# Principal Associate, Data Science - Model Risk Office

**Company**: Capital One
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $147,100 - $167,900 for Chicago, IL; $161,800 - $184,600 for McLean, VA; $176,500 - $201,400 for New York, NY; $147,100 - $167,900 for Plano, TX
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As a Principal Associate, Data Science in Capital One's Model Risk Office, you will partner with a cross-functional team to identify and quantify risks associated with models.

You will leverage a broad stack of technologies, including Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, and Spark, to reveal insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading teams of data scientists who build machine learning models to challenge current champion models deployed in production

- Contributing to the model governance framework for the next generation of models

- Validating a wide variety of models across multiple business domains

- Presenting identified model risks to executives

The ideal candidate is innovative, creative, a leader, technical, and statistically-minded.

Basic qualifications include:

- A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) plus 5 years of experience performing data analytics

- A Master's Degree in a quantitative field or an MBA with a quantitative concentration plus 3 years of experience performing data analytics

- A PhD in a quantitative field

Preferred qualifications include:

- Master's Degree in a STEM field plus 3 years of experience in data analytics, or PhD in a STEM field

- At least 1 year of experience working with AWS

- At least 3 years' experience in Python, Scala, or R

- At least 3 years' experience with machine learning

- At least 3 years' experience with SQL

In terms of salary, Capital One offers the following ranges:

- Chicago, IL: $147,100 - $167,900

- McLean, VA: $161,800 - $184,600

- New York, NY: $176,500 - $201,400

- Plano, TX: $147,100 - $167,900

This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.

Capital One offers a comprehensive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Conda
- AWS
- H2O
- Spark
- machine learning
- SQL
- data analytics
- Statistics
- Economics
- Operations Research
- Analytics
- Mathematics
- Computer Science

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree in STEM field
- PhD in STEM field
- AWS experience
- Python experience
- Scala experience
- R experience
- machine learning experience
- SQL experience

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