving high level, strategic discussions around cloud roadmaps and security patterns. You are a naturally curious technologist and stay on top of emerging trends, including hands-on prototyping of nascent technologies. You are not afraid to question any existing processes and solutions, yet you display a keen sense of business value proposition and focus on the right priorities. You feel at home in the cloud and are an expert in designing cloud-native security solutions. You are equally comfortable with SIEM and SOAR technologies and can help blend use of vendor products with internally built capabilities.
You thrive in working in a fast paced, technologically forward leaning environment and are not afraid to push the boundaries of security capabilities.
You take a critical lens to buy vs. build decisions and are not afraid of implementing custom built or open source solutions alongside traditional vendor products. You also love to lead, manage, mentor, and recruit an extremely talented software engineering team to deliver a game changing customer experience across various customer touch points.
Responsibilities:
Manage application and software development to deliver technology products in support of Cyber capabilities
Manage a broad portfolio of diverse technology projects to provide web, mobile, and integration solutions
Recruit, motivate, mentor, and lead the best application engineering talent
Manage technology support teams to develop business applications, or ensure business applications have high availability and adequate performance, to include demonstrating year-over-year performance improvement
Must have deep technical credibility with engineering org, and ability to recruit top engineers
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree
At least 7 years experience in people management
At least 9 years of experience in Cyber Security
At least 5 years of experience in Cloud Technology (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform)
At least 5 years of experience in software engineering
Preferred Qualifications:
Masters Degree
7+ year of experience with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technologies
7+ years of experience with Security, Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) technologies
8+ years experience working with agile development and methodologies
1+ year experience building consumer-facing web and mobile software solutions
2+ years experience with cloud compliance
5+ years experience in perimeter and network capabilities
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): $321,500 - $366,900 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering
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
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 ; 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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