"Larger enterprises are always going to have a certain amount of resistance to such a big change," says George Brady, executive vice president and chief technology officer at So how did Capital One get to the point where, in 2015, it announced that all new company applications would run in—and all existing applications would be systematically rearchitected for—the cloud?
"Many companies approach the cloud by trying to solve easy problems first, such as by putting isolated parts of the business on the cloud with the hope that this will make it easier to tackle the bigger issues down the road," Brady says. With Capital One online banking, you choose when, where and how to bank. Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Capital One's Pledge to Social Justice for Black Communities. What Enterprise Architecture Looks Like in a Fast-Paced Tech Company How we transformed our enterprise architecture. Kyle Nicholson joined AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz to discuss how the company is performing data science at scale. "Capital One scientists, engineers, and designers spend a lot of time thinking about how the latest technologies can help us do that. But you also have to make sure that business executives understand how exciting the cloud is for their business goals if they're going to be willing to make the significant investments you need to keep moving the ball down the field. "Even though that first question was simple to answer, it opened the door to more complicated ones—about security, compliance, and how to effect the needed culture change.
"One key early step we took was to establish a cloud governance function, consisting of risk managers and cloud engineers, to curate capabilities and controls that would keep us well managed as we moved applications into the cloud," says Brady, adding that this team has continued to update and refine the cloud-risk-control framework quarterly. "Now that Capital One has been cloud–first for several years—as part of a larger long-term strategy of reducing the company's data center footprint and expanding its use of microservices—the company no longer has to speak prospectively about the value of operating in the cloud and can instead point to concrete benefits. "We developed and open-sourced a compliance-enforcement engine called Cloud Custodian, to automate detection and correction of policy violations so we could keep our teams inside the guardrails without restricting their ability to work creatively and innovate for our customers. I expect the transformation weâre undergoing to continue as we fine tune our practice, moving onto newly identified âbig rocksâ and evolving our architecture intelligence organization. FORTUNE is not affiliated with, and does not endorse products or services of, Capital One. And your work helps disrupt an entire industry in positive ways while you get the opportunities, support and benefits you need. Capital One does not provide, endorse, nor guarantee and is not liable for third party products, services, educational tools, or other information available through this site. "The basic question was whether it made more sense to devote resources to building and operating our own cloud infrastructure or to move to the public cloud so that we could focus on building and releasing the new features and products our customers want. Newsroom Helping Our Customers. Discover it for yourself.If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at Capital One is a federally registered service mark.