Director, Data Scientist

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
McLean, VANew York, NY
Salary
$269,100–$307,200 / yr
Posted
102 days ago
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Confirmed live 3 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $288k
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This role pays more than 95% of similar roles. Most pay $140,000–$228,987 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $288k versus about $184k for comparable roles.

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About Capital One Financial

Capital One Financial is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products, known for its data-driven approach to consumer and commercial finance. Industry: Financial Services & Banking

Capital One Financial currently has 998 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 992 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Director, Data Scientist

As Director, Data Scientist, you will join the Generative AI Systems team within Card Data Science to lead a specialized group of specialists in natural language processing, speech, and computer vision. You will oversee the development of state-of-the-art generative AI solutions for dialogue, text summarization, reading comprehension, speech recognition, image processing, and time-series sequencing modeling. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will build machine learning models through all phases of development to power internal efficiency tools and customer-facing applications. The role requires expertise in Python, Kubernetes, AWS, H2O, Spark, and relational databases to analyze massive volumes of numeric and textual data. You will translate complex technical work into tangible business goals while managing the research and implementation of emerging technologies to solve problems within the financial services domain.

What you'll do

  • Lead a team of specialists in NLP, speech, and computer vision to develop generative AI solutions.
  • Build machine learning models through all phases including design, training, evaluation, validation, and implementation.
  • Develop software for internal business efficiency and customer-facing applications using Python, Kubernetes, AWS, H2O, and Spark.
  • Analyze large volumes of numeric and textual data to uncover insights for product development.
  • Translate complex technical work into tangible business goals for stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
  • Contribute original research to major NLP and AI/ML conferences.
  • Manage the development of solutions for dialogue, text summarization, speech recognition, and image processing.

What we're looking for

  • A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field plus 9 years of experience performing data analytics.
  • A Master's degree in a quantitative field or an MBA with a quantitative concentration plus 7 years of experience performing data analytics.
  • A PhD in a quantitative field plus 4 years of experience performing data analytics.
  • At least 4 years of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysis.
  • At least 4 years of experience working with machine learning.
  • At least 4 years of experience utilizing relational databases.
  • At least 1 year of experience working with AWS.
  • At least 3 years of experience managing people.

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