Capital One Distinguished Engineer Director - Card Core Data Architecture 

United States, Virginia, Arlington 

298762376

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia Distinguished Engineer, Director - Card Core Data Architecture

You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders. Our Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.

Distinguished Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. Distinguished Engineers are individual contributors who will significantly impact our trajectory and devise clear roadmaps to deliver next generation technology solutions. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.

Key responsibilities:

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain

• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions

• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation

• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability

• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community

• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact

• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community

• Involved with products software development lifecycle to have a hands-on impact

You will:

• 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 data architecture or enterprise architecture experience

• At least 5 years of database management, Data Lake or data warehouse experience

• At least 5 years of public cloud experience (AWS, Microsoft, Azure, Google Cloud)

• At least 2 years of experience building real-time data products and data streaming applications

Preferred Qualifications:

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

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

• 3+ years of experience with Big Data components such as AVRO, Parquet, Iceberg, Hudi, Spark, Kafka, Flink etc Experience with developing strategy and implementing target architectures

• ​7+ years experience architecting and delivering data systems or platforms

• 7+ years of data governance, data access, data quality, data lineage, data monitoring, and data security controls experience

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

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

• 3+ years in data engineering including experience in distributed data pipelines

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $274,800 - $313,600 for Distinguished Engineer Illinois (Hybrid On-Site): $256,200 - $292,400 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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