# Principal Data Analyst

**Company**: Capital One
**Location**: McLean, VA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $131,300 - $149,800 for McLean, VA and $119,400 - $136,200 for Richmond, VA
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As a Principal Data Analyst at Capital One, you will leverage analytic and technical skills to innovate, build, and maintain well-managed data solutions and capabilities to tackle business problems.

On any given day, you will be challenged on three types of work – Innovation, Business Intelligence, and Data Management:

**Innovation**

- Use Open Source/Digital technologies to mine complex, voluminous, and different varieties of data sources and platforms

- Build well-managed data solutions, tools, and capabilities to enable self-service frameworks for data consumers

- Demonstrate ability to explore and quickly grasp new technologies to progress varied initiatives

**Business Intelligence**

- Partner with the business to provide consultancy and translate the business needs to design and develop tools, techniques, metrics, and dashboards for insights and data visualization

- Drive analysis that provides meaningful insights on business strategies

**Data Management**

- Drive an understanding and adherence to the principles of data quality management including metadata, lineage, and business definitions

- Work collaboratively with appropriate Tech teams to manage security mechanisms and data access governance

- Build and execute tools to monitor and report on data quality

The ideal candidate will have:

- Degree specialized in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics discipline

- Scripting experience in Python, R, Spark, and SQL

- Strong desire and experience with data in various forms (data warehouses/SQL, unstructured data)

- Experience utilizing and developing within AWS services

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science or a related quantitative field) plus at least 5 years of experience performing data analytics, or, a Master’s Degree plus at least 3 years performing data analytics with an expectation that required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date.

- At least 3 years of experience working with at least one scripting language

- At least 3 years of experience utilizing a business intelligence visualization tool

- At least 3 years of experience in querying, analyzing and working with data languages and platforms

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Master’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics discipline

- At least 4 years of experience coding in Python, R, Spark, or SQL

- At least 4 years of experience working within process management and improvement methodologies – Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, etc.

- At least 2 years of experience utilizing and developing within AWS services

- At least 2 years of experience delivering Data Governance and Data Quality Management concepts and practices within the financial services industry

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are:

- McLean, VA: $131,300 - $149,800

- Richmond, VA: $119,400 - $136,200

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

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

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- R
- Spark
- SQL
- AWS
- data analysis
- data visualization
- business intelligence

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree in STEM
- Agile
- Lean
- Six Sigma
- Data Governance
- Data Quality Management

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