Senior Director, Data Platform & AI Security

Capital One; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 343,000 - 392,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Director, Data Engineer to lead the Identity Analytics & Intelligence org, defining multi-year platform strategy and owning architecture for identity analytics, access decisions, and AI/ML security. You will lead 50+ engineers across Data Engineering, ML, GenAI and Security products, guiding design choices and ensuring scalable, secure data platforms.

You will work closely with the CISO and executives to align AI/ML investments with business and regulatory priorities,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering).
• At least 9 years of experience in data engineering.
• At least 7 years of people management experience.
• At least 7 years of experience programming in Python, Java, or Scala.
• At least 5 years of experience driving technical delivery of roadmap features.
• At least 6 years of experience designing and developing data pipelines.
• At least 4 years of experience in data modeling and designing end-to-end data solutions using relational and non-relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise strategy and multi-year roadmap for identity analytics, access decisioning, and AI/ML security platforms.
• Lead and grow a 50+ person organization across Data Engineering, ML, GenAI, and Security Products.
• Set technical direction; review architectures and model designs; stay close to code and data.
• Architect low-latency, event-driven systems for real-time identity decisioning and threat detection.
• Design and maintain robust ML infrastructure and pipelines for end-to-end workflows.
• Advance MLOps through automated deployment workflows and scalable monitoring.
• Build intelligence for agentic and non-human identities using behavioral analytics and context graphs.
• Apply state-of-the-art LLM/GenAI techniques in production for threat intel summaries and automated triage.
• Operate automated governance with enterprise pipelines and continuous control validation.

Skills

Leadership

Data engineering

Cloud architecture

Python

Java

Scala

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

People management

Stakeholder collaboration

Technical vision

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Spark

Glue

Databricks

Snowflake

Kubernetes

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Director, Data Engineer to lead the Identity Analytics & Intelligence org, defining multi-year platform strategy and owning architecture for identity analytics, access decisions, and AI/ML security. You will lead 50+ engineers across Data Engineering, ML, GenAI and Security products, guiding design choices and ensuring scalable, secure data platforms.

You will work closely with the CISO and executives to align AI/ML investments with business and regulatory priorities,