Distinguished Engineer (Enterprise Data Management)

Capital One - Washington, DC

Full-time - Senior

Washington, DC

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be part of a community of technical experts focused on defining the future of banking in the cloud. This role involves leading innovation, optimizing business outcomes, and driving technology solutions while promoting a culture of engineering excellence. You will mentor internal talent, actively recruit, and serve as a trusted advisor on key technologies and platforms, specializing in Enterprise Data Management.

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
• Create and own architecture decision records and demonstrate hands-on expertise to build quick POCs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 7 years of experience in General software Data engineering and Data architecture
• Enterprise architecture and design patterns
• Software specializations in Data technologies (Big Data processing at scale, Data Streaming, Data Warehousing, Python, Spark, Databricks)
• Web technologies (Microservices, Python, GoLang, Rust)
• Other specializations in Software engineering and architecture, Security engineering and architecture, Cloud computing (AWS / Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud), Solution architecture

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• At least 10 years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.
• At least 10 years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
• At least 3 years of experience with public or private cloud technologies
• 10+ years of experience with Networking (BGP, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, Cloud Networking and Data Center Networking)

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Financial benefits
• Inclusive set of benefits supporting total well-being