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AWS Tech Lead
Capital One
100% Remote -
6 month contracting opportunity with strong potential of extension
5 Tech Lead spot
I could really use your help with a position at Capital One. The good news is they’re now open to remote work, but there are a few important details:
Top Skills' Details
Discover's historical credit card data will be in the Capital One ecosystem in OneStream's OneLake location and these Engineering teams will be responsible for picking the data up, transforming and loading into target state, which could be Snowflake or AWS S3
6 Tech Leads to lead 6 separate Data Engineering teams (Capital One formers preferred)
Tech Leads are accountable for team's work being delivered on time, will lead sprint ceremonies for team, accountable for problem solving with senior managers, must be able to pivot and adapt quickly based on requirements, incredibly high caliber talent needed in tech leads
Must Have
• AWS(EMR/Glue, S3, Lambda, Cloudwatch), Python/Java, Spark, Databricks, SQL, Bash)
• Python use: scripting, building new data pipelines (not app dev)
Data warehousing experience (Snowflake)
• APIs
• Agile engineering practices & JIRA usage
Nice to Have
- Kafka, Airflow, Open Table formats (Delta, Hudi, Iceberg), Splunk, NewRelic, Github, Jenkins, prior Capital One experience highly preferred
Must be located in Capital One core locations (listed in order of preference)
- Chicago
- McLean
- Richmond
- Plano
Secondary Skills - Nice to Haves
Kafka
airflow
• Agile engineering practices & JIRA usage
Nice to Have
- Kafka, Airflow, Open Table formats (Delta, Hudi, Iceberg), Splunk, NewRelic, Github, Jenkins
Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
Large scale project related to Capital One's acquisition of Discover
Business Drivers/Customer Impact
DFS data migration effort - Capital One is undertaking a critical data migration initiative to ingest all historical Discover Card data into its internal systems.
While the data already resides within the Capital One ecosystem, the challenge lies in efficiently ingesting it into its target state, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and usability across platforms.
This migration is an enterprise imperative to enable downstream analytics, compliance, and operational continuity using DFS data. Success requires tight coordination across engineering, data governance, and platform teams to minimize disruption and maximize business value.
Why is the position open(provide details)
Capital One's acquisition of Discover - 6 teams needed to migrate, transform and load DFS's historical credit card data
Thanks & Regards
Jagdish
Manager – IT Staffing
Email ID: jagdish@polarits.com | Phone: 1 443 489 4433
6095 Marshalee Dr, Suite 250, Elkridge, MD 21075
www.polarits.com
Consulting | Technology | Development
Offices: Maryland | Georgia | India
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Capital One
100% Remote -
6 month contracting opportunity with strong potential of extension
5 Tech Lead spot
I could really use your help with a position at Capital One. The good news is they’re now open to remote work, but there are a few important details:
- Candidates must meet all client requirements to qualify for remote.
- They also need to live near a Capital One hub (Chicago, Boston, NYC, Virginia, Texas, etc.).
- Every consultant submitted must have previous leadership experience—no exceptions.
- Must have Financial experience and/or Capital One Former. Being a former is not required but they must have experience in the financial/Fintech sector
- They will not consider anyone currently working as on-prem/Big Data Developers or Hadoop Developers.
- Candidates must currently be working in the AWS space with experience in Airflow, Databricks, Snowflake, and PySpark.
Top Skills' Details
Discover's historical credit card data will be in the Capital One ecosystem in OneStream's OneLake location and these Engineering teams will be responsible for picking the data up, transforming and loading into target state, which could be Snowflake or AWS S3
6 Tech Leads to lead 6 separate Data Engineering teams (Capital One formers preferred)
Tech Leads are accountable for team's work being delivered on time, will lead sprint ceremonies for team, accountable for problem solving with senior managers, must be able to pivot and adapt quickly based on requirements, incredibly high caliber talent needed in tech leads
Must Have
• AWS(EMR/Glue, S3, Lambda, Cloudwatch), Python/Java, Spark, Databricks, SQL, Bash)
• Python use: scripting, building new data pipelines (not app dev)
Data warehousing experience (Snowflake)
• APIs
• Agile engineering practices & JIRA usage
Nice to Have
- Kafka, Airflow, Open Table formats (Delta, Hudi, Iceberg), Splunk, NewRelic, Github, Jenkins, prior Capital One experience highly preferred
Must be located in Capital One core locations (listed in order of preference)
- Chicago
- McLean
- Richmond
- Plano
Secondary Skills - Nice to Haves
Kafka
airflow
• Agile engineering practices & JIRA usage
Nice to Have
- Kafka, Airflow, Open Table formats (Delta, Hudi, Iceberg), Splunk, NewRelic, Github, Jenkins
Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
Large scale project related to Capital One's acquisition of Discover
Business Drivers/Customer Impact
DFS data migration effort - Capital One is undertaking a critical data migration initiative to ingest all historical Discover Card data into its internal systems.
While the data already resides within the Capital One ecosystem, the challenge lies in efficiently ingesting it into its target state, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and usability across platforms.
This migration is an enterprise imperative to enable downstream analytics, compliance, and operational continuity using DFS data. Success requires tight coordination across engineering, data governance, and platform teams to minimize disruption and maximize business value.
Why is the position open(provide details)
Capital One's acquisition of Discover - 6 teams needed to migrate, transform and load DFS's historical credit card data
Thanks & Regards
Jagdish
Manager – IT Staffing
Email ID: jagdish@polarits.com | Phone: 1 443 489 4433
6095 Marshalee Dr, Suite 250, Elkridge, MD 21075
www.polarits.com
Consulting | Technology | Development
Offices: Maryland | Georgia | India
Note: If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original message (including any attachments) in its entirety. Thank you