Capital One Seeking Visionary Technologist for Director, Data Engineering Role
Capital One, a leader in the banking industry, is seeking a Director, Data Engineering. This individual is expected to be both a visionary technologist and an inspirational leader. This role represents an exciting opportunity, acting as a bridge between the reliable legacy systems and the innovative speed of modern fintech. The selected candidate will lead a team of high-caliber engineers in building a world-class data ecosystem.
Job Role: Unifying and Modernizing Bank Data
The Director, Data Engineering is expected to accelerate data modernization across the bank. This individual will define, build, and operate on a unified, resilient, and compliant Enterprise Data Platform. The goal is to enable bank domains to produce and leverage modern data for a modern bank. The position focuses on setting the technical vision and driving complex data transformations for the banking domains. Furthermore, this leader will partner closely with enterprise teams to develop highly resilient data platforms.
The successful candidate must have the ability to attract and recruit the industry’s best talent. They must also possess the technical prowess to ensure the development of compelling, customer-oriented solutions using an iterative methodology. The role demands an innovative mind, a proven record of delivering next-generation software and data products, rigorous analytical skills, and a passion for delivering customer value through automation, machine learning, and predictive analytics.
Qualities of Successful Directors
Capital One values Directors who are:
- Technologists: They should have a strong engineering and technology background with a quick learning ability and an in-depth understanding of our product and engineering solutions. A DevOps mindset is essential.
- Effective Communicators: Excellent listening skills are crucial, along with a proven record of collaboration with senior leaders, peers, and staff.
- Partnership Attitude: The ability to build strong partnerships with other technology leaders, enabling the team to stay on the leading edge of industry solutions, is a must.
- Curious: A hands-on, “roll up your sleeves” collaborative style of working is preferred.
- Passionate: Directors should bring energy and enthusiasm to the job and the organization.
- Bold: A history of taking smart, calculated risks and aggressively leading through change is desirable.
- Achievers: Consistently attaining or exceeding individual and team goals is a key attribute.
Responsibilities of the Role
The Director, Data Engineering 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 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.
Qualifications for the Role
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- At least 7 years of experience in software engineering or data engineering
- At least 5 years of people management experience
- At least 3 years of experience with Big Data and data streaming
- At least 3 years of experience with cloud-based data platforms (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering or data engineering
- 5+ years of experience in Data Transformation, Data Standardization, and Data Modeling
- 3+ years experience creating and maturing a Data Architecture function
- 3+ years of experience with Data Lake Infrastructure, Data Warehousing, and Data Analytics tools
- 3+ years of experience with AWS
Capital One is committed to providing a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits to support the total well-being of its employees. It promotes a drug-free workplace and is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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