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Senior Data Scientist at Capital One New York, NY

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Job description

Senior Data Scientist job at Capital One. New York, NY. Senior Data Scientist

Team Description

The Business Card & Payments Data Science team builds industry leading machine learning models to power credit underwriting decisions. These models support emerging business card product strategies, and are a key part of our credit infrastructure. The team builds full‑spectrum modeling solutions across customer life cycles, engaging in strong collaboration with business stakeholders, product, and software/ML engineering teams to problem‑solve and develop innovative approaches that define our long‑term modeling strategy.

Role Description

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 of your work into tangible business goals.

The Ideal Candidate is:

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.

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.

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 2 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.

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s Degree in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics), or PhD in “STEM” field.

Experience working with AWS.

At least 2 years’ experience in Python.

At least 2 years’ experience with machine learning.

At least 2 years’ experience with SQL.

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

New York, NY: $145,100 - $165,600 for Sr Assoc, Data Science

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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug‑free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23‑A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections ; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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new york, NY, 10261, US

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