Lead Data Scientist, Alternative Data Strategy

Capital One; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 215,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is looking for a Manager, Data Scientist for the Alternative Data Strategy team in New York. You will partner with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver data-driven credit decisioning and build scalable ML features using Python, AWS, Spark, and related tools.

The role involves guiding model development, governance for vendor models, and mentoring team members. This hybrid position requires some on-site presence at the New York office.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field plus 6 years of analytics experience
• Master's degree in a quantitative field or MBA with quantitative concentration plus 4 years of analytics
• PhD in a quantitative field plus 1 year of analytics experience
• At least 1 year of experience using open source programming languages for large-scale data analysis
• At least 1 year of experience working with machine learning
• At least 1 year of experience utilizing relational databases

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional team to deliver a product customers love
• Leverage Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark to analyze large datasets
• Build ML models from design to deployment and evaluation
• Translate technical work into tangible business goals

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

Conda

AWS

H2O

Spark

Job description

Capital One is looking for a Manager, Data Scientist for the Alternative Data Strategy team in New York. You will partner with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver data-driven credit decisioning and build scalable ML features using Python, AWS, Spark, and related tools.

The role involves guiding model development, governance for vendor models, and mentoring team members. This hybrid position requires some on-site presence at the New York office.