Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Learning Management Systems
Mclean, VA

Job Description

7900 Westpark Drive (12131), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

At Capital One, we're building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.

Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Learning Management Systems

The HR Tech team is looking for a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to join the team in McLean, VA. In this role, you will influence decision makers with your own technological ideas and innovations. You will be at the forefront of cloud adoption and emerging technologies.

Capital One's HR Technology team develops the best-in-class strategy and solutions for key internal business domains, provides key capabilities for critical cross-organization programs, and proves out emerging technologies and DevOps best practices.

As a Capital One Senior Manager, Software Engineering, you'll be using cutting-edge open source frameworks, all in on the cloud. You'll bring solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as Spark, Scala, Java, Node.js, REST, JSON, HTML / HTML5, CSS / SCSS, Selenium, PhantomJS, NGINX, Express, Chef, Docker, Git / Github. You will be fully utilizing AWS with services such as S3, EC2, Lambda, Route53, CloudFront, API Gateway, and much more.

To succeed, you:

* Demonstrate both effective people management and disciplined software engineering leadership.


* Work with product owners to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios - continuously improving software engineering practices.


* Lead Agile teams to design/implement cutting-edge technologies, and support technical solutions across a full-stack with operational disciplines.


* Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, and encourage innovation.


* Engage in internal & external technology communities, and mentor members of the engineering community.



Responsibilities:

* Contribute code to the development of multi-platform application systems, through local builds and deployments as well as the CI/CD environments and through to production.


* Work hand in hand with other members of the HR Technology team in the implementation of a new LMS (Learning Management System) - Docebo.


* Ensure adherence to Agile team norms and coding standards, software design best practices, architecture strategy, and intent.


* Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code adheres to development standards.


* Coach and mentor developers as needed to build code to adhere to standards.


* Collaborate with other tech teams and product owners for delivering optimal technology solutions which will delight customers.


* Take ownership of the long-term direction of the application.


* Work with business partners, architects, and other groups to identify technical needs of systems, and determine the priority of needs.


* Enforce company policies in areas of development methodology, architecture, security, change and configuration management, and compliance.


* Code, test and implement custom solutions with a "You Build, You Own" philosophy.


* Coordinate and enforce coding standards, performance and ATDD testing, automated pipeline deployments of solutions for the overall team.


* Responsible for key system design and integration decisions, and for communicating decisions to individuals implementing the system.



Basic Qualifications:

* Bachelor's Degree or military experience


* At least 8 years of software development experience


* At least 3 years of experience with CI/CD of any Cloud-based application


* At least 2 years of experience with AWS


* At least 1 year of experience deploying, monitoring and maintaining a Cloud-based application



Preferred Qualifications:

* Master's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering


* 10+ years of software development experience


* 5+ years of experience building software in enterprise/commercial environments


* 4+ years of experience in People Management


* 3+ years of experience programming in Java, JavaScript, Python, or Node.js


* 3+ years of experience with CI/CD technologies - Jenkins, CircleCI, Docker


* 1+ years of experience with open source and commercial technologies/tools


* 1+ year of experience with Linux, server automation, and scripting


* 1+ year of experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, ELK, AppDynamics


* 1+ year of experience with an infrastructure test automation tool


* 1+ year of experience working with Agile Development Practices


* 1+ year of experience with MySQL, Postgres, or ElasticSearch



Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.