Capital One

financial services

SeniorAssociate,DataScientist-CorporateStrategy

$136–155k McLean, Virginia, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Senior Associate, Data Scientist - Corporate Strategy at Capital One. Skills: data science, statistical modeling, machine learning, data analysis, data engineering, software engineering, modeling. 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”

What You'll Achieve.

drive the performance and direction of the company; formulating enduring and profitable growth and value enhancement strategies; ensure the maximum impact; deliver a product customers love; unlock the big opportunities that help everyday people save money, time and agony in their financial lives

Industry & Context.

financial services
Problems you'll solve

data-driven decision-making; unlock the big opportunities; revealing insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data; seeing patterns and commonalities that can create a bigger picture out of small pieces, anticipating what’s around the corner

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

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, 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

Nice to Have

Master’s Degree in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics), or PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics), At least 2 years’ experience in Python, Scala, or R, At least 2 years’ experience with machine learning, At least 2 years’ experience with SQL

What You'll Do.

Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists

and product managers to deliver a product customers love

Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python

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

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

create insights on consumer behavior

and peer performance by analyzing and applying statistical modeling and machine learning to a wealth of customer-level and market-level data

work on a diverse set of strategic projects based on the top of house priorities leveraging your data science skills

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers; highly collaborative (comfortable partnering with all levels of the organization); Build strong, trusted relationships and operate in an influential manner with executives

Communication Scope

translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals

Process & Methodology

Multi-task, able to handle multiple priorities in parallel, and extremely well organized

Full Job Description

Senior Associate, Data Scientist - Corporate Strategy 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 Corporate Strategy team advises our company’s CEO and senior leadership on the most critical decisions facing the company across financial services, technology, and beyond. We engage in a discrete number of high impact issues that drive the performance and direction of the company. Projects focus primarily on formulating enduring and profitable growth and value enhancement strategies and then working with our business and staff teams to ensure the maximum impact. The Integrated Data Engineering, Analysis, and Science—IDEAS—team within Corporate Strategy, creates insights on consumer behavior, market conditions, and peer performance by analyzing and applying statistical modeling and machine learning to a wealth of customer-level and market-level data. In this high visibility role, you will work on a diverse set of strategic projects based on the top of house priorities leveraging your data science skills. **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, Co

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