Sr Manager IC, Merchant & Advertiser Data Marts — Analytics Team (Remote-Eligible)

Capital One; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr Manager IC to own and operate merchant/advertiser data marts in production. You’ll ship new systems, standardize Iceberg migrations, and enforce data-access governance using Trino + CloudSentry.

This remote-eligible role emphasizes technical execution over people management, with weekly cross-team coordination. You’ll join the Analytics org reporting to Engineering leadership, contributing to data cataloging, GDPR/CCPA governance, and scalable lakehouse infrastructure

Qualifications

• 10+ years engineering experience with data platforms.
• 5+ years building shared data platforms / lakehouse infra.
• Experience migrating Hive → Iceberg at scale on revenue-attached systems.
• Standards-setting that multiple teams adopt (≥3 teams).
• Governance under GDPR/CCPA with PII-classification and audit trails.
• Experience shifting consumers off raw event tables to curated marts.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate data marts in production with migration code and dbt models.
• Lead Iceberg standardization and parity tests for privacy and auditability.
• Draft and enforce marts-first access policy using Trino + CloudSentry.
• Collaborate weekly with Sales, BizOps, Analytics on governance decisions.
• Provide production support and on-call coverage for data marts.

Skills

Data platform engineering

Hive to Iceberg migration

Cross-functional fluency

Claude Code fluency

dbt models

Trino/Presto

Spark SQL

Airflow

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

Hive

Iceberg

dbt

Trino/Presto

Airflow

Kafka

AWS

Job description

Sr Manager IC, Merchant & Advertiser Data Marts — Analytics Team (Remote-Eligible) The role Own the platform substrate behind Capital One Shopping's merchant and advertiser data — the marts that power Retail Media, advertiser reporting, revenue attribution, and every marketing measurement in the business. You set the standards (reference architecture, catalog, access policy, GDPR/audit guarantees) that downstream product teams build on. This is an own-and-build role, not a maintenance seat: you own and operate these marts in production, and in your first six months you ship three net-new systems. You'll report to the Engineering Director for the Shopping data platform as one of two senior IC pillars of the analytics org.

What you'll build

• A data mart catalog + query-pattern analysis — a single source of truth covering every production mart (owner, SLO, lineage, PII classification, audit trail), plus a Trino-log analysis that shows which raw tables need a mart next. Extends the existing Dataset Registration Scanner, doesn't fork it.
• Iceberg standardization on a revenue-attached mart — finish the Hive → Iceberg pattern on one high-value merchant/advertiser mart, with PII-masking parity, GDPR deletion-propagation, and schema-change audit baked into a reusable playbook other teams can follow. Bounded standardization, not an open-ended migration.
• A marts-first access policy, enforced — draft and land a policy that steers consumers off raw event tables when a mart exists, enforced on three high-traffic raw schemas via Trino permissions + CloudSentry, with a full auditable exception log.
• The stack Lakehouse on Iceberg (with legacy Hive tables mid-standardization), dbt at multi-repo scale, Trino/Presto and Spark SQL, Airflow orchestration, Kafka/MSK streaming upstream, on AWS.
• Data catalog tooling (Amundsen, DataHub, Collibra, OpenMetadata, or home-grown equivalents).
• GDPR/CCPA governance mechanics throughout.

The day-to-day "Manager" is the level, not the job — this is an individual-contributor role, and you'll spend most of your day writing migration code and dbt models, not managing a team. Roughly 65% building: writing the Hive → Iceberg migration and its parity tests, coding catalog lineage / PII-classification / audit capture, authoring dbt models and Airflow DAGs, and implementing access enforcement as Trino + CloudSentry policy-as-code. The other ~35% is technical coordination — the weekly Sales / BizOps / Analytics cadence and the PII/access decisions — because governance is cross-functional by nature. The policy work is code and config, not a PDF. You also carry ongoing production support and an on-call rotation for the existing and future marts on this surface — you own what you build, in production. No direct reports — you build.

What we're looking for

• 10+ years engineering experience, 5+ years building shared data platforms / lakehouse infrastructure
• Hands-on experience leading a Hive → Iceberg (or analogous lakehouse) migration at scale on a revenue-attached system
• A track record of setting standards that multiple product teams actually adopted (≥3 teams)
• Experience building or extending a data catalog used across teams
• Data-access governance under a regulated framework — GDPR/CCPA, SOX, or equivalent — with specific PII-classification, deletion-propagation, or audit-trail work you owned end-to-end
• A track record of shifting consumers off raw event tables onto curated marts
• At least one prior role in a regulated data environment (financial services, healthcare, or equivalent)
• Prior merchant, advertiser, or retail-media data experience (or an analogous B2B customer-facing data product) — strong plus
• Cross-functional fluency — a hard requirement; weekly cadence with Sales, BizOps, and Analytics, translating business needs into platform work and back
• Claude Code fluency — daily use, skill authoring, PR-level deliverables (hard requirement)
• Basic Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 6 years of experience in software engineering (Internship experience does not apply)
• At least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Preferred Qualifications: Master’s Degree
• 9+ years of experience in at least one of the following: JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, SQL, Python, or Go
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, or another cloud service
• 4+ years of experience in open source frameworks
• 1+ years of people management experience
• 2+ years of experience in Agile practices

Salaries

• Remote (Regardless of Location): $209,000 - $238,500 for Sr. Lead Software Engineer
• McLean, VA: $229,900 - $262,400 for Sr. Lead Software Engineer
• Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

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 offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level. This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. No agencies please.

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