Senior Director, Global Payments Data Science — Drive ML Strategy

Capital One; New York (NY); On-site; USD 294,000 - 336,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director, Data Scientist for its Global Payment Network to lead advanced analytics and ML initiatives across billions of records. You will partner with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver data-driven products at scale.

The ideal candidate combines leadership, innovation, and hands-on expertise in Python, open-source tools, and cloud platforms to drive business impact in the payments ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field plus 11 years of data analytics experience.
• Master’s Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, OR Analytics, Mathematics, CS) or an MBA with a quantitative concentration plus 9 years of data analytics experience.
• A 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 data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love.
• Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, Conda, AWS, 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.
• Translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals.

Skills

Python

Machine learning

Relational databases

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

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

PhD in quantitative field

Tools

AWS

Spark

H2O

Conda

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director, Data Scientist for its Global Payment Network to lead advanced analytics and ML initiatives across billions of records. You will partner with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver data-driven products at scale.

The ideal candidate combines leadership, innovation, and hands-on expertise in Python, open-source tools, and cloud platforms to drive business impact in the payments ecosystem.