Locations: VA - McLean, United States of America, McLean, Virginia
Distinguished Engineer, Card Core Data Architecture
Capital One is looking for a Distinguished Engineer to modernize the data landscape of our financial core, which powers our flagship credit card business. As part of the data architecture team, you will have the opportunity to architect a platform that unleashes innovation through event-sourced, real-time data operations and analytics.
Distinguished 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 who help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practicesVisionaries, collaborating on Capital One's toughest issues, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives of our customers and associatesRole models and mentors, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product communityEvangelists, 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
Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop sustainable data driven solutions with current new gen data technologies to meet the needs of our organization and business customers
- Build and run forums to train resources across the enterprise
- Champion rollout of industry frameworks across the company (e.g. continuous integration)
- Contribute to strategic roadmap for a technical domain
- Handle highly ambiguous situations - e.g. severe operational breakdown of a mission critical platform, structuring sequencing projects with impacts across multiple platforms
- Proactively sponsor process and technology improvements
- Problem resolution, e.g. manages severe operational breakdown of a mission critical platform
- Provide technical guidance to team members
- Sought after by technical resources as the subject matter expert for a technical domain
- Develop frameworks that are used by multiple teams and applications
- Participate in external speaking engagements
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree
- At least 7 years of experience in software or data engineering
- At least 7 years of experience in data management, data warehousing, or in unstructured data environments
- At least 3 years experience with one or more of the following technologies: Cassandra, Accumulo, Spark, Hadoop, Apache Avro, MongoDB, or Zookeeper
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's Degree
- 2+ years of experience with Agile engineering practices
- 7+ years experience with the Hadoop stack (MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Hbase)
- 7+ years experience with NoSQL implementation (Mongo, Cassandra)
- 7+ years experience developing Java-based software solutions
- 7+ years experience in at least one scripting language (Python, Perl, JavaScript, Shell)
- 7+ years experience with Relational Databases
- 7+ years experience designing, developing, and implementing ETL
- 7+ years experience with UNIX/Linux
- 7+ years of experience leading the full life-cycle of IT development and platform support
Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $269,400 - $307,500 for Distinguished Data Engineer
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate's offer letter.
This 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.
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City's Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia's Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.
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