Capital One Principal Associate Data Scientist - US Card 

United States, Illinois, Chicago 

54167725

77 West Wacker Dr (35012), United States of America, Chicago, Illinois Principal Associate, Data Scientist - US Card

In this role, you will:

• Operate at the cutting edge of machine learning in Capital One's US Card business, designing the tools and processes that enable rapid delivery of robust statistical models.

• Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love

• Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data

• Build machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation

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.

Basic Qualifications:

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree plus 5 years of experience in data analytics, or currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Master’s Degree plus 3 years in data analytics, or currently has, or is in the process of obtaining PhD, with an expectation that required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date

• At least 1 year of experience in open source programming languages for large scale data analysis

• At least 1 year of experience with machine learning

• At least 1 year of experience with relational databases

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Experience with open source data and machine learning packages such as pandas, polars, dask, SQLAlchemy, xgboost, Optuna, DuckDB, PyArrow

• Experience with tools and platforms for building quality python code such as CICD, black/ruff, mypy, pydantic, conda, uv, poetry, cookiecutter

• Experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake or Delta Lake

Illinois (Hybrid On-site):

$153,900 - $175,700 for Princ Associate, Data Science

New York City (Hybrid On-site):

$165,100 - $188,500 for Princ Associate, Data Science

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

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

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