Capital One
Senior Director, Data Engineer
$286K–$392K
McLean, VA +3 · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Location
- McLean, VA
Richmond, VA
New York, NY
Plano, TX - Experience
- At least 9 years in data engineering; 7 years in people management; 7 years programming; 5 years driving technical delivery of roadmap features; 6 years designing and developing data pipelines; 4 years in data modeling and end-to-end data solutions. Preferred experience ranges from 5 to 12+ years across application development, cloud, distributed and streaming workloads, observability, governance, and related areas.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field; a Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
About the job
Leads the strategy, architecture, and delivery of identity analytics, access decisioning, and AI/ML security platforms, while managing a 50+ person organization.
What you'll do
- Set the enterprise strategy and multi-year roadmap for identity analytics, access decisioning, and AI/ML security platforms; partner with C-suite and CISO stakeholders.
- Lead and develop a 50+ person organization across Data Engineering, ML, Generative AI, and Security Products, and set technical direction.
- Build and operate real-time identity and threat-detection systems, ML infrastructure and pipelines, MLOps, agentic identity intelligence, and automated governance.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
- At least 9 years of experience in data engineering and 7 years of people management experience.
- At least 7 years of programming experience with Python, Java, or Scala; 5 years driving technical delivery of roadmap features; and 6 years designing and developing data pipelines.
- At least 4 years designing data models and end-to-end solutions using relational and non-relational database systems.
Nice to have
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Experience with public cloud, distributed or streaming data workloads, MLOps/data observability, governance, or data warehousing.
Pay
USD $314,800 - $359,300 base salary (McLean, VA); USD $343,400 - $392,000 base salary (New York, NY); USD $286,200 - $326,700 base salary (Plano, TX); USD $286,200 - $326,700 base salary (Richmond, VA)
Tools
Python, Java, Scala, SQL, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Spark
AI focus
Leads AI/ML security platforms and production GenAI applications for threat-intelligence summarization, incident triage, and access-policy recommendations; builds ML systems to secure AI agents and workloads and prepare for emerging AI cyber risks.
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