Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Manager - API Gateway

Overview

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Manager - API Gateway. Join a team at Capital One where you will be at the forefront of engineering leadership, guiding a cloud-focused team of internal and vendor-supplied engineers in an onshore/offshore model. You will shape the gateway strategy, modernize platforms to be efficient, stable, and secure, and grow your capabilities within a collaborative environment.

We are looking for a passionate and experienced leader who can inspire and mentor engineering talent, use data to inform key decisions, and possess a strong background in public cloud technologies with expertise in managing SaaS, internal and enterprise relationships. This is a permanent, hybrid role based in Nottingham, with three days a week in the office to foster connection and collaboration.

What you'll do:

• Lead a cloud-focused engineering team, overseeing Capital One staff and vendor-supplied engineers in an onshore/offshore model
• Partner with Enterprise Capital One counterparts to develop and implement Capital One's API Gateway strategy for the UK
• Modernise, consolidate, simplify, standardise, and adopt enterprise services for the UK
• Collaborate across the UK business to support and deliver best-in-class technology services
• Coach, develop and mentor technical engineers to achieve technical, business and personal goals
• Engage with the Supplier Management Office to manage relationships with third-party system providers for in-scope systems, including RFPs and contract renewals
• Drive platform effectiveness, maintainability, availability, stability and support
• Deliver a consistent level of service on in-scope systems, including platform upgrades, feature releases and changes on time
• Develop your own technical leadership skills

What we're looking for:

• Experience leading engineering teams to achieve business goals
• Strong communication skills; ability to partner across Engineering to share best practice and code to increase efficiency
• Data-driven decision making; ability to determine which engineering investments deliver the most business value
• Experience with SaaS and vendor management
• Knowledge of SDLC, Agile and ITIL Foundations
• Broad experience of API theory and practice
• Passion for recruiting and developing great engineering talent
• Experience with and enthusiasm for Public Cloud, our target infrastructure and direction of travel

Where and how you'll work:

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office. We have a hybrid working model requiring you to be in the Nottingham office 3 days a week (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays).

Recruitment and inclusion

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, building diverse and inclusive teams, and making our recruitment process fair and accessible. We partner with organisations including Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life. We offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages. We have internal networks and support groups, including:

• REACH - Race Equality and Culture Heritage
• OutFront - LGBTQ+ support
• Mind Your Mind - mental wellbeing support
• Women in Tech - promoting an inclusive environment in tech
• EmpowHER - developing future leaders, particularly for female talent
• Enabled - supporting associates with disabilities and neurodiversity

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact . All information will be kept confidential and used for applying a reasonable adjustment.

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Who we are

At Capital One, we are building a leading information-based technology company guided by shared values: collaboration, openness, innovation, and respect. We strive to help customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking.