Senior Data Platform Engineer (Remote)

Capital One Group; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Staff Data Engineer to influence and accelerate data platform initiatives across the enterprise. You will design scalable pipelines, mentor engineers, and partner with data scientists and product managers to deliver robust data solutions in a cloud-first environment.

The role emphasizes lakehouse architectures, data sharing capabilities, and strategic technology input across multiple teams while maintaining a focus on operational excellence and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a quantitative field.
• 9+ years in data engineering with 5+ years in data architecture.
• 3+ years building AWS applications and 6+ years data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data projects and design scalable pipelines.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices in data engineering.
• Drive data platform strategy including cloud, lakehouse and data sharing.
• Collaborate with data scientists, product managers and stakeholders.

Skills

Python

SQL

Java/Scala

Data modeling

Data pipelines

Cloud data platforms

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS or related field

Master's Degree (preferred)

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Kafka

Flink

Spark

EMR/Glue

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Staff Data Engineer to influence and accelerate data platform initiatives across the enterprise. You will design scalable pipelines, mentor engineers, and partner with data scientists and product managers to deliver robust data solutions in a cloud-first environment.

The role emphasizes lakehouse architectures, data sharing capabilities, and strategic technology input across multiple teams while maintaining a focus on operational excellence and governance.