# Senior Associate, Data Scientist - Model Risk Office

**Company**: Capital One
**Location**: McLean, VA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $123,300 - $140,700 for Sr Assoc, Data Science
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Data is at the center of everything we do at Capital One. As a Data Scientist in the Model Risk Office, you'll be part of a team that's leading the next wave of disruption, using the latest in computing and machine learning technologies to unlock big opportunities that help everyday people save money, time, and agony in their financial lives.

The Capital One Model Risk Office is dedicated to safeguarding the company from model failures while enhancing decision-making through models, including unique risks associated with Generative AI (GenAI). You'll partner with a cross-functional team to identify and quantify risks associated with models, leveraging a broad stack of technologies to reveal insights hidden within huge volumes of multi-modal data.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Partnering with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to identify and quantify model risks

- Building machine learning models to challenge deployed models and contributing to the model governance framework

- Validating models across multiple business domains and presenting identified model risks to executives

The ideal candidate is innovative, creative, technical, statistically-minded, and a data guru. You should have experience with open-source languages, cloud computing platforms, and data science solutions.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science) plus 2 years of experience performing data analytics

- Master's Degree in a quantitative field or an MBA with a quantitative concentration

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Master's Degree or PhD in a STEM field

- Experience working with AWS

- At least 2 years' experience in Python, Scala, or R for large-scale data analysis

- At least 2 years' experience with machine learning

**Salary Information:**

- Chicago, IL: $123,300 - $140,700 per year

- McLean, VA: $135,600 - $154,800 per year

- Richmond, VA: $123,300 - $140,700 per year

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

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Scala
- R
- machine learning
- data analysis
- statistics
- data science

### Nice to have
- AWS

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