Senior Associate, Data Scientist - Card Intelligence
About the role
Data is at the center of everything we do. As a startup, we disrupted the credit card industry by individually personalizing every credit card offer using statistical modeling and the relational database, cutting edge technology in 1988! Fast-forward a few years, and this little innovation and our passion for data has skyrocketed us to a Fortune 200 company and a leader in the world of data-driven decision-making. As a Data Scientist at Capital One, you’ll be part of a team that’s leading the next wave of disruption at a whole new scale, using the latest in computing and machine learning technologies and operating across billions of customer records to unlock the big opportunities that help everyday people save money, time and agony in their financial lives.
The US Card Data Science organization at Capital One leverages our massive wealth of customer data to drive business strategy and deliver world-class customer experiences. Our team builds and deploys sophisticated data science and machine learning models across the entire credit card lifecycle—including marketing, acquisitions, underwriting, and fraud prevention. In this role, you will turn complex insights into real-world impact, shaping financial products that serve and protect millions of cardholders daily.
Responsibilities
- Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love
- Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data
- Build machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation
- Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals
Requirements
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following with an expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date:
- A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) plus 2 years of experience performing data analytics
- A Master's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) or an MBA with a quantitative concentration
Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics), or PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics)
- Experience working with AWS
- At least 2 years’ experience in Python, Scala, or R
- At least 2 years’ experience with machine learning
- At least 2 years’ experience with SQL
Skills
- Innovative: continually researches and evaluates emerging technologies; stays current on published state-of-the-art methods, technologies, and applications; seeks out opportunities to apply them.
- Creative: thrives on bringing definition to big, undefined problems; loves asking questions and pushing hard to find answers; not afraid to share a new idea.
- Technical: comfortable with open-source languages; passionate about developing further; has hands-on experience developing data science solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
- Statistically-minded: has built models, validated them, and backtested them; knows how to interpret a confusion matrix or a ROC curve; has experience with clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, time series, and deep learning.
- A data guru: “Big data” doesn’t faze you; has the skills to retrieve, combine, and analyze data from a variety of sources and structures; understands that understanding the data is often the key to great data science.
Benefits
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
Pay
McLean, VA: $135,600 - $154,800 for Sr Assoc, Data Science
New York, NY: $148