Capital One
Data Engineer 5
$230K–$286K
New York, NY +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
McLean, VA - Experience
- At least 6 years in application development; 4 years each in distributed data, SQL, a listed programming language, and data pipeline design/development; 2 years in data modeling and end-to-end data solutions. Preferred experience ranges from 3+ to 9+ years, depending on specialty.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field; preferred Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
About the job
Leads the design and delivery of cloud data platforms and pipelines for a travel platform, including a cross-cloud migration that supports personalized customer experiences.
What you'll do
- Architect and deliver scalable, resilient data pipelines and platforms, leading major data initiatives and architectural decisions.
- Collaborate with Agile teams and product partners to build and support cloud-first data solutions; communicate outcomes to stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers and establish reusable data engineering patterns across platforms and pipelines.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
- At least 6 years of application development experience (internship experience does not apply).
- At least 4 years of experience in distributed data, SQL, programming with Python, Java, or Scala, and designing and developing data pipelines.
- At least 2 years of experience in data modeling and end-to-end data solutions using relational and non-relational databases.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Experience with public cloud environments, distributed data tools, streaming pipelines, observability or orchestration tools, NoSQL databases, data warehousing, Agile, or reusable data products.
Pay
$229,900 - $262,400 USD base salary (McLean, VA); $250,800 - $286,200 USD base salary (New York, NY)
Tools
Python, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, SQL, Java, Scala, AWS
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