Director, Data Engineering

Capital One is seeking a Director of Data Engineering to work in our Enterprise Data and Machine Learning organization. This individual will specifically be leading teams delivering and expanding highly performant and scalable Enterprise data solutions that drive Data Governance across the Data lifecycle for all data across the data ecosystem, while driving data engineering best practices. The candidate will have a solid understanding of responsible use of data and what it means to design new and emergent solutions to ensure that Capital One builds trust and integrity into our Systems. Think Compliance by Design!

This leader must have the ability to attract and recruit the industry’s best talent, and simultaneously have the technical ability to ensure that we build compelling, customer oriented solutions iterative delivery. Success in the role requires an innovative mind, a proven track record of delivering next generation software and data products, rigorous analytical skills, and a passion for creating market-leading software that integrates automation, machine learning, and data governance best practices.

Our Directors Are:

• Technologists: Strong engineering and technology background with the ability to learn quickly and go deep into our product and engineering solutions - appreciates have a DevOps mindset

• Effective Communicators: Excellent listener; proven collaborator with senior leaders, peers and staff

• Partnership Attitude: Have the competencies to build very strong partnerships with other technology leaders that enable your team’s ability to stay on the leading edge of industry solutions

• Curious: Active, engaging and collaborative style of working

• Passionate: Bring energy and enthusiasm to the job and organization

• Bold: History of taking smart, calculated risks and aggressively leading through change

• Achievers: Consistently attain/exceed individual and team goals

You will:

• Lead, manage, and grow multiple teams of product focused software & data engineers

• Embrace and incubate emerging technology and open source products across all platforms

• Work to modernize our existing tech stacks and data platforms

• Collaborate with internal teams to find areas of opportunities for automation and machine learning

• Partner with architects, product owners, data professionals, and software & data engineers to drive the implementation of new applications

• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across full-stack development tools and technologies.

• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments and provide operational support for the applications.

• Conduct design and code review to ensure compliance with standards

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years experience in data engineering

• At least 5 years of experience managing software or data engineering teams

• At least 2 years of experience with cloud based data platforms

• At least 2 years of experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in data engineering

• 7 years of experience managing software and data engineering teams

• 3 years of experience with Big Data and data processing

• 3 years of experience with AWS

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.