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Senior Associate, Data Science

Capital One McLean, VA senior full-time

Salary

$135,600 - $154,800 per year

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Description

Data is at the center of everything we do at Capital One. As a startup, we disrupted the credit card industry by individually personalizing every credit card offer using statistical modeling and relational databases. Now, as a Fortune 200 company, we're leading the next wave of disruption using the latest computing and machine learning technologies.

As a Senior Associate, Data Science, you'll join the Credit Risk Management, Loss Forecasting and Allowance team, focusing on loss forecasting modernization and data transformation. You'll partner with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to identify and quantify risks associated with models, leveraging technologies like Python, Conda, AWS, and Spark.

Key responsibilities:

  • Partner with cross-functional teams to identify and quantify model risks
  • Leverage a broad stack of technologies to reveal insights hidden within data
  • Build statistical/machine learning models to challenge champion models
  • Contribute to model governance of next-generation machine learning models
  • Present model risks to executives

The ideal candidate is innovative, creative, technical, statistically-minded, and a data guru. They'll have experience with open-source languages, cloud computing platforms, and a wide array of statistical methods.

Benefits:

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

Salary ranges:

  • McLean, VA: $135,600 - $154,800
  • Richmond, VA: $123,300 - $140,700

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree in STEM field
  • PhD in STEM field
  • Experience working with AWS
  • Scala
  • R
  • SQL

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