Senior Associate, Data Scientist - Operational Risk Management

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Associate, Data Scientist in Operations Risk Management to leverage Python, SQL, and ML techniques on large-scale data. You will collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver risk insights and data-driven decisions that influence executive-level risk governance.

The role emphasizes building/discovering opportunities using NLP and AI-powered methods, translating results into business outcomes, and operating in a fast-paced,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field with 2+ years of data analytics experience.
• Master's degree in a quantitative field or MBA with a quantitative concentration.
• Strong programming in Python, Scala, or R.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven risk insights.
• Build ML models and evaluate them end-to-end.
• Translate complex analyses into tangible business goals.
• Work with large-scale data across cloud platforms.

Skills

Python

SQL

R

Machine Learning

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

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

Tools

AWS

Spark

H2O

Conda

Job description

Senior Associate, Data Scientist - Operational Risk Management

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 records to unlock the big opportunities that help us manage risk so everyday people save money, time and agony in their financial lives.

Team Description

The Operational Risk Analytics, Innovation, and Reporting team owns and drives end-to-end data analysis and reporting of Capital One's operational risk performance, delivering critical insights to Senior Executives and the Board. The team is responsible for the governance, monitoring, and analysis of operational risk data, as well as developing data-driven insights to inform strategic risk management decisions and practices. As a Senior Data Scientist you'll be part of a team that’s leading the next wave of disruption in risk data at a whole new scale. You will use the latest in computing and machine learning technologies to unlock the big opportunities that help drive efficiency and improve risk management, and you will do it all in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation. You will be the driving force to experiment, innovate, and create next-generation features powered by the latest emerging NLP and Generative AI technologies. If you love a fast-paced, highly rewarding environment, and you love being a builder and communicator, this is the place for you.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love
• 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.
• Technical. You're comfortable with open-source languages and are passionate about developing further. You have hands-on experience developing data science solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
• 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 2 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in "STEM" field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics), or PhD in "STEM" field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics)
• Experience working with AWS
• At least 2 years of experience in Python, Scala, or R
• At least 2 years of experience with machine learning
• At least 2 years of experience with SQL

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

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