Lead Data Scientist - Alternative Data Strategy (Hybrid)

Capital One; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Manager, Data Scientist for Alternative Data Strategy in Chicago. You will lead a cross‑functional team to develop ML models, harness a broad tech stack, and drive data‑driven decisions across large datasets. Hybrid work applies as per policy.

You’ll evaluate vendors, engineer features, monitor systems, and guide model governance while collaborating with product, software engineering, and analytics teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field plus 6 years of experience performing data analytics
• Master’s degree in quantitative field or MBA with quantitative concentration plus 4 years of experience performing data analytics
• PhD in quantitative field plus 1 year of experience performing data analytics
• At least 1 year of experience leveraging 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 a cross‑functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love
• Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data
• Build machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation
• Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals

Skills

Statistical modeling

Machine learning

Python

Data analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field

Master’s Degree in a quantitative field or MBA with quantitative concentration

PhD in a quantitative field

Tools

Python

AWS

Spark

H2O

SQL

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Manager, Data Scientist for Alternative Data Strategy in Chicago. You will lead a cross‑functional team to develop ML models, harness a broad tech stack, and drive data‑driven decisions across large datasets. Hybrid work applies as per policy.

You’ll evaluate vendors, engineer features, monitor systems, and guide model governance while collaborating with product, software engineering, and analytics teams.