Director, Software Engineering (Network Platform)

Discover Financial
Plano, Richmond
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 269,100 - 307,200 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Collaboration","Innovation","Agility"]

Lead network transformation engineering by building and scaling teams of product-focused software engineers. Drive Capital One’s shift to an Intent Based Network architecture using Infrastructure-as-Code, accelerating automation and integrating AI for continuous optimization. Oversee full-stack engineering practices across Agile teams, ensure availability/resilience/scalability, modernize monolithic applications into microservices, and deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments.

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Director, Software Engineering (Network Platform)

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Job Summary

Lead network transformation engineering by building and scaling teams of product-focused software engineers. Drive Capital One’s shift to an Intent Based Network architecture using Infrastructure-as-Code, accelerating automation and integrating AI for continuous optimization. Oversee full-stack engineering practices across Agile teams, ensure availability/resilience/scalability, modernize monolithic applications into microservices, and deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments.
Location: Plano, Richmond
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product-focused software engineers.
  • •Mentor and guide engineers’ professional and technical development.
  • •Break down monolithic applications into microservice architectures and build new microservices.
  • •Accelerate automation and AI integration to drive continuous optimization of network transformation engineering.
  • •Lead efforts to design network architecture, deploy applications into AWS environments, and improve engineering practices across Agile teams.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 269,100 - 307,200 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s Degree.
  • •At least 7 years’ experience in software development.
  • •At least 7 years’ experience in network engineering and architecture.
  • •At least 7 years’ experience in advanced networking concepts in routing, switching and Wi-fi.
  • •At least 5 years’ experience in people management.
Experience:7+ yearsNetwork engineeringCloudSoftware development
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipMentoringCollaborationInnovationAgility
Tech Stack:Node.jsJavaGOAngularJSReactPythonRESTJSONXMLRubyPerlNoSQLRelational databasesSparkArtifactoryMavenIOSAndroidAWSInfrastructure-as-Code

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Sponsorship available.

Company Brief

Discover Financial
Provides consumer banking products, credit cards, personal loans, and payment services through the Discover brand. It operates a major U.S. financial network and serves individuals and merchants with lending and digital payment solutions.
Industry: Retail Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 10M to 25M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Riverwoods, United States
Founded: 1985
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