Senior Director, Data Science - Capital One Software (Remote)

Senior Director, Data Science - Capital One Software (Remote)

Data is at the center of everything we do. As a startup, we disrupted the credit card industry by individually personalizing every credit card offer using statistical modeling and the relational database, cutting edge technology in 1988! Fast-forward a few years, and this little innovation and our passion for data has skyrocketed us to a Fortune 200 company and a leader in the world of data-driven decision-making.

As a Data Scientist at Capital One, you’ll be part of a team that’s leading the next wave of disruption at a whole new scale.

Team Description

Building on Capital One’s pioneering adoption of modern cloud and data capabilities, Capital One Software is helping accelerate the data management journey at scale for businesses operating in the cloud. If you think of the kind of challenges that companies face – things like data publishing, data consumption, data governance, and infrastructure management – we’ve built tools to address these various needs along the way. Capital One Software will continue to explore where we can bring our solutions to market to help other businesses address these same needs going forward. And you will do it all in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation. 

Role Description

In this role, you will:

• Apply your strategic and analytical skills to major business challenges. You’ll team with world-class professionals to develop and test strategies that ultimately impact the bottom line 

• Lead a growing team of data scientists, analysts, engineers.  You will partner with people within the Software business and across the enterprise and at external  platforms

• Leverage a broad stack of technologies to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data

• Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals

The Ideal Candidate is:

• Customer first. You love the process of analyzing and creating, but also share our passion to do the right thing. You know at the end of the day it’s about making the right decision for our customers.

• A leader. You challenge conventional thinking and work with stakeholders to identify and improve the status quo. You’re passionate about talent development for your own team and beyond.

• 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 one of the following with an expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date :

  • A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) plus 11 years of experience performing data analytics

  • A Master's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field)  or an MBA with a quantitative concentration plus 9 years of experience performing data analytics

  • A PHD in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) plus 6 years of experience performing data analytics

• At least 6 years of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysis

• At least 6 years of experience working with machine learning

• At least 6 years of experience utilizing relational databases

Preferred Qualifications: 

• PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 7 years of experience in data analytics

• At least 1 year of experience working with AWS

• At least 4 years of experience managing people

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed be