Manager, Data Science - PULSE Network, Business Intelligence

Capital One; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Performance-based incentives

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Manager, Data Science to lead data-driven pricing analytics and ML initiatives. You will work with pricing, analytics, and finance teams to unlock insights across billions of records, driving revenue growth and decision-making.

Join the PULSE Business Intelligence team to transform complex data into actionable intelligence, leveraging Python, Spark, H2O, and AWS, while guiding model development from design to deployment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor, Master or PhD in a quantitative field with analytics experience
• 1+ year of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large-scale data analytics
• 1+ year of experience working with machine learning
• 1+ year of experience utilizing relational databases

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with pricing, analytics and finance teams to optimize revenue.
• Use Python, AWS, Spark to reveal insights from large datasets.
• Build machine learning models from design to deployment and evaluation.
• Translate complex analyses into tangible business goals.

Skills

Python

SQL

Machine learning

R

Scala

Conda

AWS

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Master's degree in quantitative field

PhD in quantitative field

Tools

Spark

H2O

Job description

Data is at the center of everything we do. As a startup, we disrupted the credit card industry by individually personalizing every credit card offer using statistical modeling and the relational database, cutting edge technology in 1988! Fast-forward a few years, and this little innovation and our passion for data has skyrocketed us to a Fortune 200 company and a leader in the world of data-driven decision-making.

As a Manager, Data Science at Capital One, you’ll be part of a team that’s leading the next wave of disruption at a whole new scale, using the latest in computing and machine learning technologies and operating across billions of customer records to unlock the big opportunities that help everyday people save money, time and agony in their financial lives.

Team Description:

As a Data Scientist in the PULSE Business Intelligence team, you will work closely with Pricing, Analytics and Relationship management, product and finance teams to deliver data-driven insights that support strategic business decisions. We focus on transforming complex large data into actionable intelligence that helps optimize pricing strategies, protect and grow revenue, strengthen relationships with partners and improve overall business performance. We are seeking a Data Scientist to support pricing strategy through advanced analytics, predictive modeling.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with a cross-functional team of pricing analysts, finance analysts, data analysts and data engineers to optimize revenue.
• 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

The Ideal Candidate is:

• Innovative. You continually research and evaluate emerging technologies. You stay current on published state-of-the-art methods, technologies, and applications and seek out opportunities to apply them.
• Creative. You thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined problems. You love asking questions and pushing hard to find answers. You’re not afraid to share a new idea.
• Statistically-minded. You’ve built models, validated them, and backtested them. You know how to interpret a confusion matrix or a ROC curve. You have experience with clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, time series, and deep learning.
• A data guru. “Big data” doesn’t faze you. You have the skills to retrieve, combine, and analyze data from a variety of sources and structures. You know understanding the data is often the key to great data science.

Basic Qualifications:

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following with an expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date:
• A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) plus 6 years of experience performing data analytics
• A Master's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) or an MBA with a quantitative concentration plus 4 years of experience performing data analytics
• A PhD in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 3 years of experience in data analytics
• At least 1 year of experience working with AWS
• At least 4 years’ experience in Python, Scala, or R for large scale data analysis
• At least 4 years’ experience with machine learning and statistical modeling techniques.
• At least 4 years’ experience with SQL
• Experience with large-scale transaction datasets.

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

This role is Hybrid, with associates expected to consistently spend three days per week in the office.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Plano, TX: $179,400 - $204,700 for Mgr, Data Science

McLean, VA: $197,300 - $225,100 for Mgr, Data Science

Richmond, VA: $179,400 - $204,700 for Mgr, Data Science

Houston, TX: $179,400 - $204,700 for Mgr, Data Science

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.