Lead Data Scientist, Card Intelligence & Personalization

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Data Scientist in McLean, VA to partner with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers. You will build ML models across marketing, underwriting, and fraud, using Python, Spark, AWS, and open‑source tools to unlock insights from billions of records and drive customer outcomes.

The ideal candidate has strong experience in ML, SQL, and cloud platforms, and can translate analyses into business impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, OR Analytics or related field with required experience.
• Master's degree or MBA with quantitative concentration plus relevant analytics experience.
• PhD in a quantitative field may substitute for experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional data scientists, engineers, and PMs to deliver a product customers love.
• Leverage Python/Scala/R, AWS, H2O, Spark to extract insights from large datasets.
• Build ML models through design, training, evaluation, validation, and deployment.
• Translate complex technical work into tangible business goals for stakeholders.

Skills

Python

Scala

R

Machine Learning

SQL

AWS

Open‑source tools

Spark

Conda

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

Spark

H2O

Conda

Python

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Data Scientist in McLean, VA to partner with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers. You will build ML models across marketing, underwriting, and fraud, using Python, Spark, AWS, and open‑source tools to unlock insights from billions of records and drive customer outcomes.

The ideal candidate has strong experience in ML, SQL, and cloud platforms, and can translate analyses into business impact.