Description
We are seeking a Director of Technical Program Management (TPM) to join our Finance Technology team as an individual contributor. You will lead complex, multi-year integration initiatives, define large-scale integration strategies, and drive application convergence and data migration efforts that align with Capital One’s long-term technology vision.
As a Director of Technical Program Management (TPM), you will help lead programs that deliver on critical business goals and build large-scale products and platforms that will help Capital One customers have incredible experiences. In addition to the technical program, you will also work to pave the way for an expanding TPM discipline within the team, by leveraging your industry knowledge and experience to teach the organization what a great TPM can achieve.
Key responsibilities:
- Contribute to the organization’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
Basic qualifications:
- 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 organization as an IC
- Experience driving platform standardization across multiple product portfolios or lines of business
- Track record of building TPM maturity (operating models, career frameworks, metrics) at scale within engineering organizations
- Exceptional communication and influence skills, capable of engaging deeply with technical teams while translating implications into compelling business narratives that persuade senior leadership