Senior Manager, Data Scientist - Card DFS Integration

Capital One; Deerfield (IL); On-site; USD 209,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sponsorship available

Performance incentives

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Science in Riverwoods, IL to lead model development and execution on large-scale datasets. You’ll collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver high-impact data products and ensure robust model governance.

The role requires advanced ML knowledge, strong programming skills (Python/Scala/R), and experience in cloud and big data tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in a quantitative field with data analytics experience.
• 2+ years using open source languages for large-scale data analytics.
• 2+ years ML experience and relational database usage.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver data products customers love.
• Build ML models end-to-end from design to deployment.
• Scale analysis across billions of records using Python, AWS, and Spark.
• Translate complex data findings into clear approaches for stakeholders.

Skills

Python

Scala

R

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

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

PhD in quantitative field

Tools

AWS

H2O

Spark

Relational databases

Python stack (Conda)

Job description

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

Team Description

The Discover Card Customer Management Data Science team is responsible for ensuring all models used to underwrite the Discover Card portfolio are well-managed and creating the destination state that builds on the best of both worlds from both Discover’s models and Capital One’s models.

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

The Ideal Candidate is:

• Customer first. You love the process of analyzing and creating, but also share our passion to do the right thing. You know at the end of the day it’s about making the right decision for our customers.
• 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.
• Statistically-minded. You’ve built models, validated them, and back tested 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 7 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 plus 5 years of experience performing data analytics
  - A PhD 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
• At least 2 years of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysis
• At least 2 years of experience working with machine learning
• At least 2 years of experience utilizing relational databases

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in "STEM" field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 4 years of experience in data analytics
• At least 1 year of experience working with AWS
• At least 1 year of experience managing people
• At least 5 years’ experience in Python, Scala, or R for large scale data analysis
• At least 5 years’ experience with machine learning

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

McLean, VA: $229,900 - $262,400 for Sr Mgr, Data Science

Riverwoods, IL: $209,000 - $238,500 for Sr Mgr, Data Science

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well‑being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part‑time status, exempt or non‑exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

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