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From the employer's careers site First seen 31 Oct 2026

Principal Quantitative Analyst - Global Finance

Capital One McLean, VA senior full-time

Salary

$161,800 - $184,600 per year

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Description

As a Principal Quantitative Analyst at Capital One, you'll be part of a team that's leading the next wave of disruption in the finance industry, using the latest in cloud computing and machine learning technologies.

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with business lines to develop and enhance Capital Markets modeling and analytical frameworks.
  • Create novel analytical solutions to challenging business problems.
  • Identify opportunities to apply quantitative methods and automation solutions to improve business performance and process efficiencies.
  • Collaborate in a cross-disciplinary team to build cloud-based solutions grounded in data.
  • Apply deep expertise in mathematics, statistical and machine learning methods to generate critical insights and decision frameworks.
  • Provide technical guidance to business leadership.
  • Communicate technical subject matter clearly and concisely to individuals from various backgrounds.
  • Understand and navigate Risk Management Software to enable business analysis.

Requirements:

  • Master's degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science) or an MBA with a quantitative concentration.
  • 3 years of experience in quantitative analytics.
  • Experience with Python, R, or SQL.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 4 years of experience with Python, R or other statistical analyst software.
  • 4 years of experience manipulating and analyzing large data sets.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits.
  • Performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long-term incentives (LTI).

Salary Range: $161,800 - $184,600

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Large data sets analysis

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