Principal Data Scientist - Modeling and Analysis

Capital One; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Principal Data Scientist, where data drives innovation and transformation. In this dynamic role, you'll leverage your expertise in Python and machine learning to tackle complex problems and influence strategic decisions. Collaborate with a talented team to design experiments, build predictive models, and visualize data insights that empower customers and enhance their financial lives. Enjoy a hybrid work environment that values diversity and fosters professional growth, along with a comprehensive benefits package that supports your well-being and career development. This is your chance to make a significant impact in a leading financial institution.

Benefits

Latest hardware choice (MacBook Pro or HP EliteBook)

Annual conference travel with manager approval

Internal training opportunities

$5000/year education budget

Flexible work hours and dress code

Qualifications

• 3+ years in open source programming for large scale data analysis.
• Experience with machine learning models and SQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Extracting and cleaning large data sets for analysis.
• Building and deploying machine learning models in production.

Skills

Python

R

Machine Learning

Data Analysis

SQL

Data Visualization

Experiment Design

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field

Master’s Degree or PhD

Tools

GitHub

scikit-learn

H2O

XGBoost

TensorFlow

AWS

Jenkins

CircleCI

Job description

161 Bay Street (93021), Canada, Toronto, Toronto, Ontario,

Principal Data Scientist - Modeling and Analysis

At Capital One, data is at the center of everything we do. When we launched 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 100 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 distributed computing technologies and operating across billions and billions of customer transactions to unlock the big opportunities that help everyday people save money, time, and agony in their financial lives.

Working with us

Associates working in the hybrid model are expected to come into the downtown Toronto office 3 days a week across Tuesdays to Thursdays. As was true before the pandemic, expectations of being in the office will be balanced with personal life flexibility.

At Capital One, we’re committed to diversity, inclusion and belonging. We strive to build a culture where diverse perspectives are valued, innovative ideas are encouraged and inclusive behaviours are embedded in everything we do to positively impact associates.

We’re focused on helping associates live well—physically, financially and emotionally. When you join us, we support you and those who are most important to you, offering full coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and dependents. We’ve designed our benefits program to be flexible, comprehensive and consistent across our organization. From health and fitness center discounts to training and professional development programs—and much more—you’ll discover that Capital One is committed to helping you live your best life.

On any given day, you could be:

• Writing software to extract, clean, and investigate large, messy data sets of numerical and textual data
• Building and maintaining machine learning models (Gradient Boosting Machines, Neural Networks, etc.) from development, validation, through to deployment in production
• Designing rich data visualizations to communicate complex ideas to customers or company leaders
• Designing and analyzing experiments to optimize business strategies
• Investigating the impact of new technologies on the future of digital banking and the financial world of tomorrow

The Ideal Candidate will be:

• Curious: You ask why, you explore, you’re not afraid to share your disruptive ideas. You know Python and are constantly exploring new open source tools, and hitting up stack overflow on a regular basis.
• A Wrangler: You know how to programmatically extract data from various databases and APIs, bring it through a transformation or two, and model it into human-readable insights (Matplotlib, Seaborn, Tableau, etc.).
• Creative: Big, undefined problems and petabytes of data don’t frighten you. You’re used to working with abstract data, and you love discovering new narratives in unmined territories.
• Proactive: You want to share your knowledge with your peers and contribute back to inner/open source projects which you might consume.
• An Expert: You have superpowers you can’t wait to share. You have expertise in key aspects of model development, model deployment, or inference such that you are the go-to person in those areas.
• An Emerging Leader: You feel comfortable running point on big, complex projects. You know how to motivate others and bring them along your journey. You can paint a compelling picture of your recommendations and manage the message toward both technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits

• Your choice of hardware - latest MacBook Pro or HP EliteBook and all the monitors you want!
• With Manager approval, you can travel to a conference of your choice annually - PyCon, PyData, AWS re:Invent, KDD, etc.
• Various internal training opportunities across our US and Canada locations
• $5000/yr education budget
• Hybrid work environment with flexible work hours, dress code, and environment

Thirty years after Capital One was started it’s still led by its founder. Be ready to join a community of the smartest people you’ve ever met, who see the customer first, and want to use their data skills to make a difference.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field
• At least 3 years of experience in open source programming languages for large scale data analysis (Python, R, or Scala)
• At least 3 years of experience with version control system like GitHub
• At least 3 years of experience with machine learning or predictive modeling (scikit-learn, H2O, XGBoost, TensorFlow, etc...)
• At least 3 years of experience with relational databases and programming in SQL

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree or PhD
• Experience working with AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc.)
• Experience working with advanced Git Workflows (Pull Requests, Code Reviews, Issues, and Branching)
• Experience writing unit tests and integrating with CICD tools (Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)
• Experience with experimental design
• At least 5 years’ experience in Python or R
• At least 5 years’ experience with machine learning / predictive modeling (scikit-learn, H2O, XGBoost, TensorFlow, etc.)
• At least 5 years’ experience in SQL

We may use your information for automated decision making. We may, for certain purposes, render a decision based exclusively on automated processing of your personal information as a part of the candidate screening process.

Capital One Canada is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants and will meet the needs of those requiring reasonable accommodations.

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