# Senior Director, Ad Tech Engineering, Capital One Shopping Tech

**Company**: Capital One
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $286,200 - $326,700
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As a Senior Director, Full-stack Engineer at Capital One, you will lead high-performing engineering teams working to define the future of banking in the cloud.

You will partner closely with product managers, designers, architects and executive leaders to deliver scalable, customer-centric solutions.

Our Senior Directors are technical people leaders who drive engineering strategy, guide complex architectural decisions, and translate business goals into impactful technology platforms.

You will foster a culture of engineering excellence and inclusivity, balancing technical depth with empowered team leadership.

You will lead the way in building next-generation talent for Capital One Tech,mentoring managers and engineers, driving workforce strategy and actively recruiting top-tier talent.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product-focused software engineers

- Shape long-term technical strategy and architecture standards for enterprise platforms

- Partner with senior engineering and business leaders to align product roadmaps with scalable technology capabilities

- Drive talent strategy, ensuring succession planning, skill development, and equitable opportunity across engineering teams

- Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team

- Work with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios and develop market-driven application capabilities and customer experiences

- Continuously improve software engineering practices

- Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack development tools and technologies

- Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions

- Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community

- Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organisation, and diversity

- Work across the organisation to improve the velocity of your and other teams

- Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)

- At least 7 years of people management experience

- At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture

- At least 9 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns

- At least 9 years of experience in cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

- At least 9 years of experience in Data architecture

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

- 12+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture

- 12+ years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns

- 12+ years of experience in web technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks)

- 12+ years of experience in designing and building distributed HPC and ML systems

- 12+ years of experience in cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

- 12+ years of experience in data architecture

- 12+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, Scala

- 10+ years of experience with database and database management systems

- 12+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support

- 7+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualisation technologies

- 12+ years of experience with Networking protocols and integration with third-party distributed systems

- 7+ years of experience mentoring senior engineers and driving professional development within technical teams

- 3+ years of experience leading cross-domain architectural reviews or establishing coding and design standards

- Expertise in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges

**Salary Information:**

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are: Remote (Regardless of Location): $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr. Director, Full-stack Engineer McLean, VA: $314,800 - $359,300 for Sr. Director, Full-stack Engineer

**Benefits:**

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science
- software engineering
- solution architecture
- enterprise architecture
- cloud computing
- data architecture
- people management

### Nice to have
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
- web technologies
- distributed HPC and ML systems
- public cloud platforms
- Networking protocols
- agentic AI coding tools

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