Senior Data Engineer – Platform & Pipelines Leader (Remote)

Capital One; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 286,000 - 392,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Data Engineer to lead and execute the technical strategy for data pipelines and data sharing across the enterprise. You will shape architecture, drive platform scalability, and mentor staff engineers while hands-on coding in Python, SQL, Java, or Scala.

The role emphasizes innovation, engineering excellence, and collaboration with stakeholders to accelerate delivery and maintain resiliency of large-scale data systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; 9+ years data engineering experience.
• 5+ years data architecture experience.
• 3+ years AWS experience building applications.

Responsibilities

• Build awareness and drive adoption of modern technologies across the enterprise.
• Balance lending expertise with inclusive collaboration to grow skills across teams.
• Promote engineering excellence and reusable solutions (innersource).
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Act as trusted advisor for technology domains and use cases across platforms.
• Mentor internal talent and help recruit external talent to strengthen Capital One's tech talent.

Skills

Data engineering

Data architecture

Python/SQL/Scala

AWS

Big data processing

Interactive AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Snowflake

Databricks

Lakehouse architecture

AWS infrastructure

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Data Engineer to lead and execute the technical strategy for data pipelines and data sharing across the enterprise. You will shape architecture, drive platform scalability, and mentor staff engineers while hands-on coding in Python, SQL, Java, or Scala.

The role emphasizes innovation, engineering excellence, and collaboration with stakeholders to accelerate delivery and maintain resiliency of large-scale data systems.