Distinguished Data Engineer- Card

Distinguished Data Engineer- Card

Distinguished Data Engineers are individual contributors who strive to be diverse in thought so we visualize the problem space. At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. Distinguished Engineers will significantly impact our trajectory and devise clear roadmaps to deliver next generation technology solutions.

• Deep technical experts and thought leaders that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices

• Visionaries, collaborating on Capital One’s toughest issues, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives of our customers and associates

• Role models and mentors, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community

• Evangelists, both internally and externally, helping to elevate the Distinguished Engineering community and establish themselves as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities

About the team: Capital One’s Card Core Architecture team is responsible for Card  modernization’s data strategy which includes data abstraction, data standardization, data products, GraphQL and API services to deliver reads and writes to clients, and analytical data strategy, in order to enable our business to drive business value across the customer lifecycle with real time intelligence, agility and flexibility enabling the art of the possible!  

In this role, you will work on delivering Proof-of-concepts, actionable architectures and designs with your hands-on deep technical expertise. You will act as a bridge between technical delivery and product management. You will work with other Distinguished Engineers to detail out high level designs to help software engineers with clarity to develop and engineer the products as envisioned.  You will provide mentorship and strategic guidance to our engineer, product, and leadership groups.

Responsibilities:

• Build awareness, increase knowledge and drive adoption of modern technologies, sharing consumer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in

• Strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where others’ ideas can be heard and championed; leverage expertise to grow skills in the broader Capital One team

• Promote a culture of engineering excellence, using opportunities to reuse and innersource solutions where possible

• Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization

• Operate as a trusted advisor for a specific technology, platform or capability domain, helping to shape use cases and implementation in an unified manner

• Lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting external talent to bolster Capital One’s Tech talent

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years of experience in data engineering

• At least 3 years of experience in data architecture

• At least 2 years of experience building applications in AWS 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters’ Degree

• 9+ years of experience in data architecture, engineering and delivery

• 5+ years of experience developing in Python, Java, Scala or SQL  

• 3+ years of architecting experience with AWS services such as S3, Glue, Aurora Global, DynamoDB, Kinesis, Lambda

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with data lakes including AVRO, Parquet, Iceberg, Delta, Spark, Kafka, Flink technologies      

• 3+ years of data modeling experience

• 2+ years of experience with ontology standards for defining a domain

• 1+ year of experience deploying machine learning models

• 3+ years of experience implementing big data processing solutions on AWS

• 3+ years of experience in building highly resilient distributed data systems

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position<