Principal Associate Data Scientist

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
Plano, TXMcLean, VA
Salary
$161,800–$184,600 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
60 days ago
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This role pays less than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $160,875–$214,525 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $173k versus about $188k 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 2107 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 1107 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Principal Associate Data Scientist

JOB TITLE: Principal Associate, Data Scientist -Financial Services As a Principal Associate, Data Scientist -Financial Services, you will join a team focused on data-driven decision-making to unlock opportunities for customers. You will partner with cross-functional teams of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver products by revealing insights within huge volumes of numeric and textual data. Your daily responsibilities include building machine learning models through all phases of development, including design, training, evaluation, validation, and implementation. You will utilize a broad technology stack including Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark, Scala, R, and SQL. The role requires expertise in clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, time series, and deep learning to solve complex problems involving billions of customer records within the financial services domain.

What does a Data Scientist earn in Virginia?

Median $162000 from 89 postings across 9 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build machine learning models through all phases of development including design, training, evaluation, validation, and implementation.
  • Leverage a broad technology stack including Python, AWS, H2O, and Spark to extract insights from large datasets.
  • Analyze and interpret huge volumes of numeric and textual data to reveal hidden business insights.
  • Translate complex technical work into tangible business goals for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Retrieve, combine, and analyze data from a variety of different sources and structures.
  • Research and evaluate emerging technologies and state-of-the-art methods for application in data science.
  • Identify and improve the status quo by challenging conventional thinking with 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 models while interpreting confusion matrices or ROC curves.
  • Must have experience retrieving, combining, and analyzing data from a variety of sources and structures.
  • Preferred: Master's or PhD in a STEM field plus 3 years of data analytics experience.
  • Preferred: At least 1 year of experience working with AWS.
  • Preferred: At least 3 years of experience in Python, Scala, or R.
  • Preferred: At least 3 years of experience with machine learning.
  • Preferred: At least 3 years of experience with SQL.

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