CareerPlan

Staff Data Engineer - (Director, IC - Card Tech)

McLean, VA, USFull-time$245k–$307k2026-11-09 → 2026-11-10
HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Lead the strategic direction of the data engineering practice, drive innovation in data platforms, and act as a trusted advisor for key data technologies and domains.

Role type

Staff Data Engineer (Director, IC - Card Tech)

Builds

Next-generation data platforms, scalable data solutions, and unified data architecture.

Domain

Banking / Cloud Data Engineering

Required skills

Data architecture, data pipeline design, cloud application development, data modeling, programming (Python/Java/Scala), distributed data workloads, real-time/streaming pipelines, data observability, data warehousing, NoSQL databases.

Preferred skills

Ontology standards, machine learning model deployment, data orchestration tools, data product development.

Technologies

AWS, EMR, Spark, Glue, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Airflow, Dagster, Monte Carlo, Splunk.

Responsibilities

Drive strategic alignment and integration decisions across multiple data systems; own end-to-end design and coding of critical data projects; mentor engineers and recruit talent; create and manage data strategy artifacts; research emerging trends in data and AI; influence architectural standards.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership