Director of Data Science, CDX — Remote-Eligible

Capital One; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work eligible

Job summary

Capital One in McLean, VA is seeking a Director of Data Science to lead CDX initiatives, applying advanced analytics and machine learning to consumer and developer experiences. This remote-eligible role emphasizes strategic thinking, collaboration with engineering and product teams, and delivering scalable data products.

You’ll guide open-source tooling usage, cloud platforms, and a mix of structured and unstructured data to drive customer outcomes and business impact. Remote options available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field plus 9 years of analytics experience.
• Master’s degree in a quantitative field or MBA with a quantitative concentration plus 7 years of analytics experience.
• PhD in a quantitative field plus 4 years of analytics experience.
• At least 4 years of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysis.
• At least 4 years of experience working with machine learning.
• At least 4 years of experience utilizing relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Partner with a cross-functional team of software engineers, business analysts, and product managers to deliver products customers love that move the needle for the business.
• Leverage a broad stack of technologies - Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark, and more - to reveal insights from huge volumes of data.
• Build machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation.
• Translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals.

Skills

Open source languages

Machine learning

Relational databases

AWS experience

People management

Python/Scala/R

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Master's degree in quantitative field or MBA with quantitative concentration

PhD in quantitative field

Tools

Python

Conda

AWS

H2O

Spark

Job description

Capital One in McLean, VA is seeking a Director of Data Science to lead CDX initiatives, applying advanced analytics and machine learning to consumer and developer experiences. This remote-eligible role emphasizes strategic thinking, collaboration with engineering and product teams, and delivering scalable data products.

You’ll guide open-source tooling usage, cloud platforms, and a mix of structured and unstructured data to drive customer outcomes and business impact. Remote options available.