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Distinguished Engineer - Card Modernization

at Capital One Financial

📍 3 Locations Unknown 💰 $244K – $279K USD / year Posted April 15, 2026
Salary $244K – $279K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience executive
Exp. Years 7+ years
Education Bachelor's Degree
Category System Administration

Distinguished Engineer - Card Modernization will provide technical leadership and thought leadership to shape the future of banking in the cloud. The role focuses on enterprise architecture, design patterns, and delivering strong non-functional system outcomes while mentoring and guiding engineering excellence across teams.

  • 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 performance, scalability and operability
  • Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community

The role emphasizes enterprise architecture and design patterns, with ownership of non-functional system characteristics such as performance, scalability, and operability. It requires leading the quality of technical design and implementation and communicating solutions through code samples and written technical material.

The ideal candidate is a senior-to-executive level engineering leader with 7+ years of software engineering and solution architecture experience and 7+ years in enterprise architecture and design patterns. They demonstrate strong technical leadership by driving technical vision, decomposing complex problems into practical solutions, and ensuring performance, scalability, and operability across systems.

software engineeringsolution architectureenterprise architecturedesign patternsnon-functional system characteristicsperformancescalabilityoperabilityleadership through technical contribution
coding in commonly used languagesJavaPythonGoJavaScript/TypeScriptSwiftfull lifecycle of system development
Not specified
software engineeringsolution architectureenterprise architecturedesign patternsnon-functional system characteristicsperformancescalabilityoperabilitytechnical designtechnical implementationcode samplesblog postsmentoringengineering excellence
software engineeringsolution architectureenterprise architecturedesign patternsnon-functional system characteristicsperformancescalabilityoperabilitytechnical designtechnical implementationcode samplesblog postsmentoringengineering excellence
technical leadershiptechnical contributiontechnical vision evangelismcommunicationmentorshiprole modelingcross-organizational collaborationbalancing time across multiple projectsteaching and coachingoperational decomposition of complex problems
Industry Banking
Job Function Provide enterprise-level technical leadership for card modernization, guiding architecture and ensuring non-functional system excellence.
Role Subtype Platform Engineer
Distinguished EngineerCard Modernizationtechnical visionevangelizedecompose complex problemspractical and operational solutionstechnical designimplementationauthoritative expertnon-functional system characteristicsperformancescalabilityoperabilityengineering excellencementoring internal talententerprise architecturedesign patternssoftware engineeringsolution architecturecode samplesblog poststechnical leadership

Bachelor's Degree, At least 7 years of experience in Software engineering and solution architecture, At least 7 years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns

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