Senior Lead Data Engineer (Intelligent Foundations and Experiences)

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 229,900 - 262,400; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in McLean, VA seeks a Senior Lead Data Engineer to join Intelligent Foundations & Experiences. You will design, develop, and deploy data-driven solutions at scale, lead a team of engineers, and collaborate with product managers to deliver real-time analytics and AI-powered features.

The role requires 6+ years in application development, 2+ years in big data, and cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 6+ years in application development.
• 2+ years in big data technologies.
• 1+ year cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Agile teams to design, develop, test, and support full-stack solutions.
• Lead a team of developers with ML, distributed microservices, and full-stack systems.
• Utilize Java, Scala, Python and SQL/NoSQL in cloud data warehousing.
• Mentor engineers and share tech trends; participate in communities.
• Deliver cloud-based solutions for financial empowerment.
• Perform unit tests and code reviews for performance.

Skills

Java

Scala

Python

SQL

NoSQL

Big data

AWS

Azure

GCP

Spark

Hadoop

Kafka

Redshift

Snowflake

Unix/Linux

Agile

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Redshift

Snowflake

Hadoop

Hive

EMR

MongoDB

Cassandra

Spark

Kafka

Unix/Linux

Job description

Senior Lead Data Engineer (Intelligent Foundations and Experiences)

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers, and disruptors who solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Data Engineers who are passionate about marrying data with emerging technologies. As a Capital One Senior Lead Data Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One.

Intelligent Foundations & Experiences (IFX) is a powerful collective of horizontal technology organizations that are driving Capital One’s real-time intelligent future. Together with our partners in the Enterprise and across lines of business, we deliver broad-reaching technical solutions and advance state‑of‑the‑art science to help every Capital One associate and our 100+M customers succeed.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies
• Lead a team of developers with deep experience in machine learning, distributed microservices, and full stack systems
• Utilize programming languages like Java, Scala, Python and Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases and Cloud based data warehousing services such as Redshift and Snowflake
• Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, and mentoring other members of the engineering community
• Collaborate with digital product managers, and deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help millions of Americans achieve financial empowerment
• Perform unit tests and conduct reviews with other team members to make sure your code is rigorously designed, elegantly coded, and effectively tuned for performance

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 6 years of experience in application development (Internship experience does not apply)
• At least 2 years of experience in big data technologies
• At least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree
• 9+ years of experience in application development including Python, SQL, Scala, or Java
• 4+ years of experience with a public cloud (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• 5+ years experience with Distributed data/computing tools (MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Kafka, Spark, Gurobi, or MySQL)
• 4+ years of experience working on real-time data and streaming applications
• 4+ years of experience with NoSQL implementation (Mongo, Cassandra)
• 4+ years of data warehousing experience (Redshift or Snowflake)
• 4+ years of experience with UNIX/Linux including basic commands and shell scripting
• 2+ years of experience with Agile engineering practices
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Cambridge, MA: $229,900 - $262,400 for Sr. Lead Data Engineer

McLean, VA: $229,900 - $262,400 for Sr. Lead Data Engineer

Richmond, VA: $209,000 - $238,500 for Sr. Lead Data Engineer

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.