Voyager (94001), India, Bangalore, Karnātaka

Director, Technical Program Management

Director, Technical Program Management

At Capital One India, we work in a fast paced and intellectually rigorous environment to solve fundamental business problems at scale. Using advanced analytics, data science and machine learning, we derive valuable insights about product and process design, consumer behavior, regulatory and credit risk, and more from large volumes of data, and use it to build cutting edge patentable products that drive the business forward.

Capital One’s Enterprise Data business unit drives the company’s data strategy, focusing on governance, analytics, and AI integration to support banking innovations. It operates under a “You Build, Your Data” model that balances team autonomy with centralized standards.

At Capital One, you will be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who solve real problems and meet real customer needs. As a Director of Technical Program Management (TPM) in the MLX team, you will execute on high priority enterprise level initiatives, and influence across our organization. Specifically, you will be partnering closely with product, engineering, data scientists, and other cross functional teams to create roadmaps, scope programs aligning them with business priorities, define milestones and success metrics, and build scalable, secure, reliable, efficient ML products and platforms. This role will be responsible for big picture thinking, presenting to executive stakeholders, and holding engineering teams accountable for overarching delivery goals. In addition to the technical program, you will also work to pave the way for an expanding TPM discipline within the team, by leveraging your industry knowledge and experience to teach the organization what a great TPM can achieve.

What you will do:

• Strong technical backgrounds (ideally building highly scalable platforms, products, or services) with the ability to proactively identify and mitigate technical risks throughout delivery life-cycle

• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills

• Excellent problem solving and influencing skills

• A quantitative approach to problem solving and a collaborative implementer to holistic solutions; a systems thinker

• Experience as a TPM leader to grow and develop a team of TPMs, while also building the foundations for the TPM practice

• Ability to simplify the technically complex and drive well-educated decisions across product, engineering, design, and data science representatives

• Deep focus on execution, follow-through, accountability, and results

• Exceptional cross-team collaboration; able to work across different functions, organizations, and reporting boundaries to get the job done.

• Highly tuned emotional intelligence, good listener, and deep seated empathy for teams and partners

• Ability to lead a program team focused on the building of enterprise Machine Learning capabilities

• Previous experience with machine learning (building models, deploying models, setting up cloud infrastructure and/or data pipelines) and familiarity with major ML frameworks such as XGBoost, Py Torch, AWS Sage Maker, etc.

• Ability to manage program communications with key stakeholders at all levels across the company to enable transparency and timely information sharing

• Ability to serve as the connective tissue across functions, business units, bringing teams together to foster collaboration, improve decision-making, and deliver value for customers, end to end

Basic Qualifications:

• 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

• At least 7 years of experience managing technical programs

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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

• 10+ years of technical program management experience

• 3+ years of Machine Learning experience

• PMP, Lean, Agile, or Six Sigma certification

• 3+ years of people management experience

• 10+ years of technical program management experience

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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