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Lead Data Engineer

at Capital One Financial

📍 Chicago, IL Unknown 💰 $179K – $204K USD / year Posted March 14, 2026
Salary $179K – $204K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience lead
Exp. Years 4+ years
Education Bachelor's Degree
Category Data & Analytics

This role involves leading data engineering initiatives, developing scalable data pipelines, and working with big data and cloud technologies to support analytics and machine learning projects.

  • Design data pipelines
  • Manage big data infrastructure
  • Implement streaming solutions
  • Mentor data engineers
  • Optimize data warehousing

The position requires expertise in data engineering, distributed systems, cloud data warehousing (Redshift, Snowflake), big data tools (Hadoop, Spark), and real-time streaming applications.

The ideal candidate is a lead data engineer with 4+ years of experience in application development, big data technologies, and cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. They are skilled in distributed systems, data warehousing, and real-time data processing.

Bachelor's Degreeat least 4 years of application development experience2+ years of big data technologies1 year experience with cloud computing (AWSAzureGoogle Cloud)
7+ years of application development including PythonSQLScalaor Java4+ years of experience with cloud platforms (AWSAzureGoogle Cloud)4+ years of experience with distributed data tools (MapReduceHadoopHiveEMRKafkaSparkGurobiMySQL)4+ years of experience with real-time data and streaming applications4+ years of NoSQL implementation (MongoCassandra)4+ years of data warehousing (RedshiftSnowflake)4+ years of UNIX/Linux experience2+ years of Agile engineering practices
AWSAmazon Web ServicesRedshiftSnowflakeHadoopHiveEMRKafkaSparkGurobiMySQLUnix/Linux
JavaScalaPythonRedshiftSnowflakeHadoopKafkaSparkGurobiMySQLUnix/Linux
JavaScalaPythonOpen Source RDBMSNoSQL databasesRedshiftSnowflakeMachine LearningDistributed microservicesMapReduceHadoopHiveEMRKafkaSparkGurobiMySQLUnix/LinuxShell scripting
collaborativelearning new technologiesmentoringproblem-solvingteam collaboration
Industry Fintech
Job Function Lead data engineering projects to build scalable, real-time data solutions using big data and cloud technologies.
Lead Data EngineerData EngineeringPythonScalaJavaMachine LearningDistributed microservicesMapReduceHadoopHiveEMRKafkaSparkRedshiftSnowflakeNoSQLMongoCassandraData EngineerAWS

Less than 4 years of application development experience, No experience with big data tools or cloud platforms, Lack of experience with distributed data systems

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