Overview

hackajob Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

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Capital One is collaborating with hackajob to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.

What You’ll Do

• Be a differential people leader. You will coach and nurture your engineers and make a material positive difference to their careers and impact on the business.
• Provide technical leadership to your team. You don’t need to code, but you should stay close to your team’s work, set a high bar for engineering, understand technical risks and influence architectural thinking and decisions.
• Bring context and purpose to your team by ensuring they understand the why behind the work and shaping culture.
• Own ways of working and deliveries, partnering with your Product Owner and Change Delivery Lead to shape roadmaps and lead frequent delivery of high-quality software in a complex regulatory environment.
• Own one or more business applications, keeping them well-managed and compliant with the high bar set by the business.
• Be a manager for the business, elevating your thinking beyond your immediate team and representing the interests of the business to engineers.

What We’re Looking For

An approachable and inquisitive problem-solving leader, with a focus on the why, and a passion for growing people, nurturing culture and leading technical delivery to help us get things done and make things better in a complex, regulatory environment.

• Previous experience in leading teams, growing engineers and dealing with conflict constructively and collaboratively.
• Experience as an experienced software engineer with comfort around technology, architectural decisions and technical trade-offs.
• Experience in our backend tech stack - Java, Spring, AWS - and a strong advocate of tight feedback loops through automated tests, CI/CD pipelines and frequent releases.
• A balance of self-reflection and bias for action.
• Strong ownership and excellent communication.
• A drive for positive, proactive impact.

We understand that great engineering managers may not have every item listed, and that is OK. If you believe you can make a difference, lead a happy & high-performing engineering team and have the drive to positively impact the business, we’d love to hear from you.

What’s In It For You

• A people and technical leadership role in an engineering organisation that values excellence and doing the right thing, in a business that cares for its associates and has interesting problems to solve around growth, security, availability and performance in a highly regulated space.
• A learning environment with access to resources including online technical courses and in-person leadership training.
• A competitive salary and immediate access to core benefits including salary sacrifice pension with up to 10% company contribution, bonus, generous holiday entitlement, private medical insurance and flexible benefits including season ticket loans, cycle to work and enhanced parental leave.
• Open-plan workspace and facilities designed to inspire and support you.

What You’ll Learn (any previous experience would be advantageous)

• Solve real-world problems, navigate ambiguity and deliver on the public cloud (AWS) to drive growth and operational efficiencies in an ambitious and growing UK business.
• Influence change in a complex regulated environment.
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders including third-party partners to drive positive change for our customers.

Where And How You\'ll Work

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office. We have a hybrid working model with flexibility to work from our offices and from home. You’ll be based in our Nottingham office 3 days a week (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays).

What You Should Know About How We Recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people and building diverse and inclusive teams. We offer fair and accessible recruitment processes and benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We also partner with organisations including The Women In Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and UpReach. Internal networks include:

• REACH - Race Equality and Culture Heritage
• OutFront - LGBTQ+ support
• Mind Your Mind - mental wellbeing resources
• Women in Tech - inclusive environment in tech
• EmpowHER - network supporting female associates and allies
• Enabled - supporting associates with disabilities and neurodiversity

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact ukrecruitment@capitalone.com. All information will be kept confidential and used for applying a reasonable adjustment. For technical support or questions about Capital One\'s recruiting process, please email Careers@capitalone.com. Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee third-party products or services available through this site.

Capital One Financial is made up of several entities. Positions posted in the United Kingdom are for Capital One Europe.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Software Development

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