Head of Data Science & AI Strategy

ITSMF; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Director, Data Science to lead a portfolio of AI products and guide the science that underpins them. You will design experiments, model telemetry, and translate results into AI strategy for executives, working across billions of records to unlock business value.

You will partner with engineers, researchers, and solutions architects to drive decisions through modeling, promote simple, scalable cloud-based solutions, and shape model risk and governance across the

Qualifications

• At least 6 years of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysis.
• At least 6 years of experience working with machine learning.
• At least 6 years of experience utilizing relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Partner with a cross-functional team of software engineers, distinguished researchers, and solutions architects to drive great decisions through modeling.
• Define and drive towards an end state that is based on simplicity and the adoption of digital technologies, cloud hosting, and open source software.
• Distill the details of complex interconnected modeling systems to influence senior business leaders on model strategy, business use, and risks.
• Assess, challenge, and defend state-of-the-art decision-making systems to internal and regulatory partners.
• Shape our practice of building machine learning models, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation.
• Oversee development of benchmark and challenger models to stress test critical modeling decisions.

Skills

Open‑source languages

Machine learning

Relational databases

Education

Bachelor's Degree in quantitative field

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

PhD in quantitative field

Tools

Python

Scala

R

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Director, Data Science to lead a portfolio of AI products and guide the science that underpins them. You will design experiments, model telemetry, and translate results into AI strategy for executives, working across billions of records to unlock business value.

You will partner with engineers, researchers, and solutions architects to drive decisions through modeling, promote simple, scalable cloud-based solutions, and shape model risk and governance across the