Capital One Director Delivery Lead - Bank Tech 

United States, Virginia, Arlington 

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Director, Delivery Lead - Bank Tech

Role Specific:

A successful DL must remain outcome/delivery focused; utilizing bandwidth to help examine/refine existing processes practices and enable high value continuous improvement based on real-time intelligent insights.

Delivery Optimization

• Advise on optimized methods and standards for delivery practices, tooling and reporting that minimizes administrative overhead and increases actionable insights to drive value creation. Enable, govern and launch these standards.

• Refine steady-state delivery practices, artifacts and routines to optimize the building of high quality software, faster (in collaboration with cross-functional leadership).

• Define, measure, track and report out overall tower/domain/platform health metrics.

• Ensure traceability of commitments, progress and impediments, across all types of work

• Govern, enable and ensure alignment with enterprise and LOB delivery standards (process, artifacts, tooling and data)

Strategic Alignment

• Ensure all work within the tower directly supports strategic goals and key priorities of the tower’s services and platforms. This includes providing clear insights into tower performance to support and empower tower leaders.

• Partner with Engineering leaders to develop and maintain comprehensive 12-month tower roadmaps, incorporating all types of work based on historical capacity.

• Collaborate with Engineering leadership to drive prioritization decisions based on data, including impact analysis and trade-off considerations.

• Regularly analyze and report on tower investment allocation levels, feature costs, and potential impacts to inform prioritization decisions for tower leadership.

• Ensure tower priorities align across Business, Enterprise Tech and Bank Tech labor strategies

Tower Governance

• Publish, maintain and align unified listing of active and future projects, ensuring regular and consistent status updates with minimal administrative overhead

• Facilitate the scheduling of work outside of key programs including cross-functional efforts, with impact and sizing discussions

• Drive delivery of the tower/domain/platform roadmaps forward. Identify, escalate and personally mitigate risks and impediments to on-time delivery of high quality solutions

• Partner with TPMs, Project Managers and Engineering Leaders on the creation, publication and refinement of program delivery best practices including but not limited to stakeholder management, dependency management, risk management, communication planning as well as scope decomposition/refinement

Who you are:

• Strong portfolio, project, and program management and organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail

• Known for your strong quantitative background to support data-informed decision making

• Can work autonomously and knows when to escalate in a timely manner with direct manager and leadership

• Confident to champion unpopular ideas even with more senior leaders

• Ability to navigate ambiguous situations

• Collaborative, team player attitude with the ability to navigate and influence the organization

• Executive communication skills that can tell the story that will positively drive transformational change

• Contributor to continuous improvement of program / portfolio management practices

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years of project or program management experience

• At least 3 years of portfolio management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters in Business Administration

• 10+ years of project or program management experience

• 5+ years of portfolio management experience

• 5+ years of experience with Agile or Lean methodologies

• PMP, Lean, Agile or Six Sigma certification

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

McLean, VA: $200,100 - $228,400 for Director, Project Management Richmond, VA: $181,800 - $207,500 for Director, Project ManagementThis role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

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