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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Principal, Data Scientist - Card Intelligence

Capital One Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$161,800 - $184,600 per year

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Description

As a Principal Data Scientist at Capital One, you'll lead the next wave of disruption using the latest computing and machine learning technologies across billions of customer records. You'll partner with a cross-functional team to deliver products customers love, leveraging a broad stack of technologies , Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark, and more , to reveal insights hidden within huge volumes of data.

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver customer-centric products
  • Leverage a broad stack of technologies to analyze large datasets and build machine learning models
  • Develop models through all phases, from design to implementation
  • Translate complex insights into tangible business goals
  • Adhere to Capital One's hybrid policy regarding required on-site presence

The Ideal Candidate:

  • Is customer-focused and passionate about doing the right thing
  • Continuously researches and evaluates emerging technologies
  • Thrives on solving big, undefined problems and pushing boundaries
  • Challenges conventional thinking and leads stakeholders to improve the status quo
  • Is technically skilled with open-source languages and cloud computing platforms
  • Has experience with machine learning, clustering, classification, and deep learning
  • Is a data guru with skills to retrieve, combine, and analyze data from various sources

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science) plus 5 years of data analytics experience
  • Master's Degree in a quantitative field or an MBA with a quantitative concentration plus 3 years of data analytics experience
  • PhD in a quantitative field

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's Degree in STEM field plus 3 years of data analytics experience
  • PhD in STEM field
  • Experience with AWS, Python, Scala, R, machine learning, and SQL

Salary Information:

  • Cambridge, MA: $161,800 - $184,600
  • McLean, VA: $161,800 - $184,600
  • New York, NY: $176,500 - $201,400

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive health, financial, and other benefits
  • Performance-based incentive compensation, including cash bonuses and long-term incentives

Skills

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