Senior Staff Data Engineer - Pipelines & Platform Leader

Capital One; Jefferson City (MO); On-site; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr Staff Data Engineer to drive technical strategy for data pipelines and sharing capabilities across the enterprise. You will mentor other engineers, shape platform direction, and deliver scalable data solutions using AWS, Lakehouse architectures, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding in Python, SQL, Java and/or Scala, and collaboration across business lines to enable internal and external data availability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 9+ years in data engineering and 5+ years in data architecture.
• 3+ years building applications in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Build awareness and adoption of modern technologies across teams.
• Balance expertise with inclusive collaboration and skill growth.
• Promote engineering excellence and reuse of solutions.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Act as a trusted advisor for technology domains and use cases.
• Mentor and recruit to strengthen Capital One’s tech talent.

Skills

AWS infrastructure

Data pipelines

Data architectures

Mentoring

Engineering leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr Staff Data Engineer to drive technical strategy for data pipelines and sharing capabilities across the enterprise. You will mentor other engineers, shape platform direction, and deliver scalable data solutions using AWS, Lakehouse architectures, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding in Python, SQL, Java and/or Scala, and collaboration across business lines to enable internal and external data availability.