Principal Data Scientist, Fraud & Claims Protection

Information Technology Senior Management Forum; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Principal Data Scientist for the Bank Customer Protection Debit & Claims practice in McLean, VA. You will advance machine learning models that safeguard customers and streamline dispute resolution across billions of transactions.

You’ll partner with cross‑functional teams, apply cutting‑edge techniques, and translate insights into business impact. This role emphasizes leadership, scalable ML, and end‑to‑end model deployment in a modern cloud stack.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher in a quantitative field with data analytics experience.
• Master's degree or MBA with quantitative concentration plus data analytics experience.
• PhD in a quantitative field.

Responsibilities

• Partner with data scientists, analysts, engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love.
• Utilize Python, AWS, Spark, and related tech to analyze large numeric and textual data.
• Build ML models through design, training, evaluation, validation, and deployment.
• Translate complex work into tangible business goals for stakeholders.

Skills

Python

SQL

AWS

ML for predictions

Cross‑functional collaboration

LLMs

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Master's degree in quantitative field or MBA with quantitative focus

PhD in quantitative field

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Principal Data Scientist for the Bank Customer Protection Debit & Claims practice in McLean, VA. You will advance machine learning models that safeguard customers and streamline dispute resolution across billions of transactions.

You’ll partner with cross‑functional teams, apply cutting‑edge techniques, and translate insights into business impact. This role emphasizes leadership, scalable ML, and end‑to‑end model deployment in a modern cloud stack.