Lead Software Development Engineer - Data Engineering

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Nottingham
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Overview

Lead Software Development Engineer - Data Engineering

Capital One UK is on a mission to build and modernise a cloud-based data ecosystem to unlock the power of data, increase financial inclusion and deliver transformative experiences to our customers.

What Youll Do
  • Lead a self-organised Data Engineering team to design and develop software features that are impactful for credit card consumers across diverse backgrounds.
  • Focus on a major portion of existing or new team software (e.g., significant component, set of features, mid-size application or service).
  • Align with the goals and vision of Product Management and your Outcome Team Leadership.
  • Drive engineering best practices (Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards across your team and broader engineering groups.
  • Innovate within your team and contribute within your technical domain.
What Were Looking For
  • Experience as a Technical Lead within a team, collaborating with stakeholders to deliver outcomes quickly while guiding other engineers and promoting best practices.
  • Strong programming skills with modern OO languages/technologies such as Java, Python, React/Typescript.
  • Ability to create architectural designs that meet business needs.
  • Effective communication across engineering to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.
  • Experience delivering high-quality applications at scale.
  • Experience with multiple test types and supporting the team with approaches such as Pair Programming, TDD and BDD.
  • Proven ability to lead and deliver complex projects with precision.
  • Experience developing and deploying applications in Cloud/AWS.
Whats In It For You
  • Rewarding role contributing to the product roadmap for an organisation undergoing transformation.
  • Opportunity to tackle scale, security, availability and performance challenges in the public cloud.
  • Strong and diverse career progression with Capital One University training and external providers.
  • Immediate access to core benefits including pension, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance; flexible benefits including season-ticket loans, cycle to work, and enhanced parental leave.
  • Open-plan workspaces with facilities to support you; Nottingham head-office includes a gym, subsidised restaurant and dedicated development resources.
What You Should Know About How We Recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people and building diverse, inclusive teams. Our recruitment process is fair and accessible, and we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages. We partner with organisations including Women in Finance, Race at Work Charters, Stonewall and UpReach to find talent from every walk of life.

  • REACH Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for minority ethnic associates and allies
  • OutFront provides LGBTQ+ support for all associates
  • Mind Your Mind signposting support and promoting wellbeing
  • Women in Tech promoting an inclusive environment in tech
  • EmpowHER network focused on developing future leaders, especially female talent
  • Enabled supporting associates with disabilities and neurodiversity

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact. All information will be kept confidential and used for applying a reasonable adjustment. For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please email. Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee third-party products or information available through this site. Capital One Financial is made up of several entities; UK positions are for Capital One Europe.

Who We Are

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company guided by values of collaboration, openness, innovation, teamwork, respect, and doing the right thing. We strive to help customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking.


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