Data Developer

Our Mission

We’re on a mission to be a force for good in lending. Throughout our almost 30-year history, we’ve consistently been recognised as a great place to work; in 2026, Capital One was officially ranked 9th in the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list. Hear from our team about what it’s like working at Capital One UK.

About the Role

Data is at the heart of everything we do. We operate a multitude of systems that store, process and use data to support our operations, analytics and reporting, all driving us towards our business goals of helping our customers and associates succeed. Ensuring we have a thorough understanding and robust management of the data the UK business creates and uses is crucial. This is essential to ensuring our business is well managed, giving users ultimate confidence that the data they are using is available and of the highest quality.

We are seeking an energetic and forward-thinking individual to join us to help build, deliver, improve and lead on data management across the business. In this role, you will work on a variety of strategic and technical activities to solve complex problems, drive technical convergence, and safely operationalise Artificial Intelligence (AI) frameworks to unlock the power of data through excellent data management.

What You'll Do

With a permanent high focus on data management and modern tech initiatives, you will support the UK business and wider Enterprise across two core transformative pillars:

AI in Data Management & Strategy

• Team Capability & Collaboration: Help create an AI-literate Data Management team, understanding AI tooling risks and benefits, whilst collaborating with broader analytics teams to champion key data considerations.

• Frameworks & Governance: Identify key data management principles to enable safe, scaled AI, and evolve our frameworks to meet changing AI and regulatory needs.

• Operationalise & Unlock Value: Drive and implement AI within the Data Management Team (DMT), leading the thinking on near-term value unlocks that enable end-users to self-serve through AI.

• Strategic Alignment: Understand and plan for advances in Enterprise AI Data Management Strategy, advising on how the UK business should be structured to align.

Technological Convergence & Core Infrastructure

• Migration Leadership: Serve as a technical lead for convergence migration, covering data storage, definitions, lineage, quality, modelling, access and consumption.

• End-to-End Coordination: Ensure critical migration factors are met, including setting up correct access profiles, migrating metadata/data quality rules, and setting up UK analytical teams for success.

• Enterprise Integration & Roadmapping: Partner with Enterprise teams to plan migration sequencing and dependencies, whilst driving our broader data strategy by identifying industry maturity gaps.

• Stakeholder Engagement & Risk: Collaborate with stakeholders to drive policy-compliant practices across the data lifecycle, executing data management assessments through 2nd and 3rd-line reviews.

• Talent Development: Coach, nurture and develop associates across the business to ensure a thorough understanding of their data management responsibilities and the value behind them.

The Skills and Experience You Need

Core Skills & Capabilities

• Critical Problem Solving: Ability to use critical thinking to resolve complex problems, acting as an owner to identify, document and manage data issues.

• Influence & Communication: Strong judgment coupled with excellent communication and networking skills to influence stakeholders and drive meaningful business change.

• User-Centric Solutioning: Capability to provide actionable advice and create solutions or communications that help end-users self-serve, access and navigate data.

• Innovation & Advocacy: A track record of bringing new ideas and establishing new processes that support data strategy, whilst acting as an ambassador for the team.

• Delivery & Leadership: Proven ability to manage structured business processes, nurture stakeholder relationships and successfully deliver large, value-add activities.

Technical Knowledge & Experience

• Data & Risk Governance: A strong understanding of, or keen interest in, Data Management, Data Risk Management fundamentals and policy compliance frameworks.

• AI & Innovation Guardrails: Understanding of AI technologies, skills and use cases, with the ability to apply AI to drive operational efficiencies using proper guardrails.

• Cloud Infrastructure: Basic operational knowledge of Cloud data ecosystems, AWS infrastructure or modern analytical data warehouses.

• Lifecycle Management: Experience with practices supporting the data management lifecycle, including registration, usage, quality, retention and external data sharing.

• Assurance & Control: Experience executing data management assessments through control performance or engaging with 2nd and 3rd-line business reviews.

Where and how you'll work

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office. 

We embrace a hybrid approach to work. You'll spend three days a week in the office (Tuesday-Thursday), with Monday and Friday being dedicated work-from-home days.

Our offices are designed to inspire and support you. At our Nottingham head office, you'll find an on-site gym, restaurant and dedicated Learning Loft. Our London office boasts a rooftop running track and coffee bar.

What’s in it for you

We invest in the growth of our people alongside our business. You will have extensive opportunities to learn and develop your career, including access to up to £5,000 in funding for external qualifications.

In addition to career development, our comprehensive benefits package is designed to grow with you, ensuring your wellbeing is prioritised at every stage of your career:

• Wealth & Future: Competitive pension and performance-based bonus schemes

• Holidays: Start with 25 days of annual leave, increasing with tenure. Need more? You have the option to buy 5 additional days.

• Health: Access premium care through our private medical insurance.

• Family Support: We champion your milestones with enhanced parental leave.

A full list of our benefits is available here.

What you should know about how we recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say. That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. 

We value diversity, inclusion and belonging at our core. We empower our associates to do great work by creating an inclusive culture—one that values diverse perspectives, fosters collaboration and encourages innovative ideas—and a place where associates of all backgrounds can thrive by bringing their most authentic selves to work. We call this our Culture of Belonging, and it rests at the heart of our business.

Our associate-led Business Resource Groups were created to help support our diverse population and include over 10 groups across our offices. Because each Business Resource Group is as unique as the population it serves, they offer a range of activities, networking opportunities, special events and learning programmes to associates.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact ukrecruitment@capitalone.com  All information will be kept confidential and will only be used for the purpose of applying a reasonable adjustment.