Senior Data Science Lead - Credit Risk & Strategy

Jobtailor; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a leader for the Partnerships Customer Management Data Science team. You will mentor specialists delivering models for credit risk, account usage, and portfolio financials, and own the team roadmap for end-to-end development.

You will partner with analysts, software engineers, and product managers to deliver customer products using Python, AWS, H2O, Spark, and other open-source tools, ensuring production-ready solutions with measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• Degree in a quantitative field and substantial analytics experience.
• Advanced ML experience including model development, validation, and backtesting.
• Experience with Python and open-source data tools at scale.
• Cloud experience across AWS and related platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Partnerships Customer Management Data Science team.
• Mentor specialists delivering models for credit risk, usage, and portfolio financials.
• Own the team roadmap and manage end-to-end model development.
• Align with business stakeholders to ensure impact.
• Oversee production-ready models with speed and sustainability.
• Collaborate with analysts, engineers, and PMs to deliver customer products.

Skills

Python Programming

Machine Learning

Data Analysis

Project Management

People Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

7+ years data analytics experience

Master’s degree/MBA with quantitative focus

PhD with 2+ years model dev experience

Tools

AWS

H2O

Spark

Conda

Job description

Capital One is seeking a leader for the Partnerships Customer Management Data Science team. You will mentor specialists delivering models for credit risk, account usage, and portfolio financials, and own the team roadmap for end-to-end development.

You will partner with analysts, software engineers, and product managers to deliver customer products using Python, AWS, H2O, Spark, and other open-source tools, ensuring production-ready solutions with measurable business impact.