Principal Associate Data Scientist, Alternative Data Strategy

Capital One Financial

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: McLean, VANew York, NY
Salary: $161,800–$184,600 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 7 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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

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TL;DR · Principal Associate Data Scientist, Alternative Data Strategy

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The Principal Associate, Data Scientist - Alternative Data Strategy joins the Alternative Data Strategy team to drive credit decisioning forward by integrating non-traditional datasets into US Card strategies. In this role, you will evaluate emerging vendors and data products, engineer high-impact features, and build scalable processing and monitoring systems. You will serve as a data domain expert, navigating risk governance for vendor models and building challenger models to enhance existing ones. You will utilize a broad technology stack including Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, and Spark to reveal insights within large volumes of numeric and textual data. Key responsibilities involve building machine learning models through all development phases, including training, evaluation, and validation, while collaborating cross-functionally to translate complex technical work into tangible business goals.

What does a Data Scientist earn in Virginia?

Median $162000 from 89 postings across 9 companies.

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Skills

Python AWS Spark H2O SQL Scala R Machine Learning Deep Learning Conda Time Series Sentiment Analysis Clustering Classification Statistical Modeling

What you'll do

Evaluate emerging vendors and data products to integrate non-traditional datasets into credit strategies.
Engineer high-impact features and build scalable processing and monitoring systems.
Build machine learning models through all phases of development, including design, training, and validation.
Serve as the dedicated data domain expert to guide users on dataset applications.
Navigate risk governance for vendor models and build challenger models using new data.
Use Python, AWS, H2O, and Spark to extract insights from large volumes of numeric and textual data.
Translate complex technical work into tangible business goals for cross-functional stakeholders.

What we're looking for

Must have a Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field plus 5 years of data analytics experience.
Must have a Master's degree in a quantitative field or an MBA with a quantitative concentration plus 3 years of data analytics experience.
Must have a PhD in a quantitative field.
Must have hands-on experience developing data science solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
Must have experience with clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, time series, and deep learning.
Must have experience building, validating, and backtesting machine learning models.
Must have experience with Python, Scala, or R (preferred).
Must have experience with SQL (preferred).

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