Principal Associate, Data Scientist

Principal Associate, Data Scientist As a Data Scientist at the Retail and Direct Bank, you’ll be part of a high‑performing modeling and analytics team that is on a mission to define the next generation of banking. Role Description This role offers a unique opportunity to be part of a dynamic analytics and modeling team focused on developing behavior models for balance sheet portfolios. Responsibilities Develop and support econometric time‑series models for the balance sheet. Identify opportunities to apply quantitative methods to improve business performance. Demonstrate track record in behavior model development. Communicate models and methods clearly to management, model risk office, regulators, and other modelers. Develop and maintain high‑quality and transparent documentation. Ideal Candidate Customer first: love the process of analyzing and creating while prioritizing the right decisions for customers. Innovative: research and evaluate emerging technologies, stay current on state‑of‑the‑art methods, technologies, and applications, and seek opportunities to apply them. Technical: comfortable with open‑source languages and passionate about further development. Statistically‑minded: built models, validated and backtested them, and can interpret confusion matrices or ROC curves; experience with clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, time series, and deep learning. Basic Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) plus 5 years of experience performing data analytics. 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 3 years of experience performing data analytics. PhD in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field). Preferred Qualifications Master’s Degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 3 years of experience in data analytics, or PhD in a STEM field. At least 1 year of experience working with AWS. At least 3 years of experience in Python. At least 3 years of experience with machine learning. At least 3 years of experience with SQL. Compensation McLean, VA: $161,800 - $184,600 for Principal Associate, Data Science. Salary range may vary by location. This role is also eligible to earn performance‑based incentive compensation, including cash bonuses and/or long‑term incentives. Benefits Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well‑being. Immigration Sponsorship Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position. Equal Opportunity Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non‑discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. #J-18808-Ljbffr