Senior Staff Data Engineer

Capital One Financial

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Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
McLean, VARichmond, VANew York, NY
Salary
$286,200–$326,700 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
8 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $306k
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This role pays more than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $157,550–$230,425 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $306k versus about $194k for comparable roles.

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About Capital One Financial

Capital One Financial is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products, known for its data-driven approach to consumer and commercial finance. Industry: Financial Services & Banking

Capital One Financial currently has 1783 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 942 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Staff Data Engineer

Sr. Staff Data Engineer (Remote -Eligible) joins the Pipelines and External Data team within Enterprise Data as a senior individual contributor. This role involves driving technical strategy for data pipelines and sharing capabilities, focusing on innovation, platform scalability, and operational excellence. You will serve as a trusted advisor for specific technologies while designing and coding end-to-end solutions to ensure seamless, governed data flow across the organization. The position requires hands-on expertise in AWS infrastructure, Lakehouse architecture, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks. Candidates must be proficient in Python, SQL, Java, or Scala to build reusable data products and manage complex systems. You will also mentor engineers, research emerging trends in AI and engineering, and develop roadmaps for the enterprise-scale data platform while ensuring high performance and resiliency across all business units.

What does a Data Engineer earn in Virginia?

Median $157550 from 63 postings across 8 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and develop scalable data pipelines using Python, SQL, Java, or Scala within AWS environments.
  • Define the technical strategy for data pipelines and shared capabilities across all business lines.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to shape use cases and implementation for specific technology domains.
  • Create and manage data strategy artifacts including governance policies, architecture blueprints, and product roadmaps.
  • Research emerging trends in data and AI to develop a roadmap for integrating innovations into the platform.
  • Mentor internal engineers and actively recruit new talent to build the technical community.
  • Produce code samples, blog posts, and other materials to share knowledge across the organization.
  • Drive engineering excellence by promoting reusable solutions and high standards for performance and resiliency.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field (preferred).
  • At least 9 years of experience in data engineering.
  • At least 5 years of experience in data architecture.
  • At least 3 years of experience building applications in AWS.
  • At least 7 years of experience programming with Python, Java, or Scala.
  • 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 solutions using relational and non-relational databases.

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