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Senior Lead Data Engineer

at Capital One Financial

📍 2 Locations Unknown 💰 $229K – $262K USD / year Posted March 20, 2026
Salary $229K – $262K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience lead
Exp. Years 6+ years
Education Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field
Category Data & Analytics

Senior Lead Data Engineer role focused on managing big data projects and leading teams to develop cloud-based data solutions in a financial environment.

  • Leading data projects
  • Managing data teams
  • Designing scalable data pipelines
  • Optimizing data warehouses
  • Supporting cloud migration

Environment includes AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and data warehousing tools like Redshift and Snowflake, emphasizing leadership in data engineering.

The ideal candidate is a senior data engineer with over 6 years of experience in big data and cloud platforms, with leadership skills and expertise in Java, Scala, and Python. They should be capable of managing teams and designing scalable data solutions.

Bachelor's Degreeapplication developmentbig data technologiescloud computing
PythonSQLScalaJavaMapReduceHadoopHiveEMRKafkaSparkMongoDBCassandraData warehousing
RedshiftSnowflakeAWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudHadoopHiveKafkaSparkMySQLMongoDBCassandra
JavaScalaPythonRedshiftSnowflakeHadoopSparkKafkaNoSQLapplication developmentmicroservicesmachine learning
JavaScalaPythonRedshiftSnowflakeOpen Source RDBMSNoSQL databasesAWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudDistributed data toolsMicroservicesMachine learningFull stack developmentCloud computing
leadershipteam managementcollaborationproblem-solvingmentoringcommunication
Industry Finance/Banking
Job Function Leading and developing cloud-based big data infrastructure
Role Subtype Data Engineer
Tech Domains Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft 365, Active Directory, SQL / PostgreSQL
Clearance Required None
Visa Sponsorship Yes
Lead Data Engineerbig datacloud computingAWSAzureGoogle CloudRedshiftSnowflakeHadoopSparkKafkaMongoDBCassandraapplication developmentfull stackmachine learningmicroservicesData EngineerPythonScalaNoSQL

No Bachelor's degree, Less than 2 years in big data, No cloud experience, Lack of leadership experience

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