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Senior Data Engineer

at Capital One Financial

📍 McLean, VA Unknown 💰 $161K – $184K USD / year Posted March 13, 2026
Salary $161K – $184K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience mid
Exp. Years 3+ years
Education Bachelor's Degree
Category Data & Analytics

A mid-level data engineer role focused on building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines and analytics infrastructure within a financial services environment.

  • Design and develop data pipelines
  • Optimize data processing performance
  • Support real-time streaming applications
  • Collaborate with data science teams
  • Maintain data warehouse solutions

Environment involves big data processing with Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, data warehousing with Redshift and Snowflake, and scripting in Unix/Linux systems, supporting real-time and batch data workflows.

The ideal candidate is a mid-level data engineer with at least 3 years of experience in application development and big data technologies, proficient in Python, Scala, Java, and experienced with distributed data tools like Hadoop and Spark. They should have familiarity with data warehousing solutions such as Redshift or Snowflake and be comfortable working in cloud environments.

Bachelor's Degree3+ years application development1+ year in big data technologiesExperience with PythonSQLScalaJavaExperience with distributed data toolsExperience with NoSQL and data warehousing
5+ years application development2+ years cloud experience (AWSAzureGCP)3+ years distributed data tools2+ years real-time data/streaming2+ years NoSQL (MongoCassandra)2+ years data warehousing (RedshiftSnowflake)3+ years UNIX/Linux2+ years Agile practices
JavaScalaPythonRedshiftSnowflakeHadoopHiveKafkaSparkGurobiMySQLUnix/LinuxShell scripting
JavaScalaPythonHadoopSparkKafkaHiveRedshiftSnowflakeNoSQLUnix/LinuxShell scripting
JavaScalaPythonOpen Source RDBMSNoSQL databasesRedshiftSnowflakeMapReduceHadoopHiveKafkaSparkGurobiMySQLUnix/LinuxShell scripting
CollaborationProblem-solvingPerformance tuningTeamworkMentoring
Industry Financial Services / Banking
Job Function Building and supporting data infrastructure for analytics and reporting
Senior Data EngineerData EngineerBig DataPythonScalaJavaHadoopSparkKafkaHiveRedshiftSnowflakeNoSQLData warehousingUnix/LinuxShell scripting

Less than 3 years of experience, No experience with big data tools, Lack of proficiency in Python, Scala, Java, No experience with data warehousing or NoSQL

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