Senior Data Engineer – AI Pipelines & Real‑Time Data

Capital One; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 209,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Data Engineer to design and implement an AI-enabled data platform, bridging traditional data architecture with modern AI workloads and LLM pipelines. You will build scalable batch and real-time data pipelines, feature stores, and governance practices, collaborating with data scientists, analysts, and engineers to deliver production-ready AI signals across enterprise initiatives.

This role offers exposure to multi-cloud environments, performance-driven optimization, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.
• 6+ years of application development experience.
• 4+ years in distributed data systems.
• 4+ years of SQL experience.
• 4+ years programming in Python, Java, or Scala.
• 4+ years designing and developing data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and scale data pipelines for AI workloads.
• Provide technical leadership and coding standards.
• Implement data governance, privacy safeguards, and lineage.
• Develop scalable feature stores for real-time and offline training.
• Optimize cross-cloud pipelines for performance and cost.
• Collaborate with PMs, data scientists, and executives.

Skills

Bachelor's Degree

6+ years app dev

4+ years distributed data

4+ years SQL

Python/Java/Scala

4+ years data pipelines

2+ years data modeling

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher

Master's Degree (preferred)

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Data Engineer to design and implement an AI-enabled data platform, bridging traditional data architecture with modern AI workloads and LLM pipelines. You will build scalable batch and real-time data pipelines, feature stores, and governance practices, collaborating with data scientists, analysts, and engineers to deliver production-ready AI signals across enterprise initiatives.

This role offers exposure to multi-cloud environments, performance-driven optimization, and