Capital One · 23 hours ago
Senior Lead Data Engineer (Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg, Spark + SQL workload optimizations)
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$225K/yr - $257K/yr
6+ years expCapital One is a financial services company that focuses on technology and innovation. They are seeking a Senior Lead Data Engineer who will drive major transformations by collaborating with Agile teams to develop and support technical solutions, optimize workloads, and lead a team of developers in utilizing advanced data technologies.
BankingCredit CardsFinanceFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design/architect, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies
Lead workload optimization and develop/architect capabilities to drive optimizations at scale (e.g. SQL, Spark optimizations)
Lead 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 NoSQL databases and Cloud based data warehousing services such as Redshift, Snowflake and Databricks
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
At least 6 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)
Preferred
Master's Degree
4+ years of data warehousing experience (Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift)
9+ years of experience in application development including Python, SQL, Scala, or Java
2+ years of experience engineering/leveraging Machine Learning & Gen AI capabilities and tools (Iceberg, Delta adoption, Cortext)
5+ years experience with Distributed data/computing tools (MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Kafka, Spark, Gurobi, or MySQL)
4+ years of experience with AWS cloud services or other public cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
4+ year experience working on large-scale Data Platforms
4+ years of experience with NoSQL implementation (Mongo, Cassandra)
4+ years of experience with UNIX/Linux including basic commands and shell scripting
Benefits
Performance based incentive compensation
Cash bonus(es)
Long term incentives (LTI)
Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits
Company
Capital One
Capital One is a financial services company that provides banking, credit card, auto loan, savings, and commercial banking services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.45BKey Investors
Berkshire Hathaway
2025-09-11Post Ipo Debt· $2.75B
2025-01-30Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2023-05-15Post Ipo Equity· $954M
Leadership Team
Lo Li
CTO, Managing Vice President Retail Bank
Daniel Arellano
Senior Vice President, Business Cards and Payments
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