Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Capital One
AWSAzureCloudDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJavaScriptKubernetesMicroservicesNoSQLOpen Source+4 more
Executive Director – Software Engineering
GHX
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $161,200 - $230,300 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSCloudKubernetes
About the role
- Lead alignment of roles, strengthening US and India teams
- Drive Agile transformation, improving product delivery with clear accountability
- Establish an execution-first culture that delivers measurable progress against transformation goals.
- Represent engineering with strong executive presence in forums with peers and leadership.
- Build a strong team including hiring, coaching, and performance management
- Modernize legacy systems into cloud native architectures using AWS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Implement containerization, orchestration, and automation across the platform
- Improve release cadence to enable safe, on-demand deployments through robust CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions, trunk-based development, automated testing)
- Achieve high availability and performance to meet customer expectations.
- Embed automated testing and quality engineering practices into every delivery cycle
- Implement robust and efficient regression and performance testing solutions to accelerate developer velocity
- Ensure secure and scalable architectures proactively remediating vulnerabilities and eliminating anti-patterns
- Apply scalability patterns, eliminate anti-patterns, and enforce engineering discipline across the platform.
- Use DORA metrics to drive elite engineering performance
- Use data-driven metrics (velocity, lead time, deployment frequency, incidents, regressions, cost efficiency, and business value) to drive accountability
- Deliver roadmap outcomes that generate measurable revenue growth
- Partner across teams to manage costs, enforce proactive monitoring, and communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs and reduce infrastructure operating costs and enforce proactive monitoring strategies
- Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs with clarity through consistent, data-backed reporting
- Collaborate with Product, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Site Reliability Engineering, DevSecOps, Infrastructure, Solution Delivery, Implementation, and Finance to deliver modernization and growth
- Align with global engineering leadership to ensure consistent standards and shared best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Engineering or related field
- 20+ years of Software Engineering experience in a SaaS environment including 7+ years' in engineering or cloud architecture leadership
- Proven success leading large global teams (50+) including offshore development
- Deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Infrastructure-as-Code, containers, and automation.
- Demonstrated success migrating legacy systems to cloud-native architectures.
- Experience driving Agile transformation and improving deployment velocity and reliability.
- Strong technical and architectural judgment, with a track record of using metrics (DORA, incidents, regressions) to guide decisions.
- Executive presence and communication skills to lead transformation under pressure.
Benefits
- health, vision, and dental insurance
- accident and life insurance
- 401k matching
- paid-time off
- education reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
cloud architectureAgile transformationcontainerizationorchestrationautomationCI/CD pipelinesregression testingperformance testingscalability patternsdata-driven metrics
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationteam buildingcoachingexecutive presencecollaborationaccountabilityproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingperformance management
