Senior Lead Data Engineer – Enterprise Risk Management

Capital One

Senior Lead Data Engineer at Capital One leading Agile teams to develop full-stack solutions for enterprise risk management. Focusing on data engineering and cloud technologies to empower financial services.

Posted 5/27/2026full-timeMcLean • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $229,900 - $262,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Amazon RedshiftApacheAWSAzureCassandraCloudHadoopJavaKafkaLinuxMapReduceMicroservicesMySQLNoSQLOpen SourcePythonRDBMSScalaShell ScriptingSparkSQLUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collaborate with Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development
Lead a team of developers with experience in machine learning, distributed microservices, and full stack systems
Utilize programming languages like Java, Scala, Python and Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases and Cloud based data warehousing services
Share passion for tech trends and mentor other members of the engineering community
Collaborate with digital product managers to deliver cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree
At least 6 years of experience in application development
At least 2 years of experience in big data technologies
At least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Master’s Degree preferred
9+ years of experience in application development including Python, SQL, Scala, or Java preferred
4+ years of experience with a public cloud (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) preferred
5+ years experience with Distributed data/computing tools (MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Kafka, Spark, Gurobi, or MySQL) preferred
4+ year experience using Apache Flink or working on real-time data and streaming applications preferred
4+ years of experience with NoSQL implementation (Mongo, Cassandra) preferred
4+ years of data warehousing experience (Redshift or Snowflake) preferred
4+ years of experience with UNIX/Linux including basic commands and shell scripting preferred
2+ years of experience with Agile engineering practices preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

Performance based incentive compensation
Comprehensive health benefits
Competitive bonuses
Inclusivity in benefits for total well-being

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaScalaPythonSQLNoSQLMapReduceHadoopHiveApache Flinkdata warehousing

Soft Skills

collaborationleadershipmentoringcommunicationpassion for technology

Certifications

Bachelor's DegreeMaster's Degree