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Capital One

Senior Director, Data Engineer

Capital One

. Lead, manage, and grow multiple teams of product-focused software and data engineers .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $286,200 - $392,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AirflowAmazon RedshiftAWSAzureCassandraCloudDynamoDBJavaMongoDBPythonScalaSparkSplunkSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead, manage, and grow multiple teams of product-focused software and data engineers
  • Incubate emerging technology and open-source products across platforms
  • Modernize existing technology stacks and data platforms
  • Collaborate with internal teams on automation and machine learning opportunities
  • Partner with architects, product owners, data professionals, and engineers to implement new applications
  • Work across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions
  • Deploy applications into AWS environments and provide operational support
  • Conduct design and code reviews for standards compliance
  • Communicate technical concepts and data outcomes to internal and external stakeholders
  • Oversee data platform and pipeline design and health, including scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency
  • Mentor engineers and elevate team capabilities through hands-on technical contribution
  • Lead transformative data initiatives end to end, making architectural decisions and evaluating platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
  • At least 9 years of experience in data engineering
  • At least 7 years of people management experience
  • At least 7 years of experience programming with Python, Java, or Scala
  • At least 5 years of experience driving technical delivery of roadmap features
  • At least 6 years of experience designing and developing data pipelines
  • At least 4 years of experience in data modeling and designing end-to-end data solutions using relational and non-relational database systems
  • Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization
  • Preferred: Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Preferred: experience with Python, SQL, Scala, or Java; AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud; EMR, Spark, Glue, or Databricks; streaming data pipelines; Monte Carlo, Splunk, Airflow, Dagster; MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB; Snowflake, Redshift; Agile; reusable data products; Data Governance, Data Standardization, and Data Modeling

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives (LTI)
  • Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive health, financial, and other benefits supporting total well-being
  • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities