Senior Data Engineer, Pipelines & Data Platform

Capital One Group; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance incentives

Job summary

Capital One in McLean, VA seeks a Sr. Staff Data Engineer at the Senior Director level, an IC who will shape the technical strategy for data pipelines and data sharing across lines of business.

You will leverage AWS, Lakehouse architectures, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks, while writing Python, SQL, Java, or Scala to deliver scalable, resilient platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive innovation, and elevate engineering practices across Capital One’s data ecosystem, ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• At least 9 years of data engineering experience.
• At least 5 years of data architecture experience.
• At least 3 years of AWS development experience.

Responsibilities

• Build awareness and drive adoption of modern technologies.
• Foster inclusive environment and champion ideas.
• Grow skills across the Capital One team.
• Promote engineering excellence and reuse solutions.
• Communicate with and influence stakeholders across the enterprise.
• Mentor internal talent and recruit external talent for tech growth.

Skills

Data engineering

Data architecture

AWS

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Masters’ Degree

Tools

Python

SQL

Java/Scala

Job description

Capital One in McLean, VA seeks a Sr. Staff Data Engineer at the Senior Director level, an IC who will shape the technical strategy for data pipelines and data sharing across lines of business.

You will leverage AWS, Lakehouse architectures, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks, while writing Python, SQL, Java, or Scala to deliver scalable, resilient platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive innovation, and elevate engineering practices across Capital One’s data ecosystem, ensuring