Senior Director, Data Science — Card Analytics Leader

ITSMF; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director, Data Scientist for US Card who will drive data science initiatives across the credit card lifecycle. You will lead modeling efforts, collaborate with engineers and product managers, and apply Python, AWS, and open-source tools to extract actionable insights from billions of records.

The role emphasizes leadership, technical excellence, and the ability to translate complex analyses into business impact for millions of customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field plus 11 years analytics experience
• Master's degree in a quantitative field or MBA with quantitative concentration plus 9 years analytics experience
• PhD in a quantitative field plus 6 years 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 cross-functional teams to deliver a product customers love
• Leverage Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark to reveal insights from large data sets
• Build machine learning models across design, training, evaluation, validation and deployment
• Translate complex work into tangible business goals

Skills

Python

R/Scala

ML

Databases

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

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

PhD in quantitative field

Tools

Python

Conda

AWS

H2O

Spark

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director, Data Scientist for US Card who will drive data science initiatives across the credit card lifecycle. You will lead modeling efforts, collaborate with engineers and product managers, and apply Python, AWS, and open-source tools to extract actionable insights from billions of records.

The role emphasizes leadership, technical excellence, and the ability to translate complex analyses into business impact for millions of customers.