Capital One Distinguished Engineer Risk Management Data Architect 

United States, Virginia, Arlington 

289614872

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia Distinguished Engineer, Risk Management Data Architect

Capital One is looking for a Distinguished Engineer with extensive experience in data engineering, data architecture and data modeling to drive the design and implementation of a high performance data ecosystem that supports real-time, intelligent experiences to enable our Risk Management functions. In this role, you will help shape the Risk Management Data domains that will drive our journey towards standardized data assets and data products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and Implement data architecture standards, frameworks and guidelines to ensure data platform efficiency and to ensure high quality data for gaining insights / downstream consumptions

• Lead the creation of data models and ontologies to standardize data definitions, relationships and semantics across systems

• Collaborate with extended teams and stakeholders to establish data standards, metadata management practices and data quality frameworks

• Design scalable architectures that integrate various data sources, systems, and platforms while minimizing duplication

• Partner with engineering, data analysis, data science and business teams to align data solutions with business needs. Mentor technical teams in data architecture best practices

• Develop comprehensive architectural documentation and communicate data architecture principles to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Conduct exploratory data analysis to elucidate deficiencies and opportunities with tangible evidence

• Partner with other Distinguished Engineers across the enterprise to identify and foster investments in shared data services and platforms

• Engage with senior business product leads to understand the business strategy, value propositions, relative priorities and criteria for success.

What skills do you need to have:

• Hands on experience with AWS Cloud data technologies including RDS, DynamoDB, S3 and Glue ETL

• Experience designing and implementing event based stream processing solutions using technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, Spark and Flink

• Ability to design and implement high availability, multi-region data replication for mission critical applications

• Experience designing and implementing data management solutions that enable Data Quality, Reference Data Management, and Metadata Management.

• A track record of designing and implementing end-to-end data pipelines supporting both production and analytic use cases

• Comfortable coding with Python or Scala and proficient in SQL

• In-depth understanding of AVRO, Parquet and DeltaLake data formats

• Background using multiple data storage technologies including relational, document, key/value, graph and object stores

• Demonstrated ability to partner with internal product and intent owners to help define requirements and outcomes for data-focused initiatives

• Ability to decompose large problems and execute smaller, manageable bodies of work to demonstrate continuous architecture delivery

• Understanding of machine learning and AI data infrastructure needs

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree

• At least 7 years of experience in Data Architecture and Data Engineering

• At least 7 years of Data modeling and platform design

• At least 2 years of experience in cloud computing (building applications in AWS )

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field

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

• At least 2 years of experience using Python, SQL or Scala

• At least 1 year of experience deploying machine learning models

• Experience implementing knowledge graphs

• Familiarity with Industry standards related to Data

• Experience with data mesh, data lakehouse architectures and real-time data pipelines

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $274,800 - $313,600 for Distinguished EngineerThis role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

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