Director of Technology
Company: Capital One
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: May 16, 2022
Job Description:
314 Main Street (21020), United States of America, Cambridge,
MassachusettsDirector of TechnologyReporting to the Senior
Director, Engineering & Delivery Excellence, this role will play a
key strategic role in our data transformation journey. A strong
candidate will have a diverse and proven track record of delivering
solutions from discovery through implementation as well as
analytical and communication skills required for leading and
delivering a new initiative. They will be able to communicate
across software and data engineering teams and our business while
ensuring strong collaboration between technology and product areas.
Influence and the ability to build relationships within technology
and our product partners will be required to ultimately deliver on
the needs of our customers. This person will be a critical thinker
and thrive in working across teams and be able to influence the
development of scope and roadmaps with some ambiguity. This role
requires someone with a proven track record of collaborating across
tech, business, design as well as agile and portfolio teams to
understand complex problems and use analytical insights to drive
delivery and process improvements. Candidates must have the proven
ability to quickly put structure in place to manage operations in a
dynamic, complex environment. General Responsibilities:
- Leads multiple Agile release trains dedicated to Data
Transformation
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
- Excellent influencing and problem solving skills
- Provides mentoring to agile teams and assists in the
development of capability-based solutions, technical requirement
determination and value analysis
- Lead, manage and grow a team of portfolio managers and agile
professionals, guiding the professional and technical
development
- Create strong partnership with leaders in Product, Technology,
and other key stakeholders that drive delivery of portfolio goals
and objectives within an Agile delivery culture
- Proactively identify gaps in technology and process and develop
a strategic plan to drive holistic, horizontal solutions that
reduce challenges and toil faced by engineers
- Drive prioritization, grooming and solutioning of enterprise
initiatives, providing ready to implement solutions for teams
- Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge
technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork,
self-organization, and diversity
- Lead portfolio to deliver prioritized outcomes and goals while
maintaining focus on quality, continuous delivery, and continuous
improvement
- Focus on providing transparency of portfolio progress towards
commitments and outcomes and proactively address questions
- Ensure portfolio alignment to enterprise and local delivery
controls, policies, procedures, and standards to minimize
operational/reputational risk in order to be well managed
- Understands and articulates the why behind key business/tech
priorities to drive shared understanding of value
- Drives dependency, risk, and impediment management within and
across portfolios and applies knowledge of initiatives as well as
relationships with key stakeholders to enable transparency and
escalation as needed
- Mastery of complex facilitation and dependency management
techniques to drive cross-program and portfolio planning,
collaboration, and coordination
- Leverage data to optimize delivery across business and
technology by identifying opportunities for continuous improvement,
with measurable outcomes balancing data with other factors in
decision making
- Act as talent magnet to recruit, motivate, mentor, and lead the
best delivery talent
- Assesses the organization s current Agile fluency at portfolio,
program and team levels and sets direction for measuring
growth
- Identifies opportunities and action plans for improvement
within the organization
- Serves as a trusted advisor for senior leaders about strategic
use of Agile practices and methodologies
- Advises on delivery metrics for the organization at senior
levels
- Builds a culture that fosters Diversity and Inclusion and helps
build and mature diverse teams
- Shares Agile Delivery innovations outside of the organization
team to encourage reuse and adoption by other groups
- Demonstrates executive level judgment and uses their time for
highest leverage initiatives Coaching
- Displays pragmatic leadership, change management, and influence
in applying Engineering, Agile and Lean best practices to move
broader teams forward
- Advances Business, Technology, and Operations leadership s
understanding of their respective roles within iterative software
delivery, and influences organizational agility
- Coaches and influences Product and Tech Leaders to develop a
combined, prioritized backlog
- Demonstrates innovation of large scale delivery in an Agile way
- Creates a safe, inclusive, and open culture where all job
families work together as one team to achieve the portfolio's
delivery goals We are looking for people who can help teams improve
efficiency, manage risk and provide visibility to the work being
done. Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor s Degree
- At least 7 years of experience in software development
- At least 5 years of people management experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters Degree
- 13+ years of experience in Agile and Portfolio Management in an
agile software development environment
- 8+ years of people management experience
- Lean Portfolio Management (LPM), Project Management
Professional (PMP), Agile, or Six Sigma certification
- SAFe certified or experience Capital One will consider
sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization
for this position.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, race, color, age, national
origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic
information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender
identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected
veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable
national, 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
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Service Corp. (COPSSC).
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