Senior Data Engineer, Platform & Pipelines Leader

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Data Engineer to lead the technical strategy for data pipelines and data sharing capabilities across the enterprise. This senior IC role emphasizes hands-on coding in Python/SQL/Java/Scala while shaping roadmaps, promoting engineering excellence, and mentoring talent.

The role focuses on lakehouse architecture, AWS infrastructure, and scalable data platforms, with responsibilities spanning stakeholder influence and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field and at least 9 years in data engineering.
• At least 5 years in data architecture.
• At least 3 years building applications in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Build and influence adoption of modern data technologies across Capital One.
• Lead inclusive teams and mentor other engineers to scale engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define unified use cases and implementation patterns.
• Drive platform scalability, performance, and operational excellence for data pipelines.

Skills

AWS

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Snowflake

Databricks

Python

SQL

Java

Scala

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Cloud AWS

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Data Engineer to lead the technical strategy for data pipelines and data sharing capabilities across the enterprise. This senior IC role emphasizes hands-on coding in Python/SQL/Java/Scala while shaping roadmaps, promoting engineering excellence, and mentoring talent.

The role focuses on lakehouse architecture, AWS infrastructure, and scalable data platforms, with responsibilities spanning stakeholder influence and cross-team collaboration.