Senior Data Platform Engineer - AWS, Lakehouse & Pipelines

Capital One; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Data Engineer to lead data pipelines and sharing capabilities with a focus on AWS, lakehouse architectures, and scalable platforms. The role combines strategic vision with hands-on coding in Python/SQL/Java/Scala to deliver next-generation data solutions.

You will influence engineering practices, mentor teams, and collaborate across lines of business to enable external and internal data availability at scale.

Qualifications

• 9+ years in data engineering.
• 5+ years in data architecture.
• 3+ years building applications in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of modern data technologies across the enterprise.
• Balance expertise with an inclusive environment for ideas.
• Promote engineering excellence and reuse of solutions.
• Communicate with stakeholders across the organization.
• Shape use cases and implementations for unified platforms.
• Mentor and recruit top tech talent.

Skills

AWS

Lakehouse

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Snowflake

Databricks

Python

SQL

Java

Scala

Data engineering

Data architecture

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Data Engineer to lead data pipelines and sharing capabilities with a focus on AWS, lakehouse architectures, and scalable platforms. The role combines strategic vision with hands-on coding in Python/SQL/Java/Scala to deliver next-generation data solutions.

You will influence engineering practices, mentor teams, and collaborate across lines of business to enable external and internal data availability at scale.