Lead Data Engineer; Finance Tech

Lead Data Engineer (Finance Tech)

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast‑paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you’ll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Data Engineers who are passionate about marrying data with emerging technologies.

As a Capital One Lead Data Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One.

Finance Tech is responsible for transforming Capital One's financial engine into the most trusted, nimble, and insightful in the industry. Our core mission is to engineer outcomes that strategically enable the Finance organization and the broader Enterprise to remain efficient. This mission is driven by four technical and functional pillars:
Forecasting & Resiliency, providing advanced decision support;
Treasury & Trade managing sophisticated cash and investment life cycles; and Accounting & Reporting, ensuring the integrity of our general ledger and regulatory commitments. Powering these pillars are our Data and Core capabilities, which manage the orchestration, sourcing, and pipelines for critical financial data products.

By defining the next generation of financial technology, we ensure that every business process is backed by high‑fidelity tracking and reporting. Together, we are not just supporting the bottom line – we are building a strategic enabler that operates as a world‑class financial engine.

• Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full‑stack development tools and technologies
• Work with a team of developers with deep experience in machine learning, distributed microservices, and full stack systems
• Utilize programming languages like Java, Scala, Python and Open Source RDBMS and No
  
  SQL databases and Cloud based data warehousing services such as Redshift and Snowflake
• Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, and mentoring other members of the engineering community
• Collaborate with digital product managers, and deliver robust cloud‑based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help millions of Americans achieve financial empowerment
• Perform unit tests and conduct reviews with other team members to make sure your code is rigorously designed, elegantly coded, and effectively tuned for performance

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 4 years of experience in application development (internship experience does not apply)
• At least 2 years of experience in big data technologies
• At least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

• 7+ years of experience in application development including Python, SQL, Scala, or Java
• 4+ years of experience with a public cloud (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• 4+ years experience with Distributed data/computing tools (Map Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Kafka, Spark, Gurobi, or MySQL)
• 4+ year experience working on real‑time data and streaming applications
• 4+ years of experience with No
  
  SQL implementation (Mongo, Cassandra)
• 4+ years of data warehousing experience (Redshift or Snowflake)
• 4+ years of experience with UNIX/Linux including basic commands and shell scripting
• 2+ years of experience with Agile engineering practices
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F‑1 OPT, F‑1 STEM OPT, F‑1 CPT, J‑1, TN, E‑2, E‑3, L‑1 and O‑1, or any EADs or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).

Cambridge, MA: $197,300 - $225,100 for Lead Data Engineer

McLean, VA: $197,300 - $225,100 for Lead Data Engineer

Richmond, VA: $179,400 - $204,700 for Lead Data Engineer

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well‑being. Learn more at  Eligibility varies based on full or part‑time status, exempt or non‑exempt status, and management level.

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non‑discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug‑free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries.