Distinguished Engineer - Cyber Intelligence

Center 3 (19075), United States of America, McLean, Virginia
Distinguished Engineer - Cyber Intelligence
As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud.
You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders. Our Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.
At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence, and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community.
Distinguished Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.
The Distinguished Engineer for Cyber Architecture is responsible for leading technology driven outcomes for the Information Security organization and the Enterprise. This role works with stakeholders across the enterprise to enable the secure operation of our technology infrastructure and is a technical authority on cloud and product security architecture.
If you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One's engineering teams, come join us in our mission to change banking for good.
Key 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
• Develop and lead opportunities to produce innovative, transformational and ultimately well-managed solutions that solve complex cybersecurity challenges. Proactively identifies areas of risk, and drives transformative actions. Brings clarity and collaboration to Capital One's toughest issues, advancing not only our execution, but our overall agenda. Work across teams and organizational boundaries
• Influence the development and adoption of enterprise technology standards and architecture within their domain
• Influence Cyber product roadmaps both within and outside their assigned domain
• Provide well grounded and actionable recommendations to senior leadership.
• Question assumptions, challenge beliefs, illuminate pitfalls, and foster a shared understanding across the engineering community
• Promote engineering excellence and is responsible for influencing and helping to drive the adoptions of best practices. Elevates engineering practices through automation, platforms, patterns, and reuse
• Help develop technical standards, policies and guidelines that ensure appropriate implementation and compatibility with company and security framework architectural and technical standards.
• Perform technical review and oversight of system architectures, participating in their design as needed, within their assigned domain. Lead the team through completion of architecture documentation and processes.
• Perform vendor architecture assessments against Cyber and Enterprise technical requirements and standards.
• Works across stakeholders and groups to resolve technology impediments to project delivery commitments.
• Participate as requested in the interview process and efforts to hire top talent

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 7 years of experience in technical solution architecture or software engineering
• At least 3 years of experience in cloud infrastructure services (AWS)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree
• 2+ years of experience in Cyber Intelligence
• 5+ years of technical information security experience
• 5 + years of Cyber-specific knowledge to develop new patterns and solution architectures
• 3+ years of experience with financial service compliance regulations (privacy, PCI)
• 3+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise grade security solutions based on open source projects
• 3+ years of experience with designing fully automated security solutions within a DevOps enterprise
• 5+ years of experience in defining strategy for security organizations in cross functional and matrixed enterprises
• CISSP or SANS certification
• Cloud computing certification

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website . Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City's Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia's Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.
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