Senior Staff Data Engineer - Remote Cloud Platform Leader

Capital One; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Staff Data Engineer to lead end‑to‑end data platforms in the cloud, mentoring engineers and shaping data strategy. You will influence architectural standards and deliver scalable data products across the enterprise.

You will own the design and implementation of data pipelines, collaborate with data scientists and product managers, and help advance Capital One Tech’s cloud data capabilities across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field
• At least 9 years of experience in data engineering
• At least 5 years of experience in data architecture
• At least 3 years of experience building applications in AWS
• At least 7 years of experience programming with Python, Java, or Scala
• 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

• Build awareness and drive adoption of modern technologies across the organization
• Balance lending expertise with an inclusive environment to grow the Capital One team
• Promote engineering excellence and reusable solutions across platforms
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the enterprise
• Advise on a technology domain and shape use cases and implementations
• Mentor engineers and recruit talent to strengthen Capital One Tech
• Drive the data engineering roadmap and adopt emerging data/AI trends

Skills

Python

Java

Scala

Data engineering

Data architecture

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related quantitative field

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Staff Data Engineer to lead end‑to‑end data platforms in the cloud, mentoring engineers and shaping data strategy. You will influence architectural standards and deliver scalable data products across the enterprise.

You will own the design and implementation of data pipelines, collaborate with data scientists and product managers, and help advance Capital One Tech’s cloud data capabilities across multiple teams.