Global Data Science Director — Payments & ML Leadership

Capital One National Association; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director of Data Science for the Global Payment Network in the Chicago area. You will lead a team that partners with engineers and product managers to deliver data-driven payment solutions, using Python, Spark, and cloud technologies to transform billions of records into actionable insights.

You’ll drive modeling, evaluation, and deployment while translating complex results into financial outcomes that benefit customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 10+ years in data analytics, or Master’s with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in open source languages for large scale data analysis.
• Minimum 4 years of experience with machine learning.
• Minimum 4 years of experience with relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver a data-driven product.
• Utilize Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark to uncover insights across massive datasets.
• Build ML models through design, training, evaluation, validation, and deployment.
• Translate complex analyses into tangible business goals.

Skills

Python

Scala

R

Machine learning

Big data

H2O

Spark

Conda

Cloud computing

Open-source

Education

Bachelor’s Degree + 10 years data analytics

Master’s Degree + 8 years data analytics

PhD + 5 years data analytics

Tools

AWS

Relational databases

SQL

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director of Data Science for the Global Payment Network in the Chicago area. You will lead a team that partners with engineers and product managers to deliver data-driven payment solutions, using Python, Spark, and cloud technologies to transform billions of records into actionable insights.

You’ll drive modeling, evaluation, and deployment while translating complex results into financial outcomes that benefit customers.