Principal Associate, Data Scientist - Mainstreet Card

Capital One National Association; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Financial benefits

Inclusive work environment

Opportunity for sponsorship

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Principal Associate, Data Scientist to drive innovation in the financial sector. This role involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies to analyze vast datasets, build machine learning models, and enhance decision-making processes. As part of a dynamic team, you will contribute to creating impactful solutions that improve customer experiences. If you are passionate about data and eager to make a difference, this opportunity offers a platform to showcase your skills and drive meaningful change in the industry.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data analytics with a quantitative degree.
• Experience with machine learning and statistical modeling.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver customer-centric products.
• Build and validate machine learning models to extract insights from data.

Skills

Statistical Modeling

Machine Learning

Data Analytics

Python

SQL

AWS

Clustering

Classification

Deep Learning

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field

Master's Degree in a quantitative field

PhD in a quantitative field

Tools

AWS

H2O

Spark

Conda

Job description

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Principal Associate, Data Scientist - Mainstreet Card

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 Data Scientist 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

We are part of the Card Intelligence team, one of the biggest Data Science organizations at Capital One. Locally, we drive progress in our Mainstreet Card Acquisitions model ecosystem and pursue horizontal research beyond that. We strive to fundamentally improve outcomes for our business and customers through advances in our modeling and decisioning systems.

Role Description

In this role, you will:

1. Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love.
2. 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.
3. Build machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation.
4. Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals.

The Ideal Candidate is:

1. 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.
2. Customer first. You love the process of analyzing and creating, but also share our passion to do the right thing. You know at the end of the day it’s about making the right decision for our customers.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. A leader. You challenge conventional thinking and work with stakeholders to identify and improve the status quo. You're passionate about talent development for your own team and beyond.

Basic Qualifications:

1. 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:
1. A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) plus 5 years of experience performing data analytics.
2. 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 3 years of experience performing data analytics.
3. A PhD in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field).

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Master’s Degree in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 3 years of experience in data analytics, or PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics).
2. At least 1 year of experience working with AWS.
3. At least 3 years’ experience in Python, Scala, or R.
4. At least 3 years’ experience with machine learning.
5. At least 3 years’ experience with SQL.

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

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. No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law.