Capital One · 17 hours ago
Sr. Director, Software Engineering (Security Evolution)
Plano, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$315K/yr - $359K/yr
9+ years expCapital One is a financial services company, and they are seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to work on security platforms and software development. The role involves leading multiple teams, mentoring engineers, and improving software engineering practices while focusing on evolving security capabilities.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers
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
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-organization, and diversity
Work across to improve the velocity of your and other teams
Formulate downstream strategy for what we need to do to evolve our security infrastructure based on our key business needs - automated deployments, automated controls, controls simplification and technical layering simplification, restricted perimeter, DoS/DDoS protection, WAF, BoT services, api security
Develop roadmap along-side peer groups
Immediately drive pilot for 12-month defined ‘evolved restricted perimeter’
Advise on changes to vendor roadmaps and COF’s choices (driving reselection if needed) of vendor software, hardware, etc
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
At least 9 years' experience in software development
At least 7 years' experience in people management
Preferred
Master's Degree in Computer Science or a Master's Degree in Software Engineering
13+ years' of experience in software development
8+ years' of experience in Agile practices
Benefits
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
Recent News
2026-02-05
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