Lead Data Engineer
Capital One Financial
Quick summary
Market check
How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays more than 81% of similar roles. Most pay $126,800–$200,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $214k versus about $164k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, processing transactions between financial institutions and merchants using its extensive network of credit, debit, and prepaid card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services
Mastercard currently has 150 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $122,000–$207,000 across 142 roles with salary data.
Most-posted roles
At a glance
The Lead Data Engineer joins the Data Commercialization Platform team to design, build, and scale cloud-native data and Business Intelligence solutions. This role involves developing scalable data pipelines, analytics frameworks, and platform capabilities within a modern multi-cloud data ecosystem. The engineer will drive multi-cloud architectures across AWS and Azure, ensuring secure interoperability between Databricks, Snowflake, and various cloud services. Key responsibilities include building CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and automation frameworks while implementing secure access patterns using RBAC and IAM. The position requires deep expertise in Apache Spark, PySpark, Delta Lake, SQL, and Python. The work focuses on solving complex platform requirements by optimizing workloads for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency while establishing engineering standards for development, testing, monitoring, and operational excellence across distributed data solutions.
Skills
What you'll do
What we're looking for
More like this
Capital One Financial
Capital One Financial
Capital One Financial
3M
Capital One Financial
Capital One Financial