Senior Director- Cyber Distinguished Engineer

Center 2 (19050), United States of America, McLean, VirginiaSenior Director- Cyber Distinguished EngineerDistinguished Engineers are individual contributors who strive to be diverse in thought so we visualize the problem space. At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. Distinguished Engineers will significantly impact our trajectory and devise clear roadmaps to deliver next generation technology solutions.

• Deep technical experts and thought leaders that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices
• Visionaries, collaborating on Capital One's toughest issues, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives of our customers and associates
• Role models and mentors, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
• Evangelists, both internally and externally, helping to elevate the Distinguished Engineering community and establish themselves as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities

• Strategic technical lead who will oversee the vision, roadmap, trade-offs and delivery across the enterprise with a relentless focus on balancing security with simplification.
• Serve as a cyber security counsel to senior leadership
• Operate as a trusted advisor on cyber security as well as for a specific technology, platform and/or capability domain, helping to shape use cases and implementation in an unified and consistent manner
• Brings in a larger context to a larger software teams and architects across multiple domains/departments and guide their architecture evolution in response to business changes
• Builds awareness, increase knowledge and drive adoption of modern technologies, sharing consumer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in
• Strikes the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where others' ideas can be heard and championed; leverage expertise to grow skills in the broader Capital One team
• Promotes a culture of engineering excellence, using opportunities to reuse and innersource solutions where possible
• Effectively communicates with and influences key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization
• Operates as a trusted advisor for a specific technology, platform or capability domain, helping to shape use cases and implementation in an unified manner
• Leads the way in developing creating next-generation talent for Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting external talent to bolster Capital One's Tech talent
• The optimal candidate is someone with strong problem-solving, analytical, communication and interpersonal skills and who has knowledge or experience in several areas such as - defending against and/or mitigating system vulnerabilities (including enterprise level concerns, infrastructure, and host/endpoint), intrusion detection and incident response, network traffic analysis, scripting languages, software reverse engineering, network security devices (e.g., firewalls, intrusion and detection systems), SCADA and Control System Devices.

• Bachelors Degree
• At least 9 years experience in software development or software engineering
• At least 7 years experience in cyber security.
• At least 3 years of experience in securing a public cloud environments and services (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Master's degree
• 5+ years of experience in cyber security engineering (malware, antivirus, behavioral analysis, forensics)
• 5+ years experience in software engineering
• 3+ years experience utilizing Agile methodologies
• 4+ years experience assessing the effectiveness of security solutions against present and projected threats
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) or AWS Certification