Senior Data Platform Engineer – DataOps (Hybrid)

Capital One; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Bonus

Generous holiday entitlement

Private medical insurance

Season-ticket loans

Cycle‑to‑work scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Lead Data Platform Engineer to own resilience, scalability, and security of our core data ecosystem in a regulated cloud environment. You will design, build, and run high‑throughput data platforms for batch and real‑time workloads and guide a distributed team across on‑site and offshore locations.

You’ll lead architectural design, automate operations, and optimize performance while ensuring stringent security and governance. Nottingham‑based with hybrid work.

Qualifications

• Experience in platform engineering or SRE in regulated environments.
• Strong AWS knowledge and data pipeline tools (Airflow/Glue/EMR).
• Security minded for handling sensitive data pipelines.
• Strong automation skills with Python/Shell scripting.
• Collaborator with distributed teams; mentoring ability.

Responsibilities

• Design & Implementation: Lead the architectural design and deployment of high‑performance, secure data movement solutions within a regulated, mission‑critical financial environment.
• Production Support & Reliability: Act as SME and tech lead for resolving complex incidents affecting data pipelines; manage stakeholders during critical events.
• Data Security & Governance: Ensure integrity and security of highly sensitive data, implementing encryption at rest and in transit and access controls.
• Automation & Tooling: Develop automation for common operational tasks and build tools and monitoring for end‑to‑end health insights.
• Performance Optimization: Tune data movement jobs and AWS infrastructure to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Mentor onsite and offshore team members and contribute to long‑term cloud modernization.

Skills

Platform engineering

SRE

Data operations

AWS

Python

Shell scripting

Automation

Team leadership

Communication

Tools

Airflow

Glue

EMR

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Lead Data Platform Engineer to own resilience, scalability, and security of our core data ecosystem in a regulated cloud environment. You will design, build, and run high‑throughput data platforms for batch and real‑time workloads and guide a distributed team across on‑site and offshore locations.

You’ll lead architectural design, automate operations, and optimize performance while ensuring stringent security and governance. Nottingham‑based with hybrid work.