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Elkridge, MD - USA

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 23-10-2025
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 theyre now open to remote work but there are a few important details:
  • Candidates must meet all client requirementsto 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 experienceno 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 notconsider anyone currently working as on-prem/Big Data Developers or Hadoop Developers.
  • Candidates must currently be working in the AWS spacewith experience in Airflow Databricks Snowflake and PySpark.
Capital One is open to strong profiles so if you know anyone who fits please let me know!

Top Skills Details
Discovers historical credit card data will be in the Capital One ecosystem in OneStreams 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 teams 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 Ones 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 Ones acquisition of Discover - 6 teams needed to migrate transform and load DFSs historical credit card data

Thanks & Regards
Jagdish
Manager IT Staffing
Email ID: Phone: 1


6095 Marshalee Dr Suite 250 Elkridge MD 21075

Consulting Technology Development
Offices: Maryland Georgia India

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