Senior Manager, Solutions Architect

Company: Capital One
Location: Hanover
Posted on: November 13, 2024

Job Description:

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, VirginiaSenior Manager, Solutions ArchitectTo 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




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)



Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified 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.

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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