Lead Software Engineer - Cyber

CapitalOne ,
London, Greater London
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White Collar Factory (95009), United Kingdom, London, London At Capital One, we're building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding. Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good. Lead Software Engineer - Cyber Threat modeling is the practice of examining software and systems from the design phase forward to identify and eliminate insecure patterns before they manifest in production code. Threat modeling ensures that software and systems continue to evolve securely as new features are added. Capital One aims to fully embed threat modeling across the software delivery lifecycle, ensuring that all Capital One software is measurably secure by design. As part of that initiative, we aim to develop software tools to enable engineers to threat model. As a lead software engineer working in the Enterprise Threat Modeling team, you will be delivering tools that empower engineers to threat model. These tools aim to capture and track all threat modelling activity across the enterprise, and deliver on our mission to provide meaningful measurements of the quality and value of threat models. The features you will be adding to our tooling ecosystem will aim to drive down the cost of threat modeling to engineering teams, while also driving up the quality and visibility of the threat models that are produced. You will be working with a diverse team including Threat Modeling Engineers, Data Scientists and Front and Backend software engineers to deliver data-driven tools for discovering and identifying threats in architectures and software designs. As a lead engineer you will be expected to bring both technical and people leadership expertise to the team. You will be involved in all stages of software delivery, and will be expected to help identify and drive the best architectural patterns for the tools we build. You will be collaborating with the full team, stakeholders and customers to help break down requirements into technical designs and roadmaps. In addition, you will be expected to help shape and grow the team culture, and support team members in their growth and development. About you * You thrive in a collaborative and collegial team that employs Agile and Scrum practices to deliver at pace with high visibility * You lead through inspiring those you work with and empowering them to succeed * You have a product mindset, and you seek customer and stakeholder feedback on your work and strive to use that feedback to improve the features you deliver * You value high quality and secure code with good documentation and full test coverage * You value and seek engagement with stakeholders and customers in order to understand the context of your work * You are naturally curious, and always looking to learn new technologies and stay at the leading edge of technology. You enjoy bringing new technologies and practices to the team * You are able to think about the broader context of systems you are building, and able to make appropriate architectural decisions and recommendations to ensure suitable scalability and performance This role requires a range of skills, including: * Experience leading teams of software engineers to deliver products at regular and predictable pace * A high level of people leadership management skills, the ability to shape a healthy team culture, and to support the growth and development of those you manage * Experience with developing end-to-end technical solutions by leveraging your knowledge and expertise across the stack and breaking that work down into actionable work for a team to execute against * Experience with leveraging Python frameworks for backend services * Experience with using the React.js ecosystem for front end development * Experience with designing and building data-driven applications incorporating data-rich visualisations, and machine learning driven backend services. * Experience with data engineering and data science frameworks. * Expertise with modern DevOps practices, including familiarity with CI/CD processes, and associated technologies such as Jenkins and Artifactory * Working in a Cloud environment, AWS preferred * Experience using containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes * Experience wit

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