Senior Software Development Engineer - Data Engineering

Senior Software Development Engineer - Data Engineering

About This Role

It’s an exciting time at Capital One UK.

Location:

Nottingham Trent House, United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

We’re on a mission to continue to build and modernise the cloud-based data ecosystem to unlock the power of data, increase financial inclusion and deliver transformative experiences to our customers. The Win with Data team owns the services that form our Data Ecosystem, creating and maintaining APIs, backed by Java and Python microservices to manage and unleash the value of data across the full data lifecycle.

From capturing data in real time, ensuring accuracy and usability, to enabling analysis for deep insight backed by cloud-based data stores and scalable machine learning, the Capital One Win with Data team is leading the way. We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to join us on our mission, where you’ll use several languages (such as Java, Python, React/Typescript) to build both front and backend solutions, solving complex problems as we continue to build our next generation data ecosystem, to help our customers.

• Work as part of a self-organised Data engineering team to design and develop software features that are impactful for the lives of credit card consumers across all walks of life.
• Focus on a major portion of existing or new team software (e.g., significant component, set of features, mid-size application or service).
• Collaborate to achieve the goals and vision shared by Product Management and your Outcome Team Leadership.
• Drive engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality) and set standards across your team and wider engineering teams.
• Innovate within your team, initiative area and contribute within your technical domain.

• Experience performing as a Technical Lead within a team, working with stakeholders to deliver outcomes at pace, while influencing across wider Engineering teams and coaching more junior engineers.
• Strong programming skills with good working knowledge of modern OO languages/technologies such as Java, Python, React/Typescript.
• Demonstrable knowledge of creating architectural designs that meet business needs.
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate across engineering to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.
• Demonstrated experience delivering high-quality applications at scale.
• Experience writing multiple test types and supporting the team with approaches such as Pair Programming, TDD and BDD.
• Experience leading and delivering complex projects with precision.

Experience in any of the following would be great; we aim to help you develop in these areas too:

• Working with the cloud/AWS and the opportunities it brings.
• Being comfortable working in a complex regulated environment.

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office. We have a hybrid working model that gives flexibility to work from our offices and from home. You’ll be based in the office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

• Contribute to the product roadmap for an organisation committed to transformation.
• Help solve scale, security, availability and performance challenges as we continue our journey into the public cloud.
• Strong and diverse career progression with Capital One University training programmes and external providers.
• Immediate access to core benefits including pension, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance, with flexible benefits such as season-ticket loans, cycle to work, and enhanced parental leave.
• Open-plan work spaces and facilities designed to inspire and support you;
  Nottingham head-office includes a fully-serviced gym, subsidised restaurant and dedicated development resources.