Lead Data Platform Engineer - Secure Cloud & Automation

Capital One (Europe) plc

Nottingham

Hybrid

GBP 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Capital One (Europe) plc in Nottingham is seeking a Lead Data Platform Engineer to own the resilience, scalability, and security of our core financial data ecosystem. This is a senior, hands-on role designing, building, and running high-throughput data platforms in a regulated cloud environment.

You will drive automation, self-healing platforms, and support AI workloads while guiding cross-functional teams across on-site and offshore.

Qualifications

Background in platform engineering, site reliability, or data operations in regulated environments.
Strong AWS knowledge and data pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow, Glue, EMR).
Security-minded approach to managing sensitive data pipelines.
Proficient in Python and shell scripting to automate systems and batch environments.
Proven ability to mentor and coordinate distributed onsite/offshore teams.

Responsibilities

Design and deploy high-performance, secure data movement solutions in a regulated financial environment.
Lead production support and incident management for data pipelines with RCA analysis.
Ensure data security and governance across the data lifecycle, including encryption and access controls.
Develop automation to reduce manual toil and increase end-to-end observability.
Tune performance of data movement jobs and AWS infrastructure; optimize costs.
Provide technical leadership and collaborate across dispersed teams to drive cloud modernization.