Position Details

Salary $229K – $262K USD / year

Type Full-Time

Experience lead

Exp. Years 6+ years in application development; 2+ years big data; 1+ year cloud

Education Bachelor's Degree

Category Data & Analytics

About this role

Senior Lead Data Engineer at Capital One performing data engineering across big data tech and cloud platforms to enable scalable data solutions and analytics for the bank.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions; Lead a team of developers with deep experience in machine learning, distributed microservices, and full stack systems; Utilize programming languages like Java, Scala, Python; Deliver cloud-based data warehousing solutions; Mentor engineering community

Technical Overview

Stack includes Java/Scala/Python, Spark, SQL, Hadoop ecosystem, and cloud data warehousing on AWS/Azure/GCP with Redshift/Snowflake; strong emphasis on distributed computing and data governance.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior/lead data engineer with strong big data and cloud experience, proficient in Java/Scala/Python, and hands-on with AWS and data warehousing technologies. They should be capable of leading cross‑functional data engineering efforts in a banking environment.

Must-Have Skills

Bachelor's DegreeAt least 6 years of experience in application developmentAt least 2 years of experience in big data technologiesAt least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud)

Nice-to-Have Skills

Master's Degree9+ years of experience in application development including PythonSQLScalaor Java4+ years of experience with a public cloud (AWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud)4+ years of experience with Distributed data/computing tools (MapReduceHadoopHiveEMRKafkaSparkGurobior MySQL)4+ years of experience with NoSQL (MongoCassandra)4+ years of data warehousing experience (Redshift or Snowflake)4+ years of UNIX/Linux experience2+ years of experience with Agile practices

Tools & Platforms

JavaScalaPythonSQLKafkaHadoopHiveEMRRedshiftSnowflakeUnixLinux

Required Skills

JavaScalaPythonSQLSparkKafkaHadoopMapReduceHiveEMRMongoDBCassandraRedshiftSnowflake

Hard Skills

JavaScalaPythonSQLSparkKafkaHadoopMapReduceHiveEMRMongoDBCassandraRedshiftSnowflakeUnix/LinuxShell scriptingAgile engineering practicesAWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud

Soft Skills

leadershipteam collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingmentoring

Industry & Role

Industry Banking

Job Function Lead data engineering initiatives to design and deliver cloud-based data solutions for banking.

Role Subtype Data Engineer

Tech Domains Java, Scala, Python, SQL, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Data Warehousing, Hadoop, Kafka

Clearance & Visa

Visa Sponsorship Yes

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