Capital One · 5 days ago
Distinguished Engineer, Cyber Architecture
McLean, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$245K/yr - $279K/yr
7+ years expCapital One is a financial services company aiming to redefine banking in the cloud. As a Distinguished Engineer in Cyber Architecture, you will lead technology-driven outcomes for the Information Security organization, focusing on cloud and product security architecture while mentoring and building a community of technical experts.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability
Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
Define and drive the technical roadmap for our Endpoint Security, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Cryptography Services
Build capabilities to automate manual workflows within these programs to reduce toil and drive operational excellence and platform stability
Identify opportunities to develop custom software to build innovative cybersecurity solutions
Engage with the broader enterprise Distinguished Engineer community to ensure that security tooling is deeply integrated into the software development process
Create frameworks to continually evaluate and elevate our engineering maturity, and support growth and development of junior talent through formal and informal mentorship
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
At least 3 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Preferred
Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
10+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
3+ years of experience in cybersecurity
3+ years of experience in AWS cloud security services
3+ years of experience with financial service compliance regulations
CISSP or SANS certifications
3+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise grade security solutions based on open source projects
3+ years of experience designing fully automated security solutions within a fully DevOps enterprise
Benefits
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
Company
Capital One
Capital One is a financial services company that provides banking, credit card, auto loan, savings, and commercial banking services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.45BKey Investors
Berkshire Hathaway
2025-09-11Post Ipo Debt· $2.75B
2025-01-30Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2023-05-15Post Ipo Equity· $954M
Leadership Team
Daniel Arellano
Senior Vice President, Business Cards and Payments
Justin Burch
Senior Vice President
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