# Director, Technical Program Management (API Strategies)

**Company**: Capital One
**Location**: Cambridge, MA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $230,400 - $263,000 for Director, Technical Program Management (Cambridge, MA)
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Director of Technical Program Management (TPM) on Capital One’s Enterprise Data team to execute high-priority enterprise-level initiatives and drive the implementation of Capital One’s future API strategies.

As a Director of Technical Program Management (TPM), you will lead programs that deliver on critical business goals and build large-scale products and platforms that will help Capital One customers have incredible experiences.

Responsibilities:

- Contribute to the organisation’s TPM / Delivery strategy: establish operating mechanisms, maturity models, and tooling that scale across portfolios

- Drive development of and alignment on program roadmap anchored in business objectives, definition of done, technical solutions, and sequencing of dependencies

- Lead cross-platform technical investment planning and ensure architectural alignment toward long-term platform convergence and reuse

- Serve as an executive-level escalation point for program risks, influencing technology leaders to make data-driven tradeoffs between speed, cost, and resiliency

- Ensure definition of measurable outcomes of platform success (availability, scalability, cost efficiency, developer velocity) and ensure delivery accountability across multiple engineering teams

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in a technical field

- At least 7 years of experience managing technical programs

Preferred Qualifications:

- 7+ years of experience designing and building solutions using distributed computing or service-oriented architecture (SOA)

- 3+ years of experience in building distributed systems and highly available services using cloud computing services / architecture - preferably using AWS

- 3+ years of experience building highly scalable products and platforms

- 3+ years of experience with Agile delivery

- 3+ years of experience delivering large and complex programs

- Experience in building systems and solutions within a highly regulated environment

- MBA or Master’s Degree in a related technical field (Computer Science, Software Engineering)

- PMP, Lean, Agile, or Six Sigma certification

- 3+ years of people management experience or influencing organisation as an IC

- Experience driving platform standardisation across multiple product portfolios or lines of business

- Track record of building TPM maturity (operating models, career frameworks, metrics) at scale within engineering organisations

- Exceptional communication and influence skills, capable of engaging deeply with technical teams while translating implications into compelling business narratives that persuade senior leadership

## Skills

### Required
- Technical Program Management
- Distributed Computing
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- Cloud Computing
- Agile Delivery

### Nice to have
- AWS
- Distributed Systems
- Highly Available Services
- Scalable Products
- PMP
- Lean
- Six Sigma
- MBA
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

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