Director, Technical Program Management

Capital One Capital One · Banking · McLean, VA +1

This role is for a Director, Technical Program Management at Capital One, a fintech company. The primary focus is on leading programs to deliver critical business goals and build large-scale products and platforms, leveraging technology to improve customers' financial lives. The role requires strong technical backgrounds, program management experience, and the ability to lead and develop a team of TPMs. Experience in highly regulated environments is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Grow and develop a team of TPMs, while also building the foundations for the TPM practice
  2. Simplify the technically complex and drive well-educated decisions across product, engineering, design, and data science representatives
  3. Deep focus on execution, follow-through, accountability, and results
  4. Exceptional cross-team collaboration; able to work across different functions, organizations, and reporting boundaries to get the job done.
  5. Highly tuned emotional intelligence, good listener, and deep seated empathy for teams and partners

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree
  • At least 7 years of experience managing technical programs

Nice to have

  • 7+ years of experience designing and building data-intensive solutions using distributed computing
  • 3+ years of experience in building distributed systems & highly available services using cloud computing services / architecture - preferably using AWS
  • 3+ years experience building highly scalable mobile products & platforms
  • 3+ years of experience with Agile delivery
  • 3+ years years experience delivering large and complex programs - where you own the business or technical vision, collaborate with large cross-functional teams, secure commitments on deliverables and unblock teams to land business impact
  • Experience in building systems & solutions within a highly regulated environment
  • Bachelor's degree in a related technical field (Computer Science, Software Engineering)
  • MBA or Master’s Degree in a related technical field (Computer Science, Software Engineering) or equivalent experience

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience in building systems & solutions within a highly regulated environment