Sr Distinguished Data Engineer (Remote Eligible)

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia
Sr Distinguished Data Engineer (Remote Eligible)
Sr. Distingu ished Engineer - Data Products & Catalogs
Sr. 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.
As a Senior Distinguished Engineer, you will be a visionary leader driving the strategy, design, and development of scalable data products, modeling and enterprise-grade data catalogs. You will work closely with engineering, architecture and business teams to create innovative solutions that enhance data discoverability, governance and usability across the organization. Your role includes setting technical direction, mentoring engineering teams, and influencing enterprise-wide data architecture strategies to ensure alignment with organizational goals. This position requires deep expertise in data systems, metadata management, and cloud-based platforms, as well as a passion for fostering a culture of technical excellence & innovation. A few bullet points that describe this role include (but are not limited to):

• Deep technical experts and thought leaders that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices
• Visionaries, collaborating on Capital One's toughest issues, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives of our customers and associates
• Role models and mentors, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
• Evangelists, 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

Senior DEs are:

• Deep technical experts and thought leaders that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices
• Visionaries, collaborating on Capital One's toughest issues, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives of our customers and associates
• Role models and mentors, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
• Evangelists, 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:

• Play a pivotal role in setting the roadmap and overseeing the day-to-day management of our Data Product & Catalog platforms including: setting strategies and overseeing platform engineering in public cloud (AWS), cloud resource provisioning, ensuring low latency, high availability of cloud resources, cloud optimization, etc.
• Implement robust processes and operations dashboard to monitor platform performance, user feedback, and adherence to service level agreements (SLAs), observability, resiliency, and key operational metrics in real time.
• Collaborate with cyber, technology risk management, security and compliance teams to understand the company cyber, risk and compliance requirements. Work closely with product and engineering to ensure the platform adheres to industry best practices, corporate cyber and tech risk management standards
• Work closely with executive leadership to develop a long-term vision and roadmap for the platform operations enhancements

Capital One is open to hiring a Remote Employee for this opportunity
Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 9 years of experience managing Platform, infrastructure operations or Data Engineering.
• At least 5 years' experience with public cloud technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in "STEM" field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics)
• 5+ years of experience in managing large-scale, high-performance, distributed systems as a Site Reliability Engineer or a product engineer
• 5+ years years experience in setting up and scaling observability platform, providing monitoring and telemetry support and creating Operational health dashboards
• 3+ years experience in building systems and solutions within a regulated environment
• 3+ years of experience in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning or Cloud infrastructure
• 3+ years experience with managing distributed systems, multi-tenant, micro services, and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Experience partnering with technology peers responsible for data architecture and distributed computing infrastructure or platforms
• 5+ years of experience with machine learning lifecycle(building, training models, serving models, setting up cloud infrastructure or data pipelines) and familiarity with major Machine Learning frameworks

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): $321,500 - $366,900 for Sr Distinguished Data Engineer
Remote (Regardless of Location): $272,400 - $310,900 for Sr 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.
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
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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