Remote Senior Director, Data Science Leader

Capital One; United States; Hybrid; USD 315,000 - 392,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director, Data Science to guide teams building AI/ML solutions that scale across billions of records. The role emphasizes leadership, experimental design, and governance of model strategy for enterprise impact.

You will partner with engineers, researchers, and architects to simplify architectures, promote cloud-based open-source tooling, and translate complex modeling results into strategic guidance for executives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field plus 11 years of data analytics experience
• Master’s degree in a quantitative field or an MBA with a quantitative concentration plus 9 years of data analytics experience
• PhD in a quantitative field plus 6 years of data analytics experience
• At least 6 years of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysis
• At least 6 years of experience working with machine learning
• At least 6 years of experience utilizing relational databases

Responsibilities

• Partner with a cross-functional team of software engineers, researchers, and solutions architects to drive decisions through modeling
• Define and drive toward an end state with digital technologies, cloud hosting, and open source software
• Distill complex modeling systems for senior leaders on strategy, use and risk
• Assess and defend state-of-the-art decision-making systems to internal and regulatory partners
• Shape the practice of building ML models from design through training, evaluation, and implementation
• Oversee development of benchmark and challenger models to stress test critical decisions

Skills

Leadership

Open-source languages

Python/Scala/R

Machine learning

Relational databases

AWS

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

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

PhD in quantitative field

Tools

AWS cloud services

API design

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director, Data Science to guide teams building AI/ML solutions that scale across billions of records. The role emphasizes leadership, experimental design, and governance of model strategy for enterprise impact.

You will partner with engineers, researchers, and architects to simplify architectures, promote cloud-based open-source tooling, and translate complex modeling results into strategic guidance for executives.