Capital One Principal Associate Data Scientist 

United States, Virginia, Arlington 

174083494

Locations: VA - McLean, United States of America, McLean, Virginia Principal Associate Data Scientist

In this role, you will:

• Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to identify and quantify risks associated with models

• Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, Conda, AWS, Spark, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data

• Build machine learning models to challenge “champion models” that are deployed in production today

• Flex your interpersonal skills to present how model risks could impact the business to executives

The Ideal Candidate is:

• Innovative. You continually research and evaluate emerging technologies. You stay current on published state-of-the-art methods, technologies, and applications and seek out opportunities to apply them.

• Creative. You thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined problems. You love asking questions and pushing hard to find answers. You’re not afraid to share a new idea.

• Technical. You’re comfortable with open-source languages and are passionate about developing further. You have hands-on experience developing data science solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.

• Statistically-minded. You’ve built models, validated them, and backtested them. You know how to interpret a confusion matrix or a ROC curve. You have experience with clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, time series, and deep learning.

• A data guru. “Big data” doesn’t faze you. You have the skills to retrieve, combine, and analyze data from a variety of sources and structures. You know understanding the data is often the key to great data science.

Basic Qualifications:

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree plus 4 years of experience in data analytics, or currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Master’s Degree plus 2 years of experience in data analytics, or currently has, or is in the process of obtaining PhD plus 1 year of experience in data analytics, with an expectation that required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date

• At least 2 years’ experience with machine learning

• At least 2 years’ experience with relational databases

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 3 years of experience in data analytics

• At least 1 year of experience working with AWS

• At least 1 year of experience working with Generative AI

• At least 3 years’ experience in Python, Scala, or R for large scale data analysis

• At least 3 years’ experience with machine learning

• At least 3 years’ experience with SQL

• At least 3 years’ experience building or validating models to detect financial crimes (Fraud Detection, Anti-Money Laundering)

. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

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