Sr. Staff Data Engineer — Pipelines & Platform Innovator

Information Technology Senior Management Forum; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Data Engineer to drive the technical strategy for data pipelines and data sharing strategies across lines of business. You will be an IC with hands-on leadership, delivering scalable architectures and fostering engineering excellence.

You will work with AWS, Lakehouse, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks, mentoring teams and influencing cross‑functional partners. This role emphasizes scalability, performance, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree is required.
• 9+ years in data engineering.
• 5+ years in data architecture.
• 3+ years building applications in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Build and promote modern data technologies across the enterprise.
• Influence stakeholders from across the organization.
• Mentor engineers and elevate the technical community.
• Lead and recruit to strengthen Capital One’s tech talent.

Skills

AWS

Data engineering

Data architecture

Python

SQL

Java/Scala

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 the technical strategy for data pipelines and data sharing strategies across lines of business. You will be an IC with hands-on leadership, delivering scalable architectures and fostering engineering excellence.

You will work with AWS, Lakehouse, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks, mentoring teams and influencing cross‑functional partners. This role emphasizes scalability, performance, and operational excellence.