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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

In Capital One's Credit Review Models, Data and Innovative solutions team, we defend the company against model failures and find new ways of making better decisions with models. We use our statistics, software engineering, and business expertise to drive the best outcomes in both Risk Management and the Enterprise. We understand that we can't prepare for tomorrow by focusing on today, so we invest in the future: investing in new skills, building better tools, and maintaining a network of trusted partners.

We partner with best-in-class data scientists, analysts, credit risk management experts, and engineers to innovate solutions that directly impact the company's bottom line in a meaningful way. We do it all in a collaborative environment that values individual insight, encourages each associate to take on new responsibilities, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation.

Role Description

In this role, you will:

• Leverage a broad stack of technologies, such as, Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark, and more, to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data

• Build statistical and machine learning models to challenge the models in production

• Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals

• Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, credit risk experts, and product managers to deliver a product customers love

The Ideal Candidate is:

• 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.

• 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.

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 6 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 4 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 1 year of experience performing data analytics

• At least 1 year of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysis

• At least 1 year of experience working with machine learning

• At least 1 year of experience utilizing relational databases

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in "STEM" field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 3 years of experience in data analytics

• At least 4 years' experience in Python, Scala, or R for large scale data analysis

• At least 4 years' experience with machine learning

• At least 4 years' experience with predictive modeling

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