Senior Associate – Data Science

Senior Associate – Data Science

At Capital One, we think big and do bigger things. We were the first company to develop and offer mass customization and personalization of credit card, auto loans and other financial services products, and we have been innovating relentlessly ever since.

Today, we are a progressive financial services powerhouse spanning Credit Cards, Auto Loans, Savings, and Commercial Banking and at the same time a high-tech company, a scientific laboratory, and a well-recognized brand all in one.  We are a passionate and entrepreneurial team with heart – a team that embraces bold ideas, fosters collaboration, and delivers world-class products and services impacting over 65 million customer accounts.

Still founder-led by Chairman and CEO Richard Fairbank, we dare to dream, disrupt and deliver a better way for our customers, the financial industry and for each other. Our goal is simple – bring ingenuity, simplicity and humanity to an industry ripe for change.

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, using the latest in computing and machine learning technologies and operating across billions of customer records to unlock the big opportunities that help everyday people save money, time and agony in their financial lives.

Team Description

At DataLabs, Capital One India, we solve fundamental business problems at scale using advanced analytics, data science and machine learning. We specialize in deriving valuable insights about various aspects of the business – including product and process design, consumer behavior, regulatory and credit risk, and much more – from large volumes of data to build cutting edge patentable products at an industrial scale.

In DataLabs Model Risk Management team, we defend the company against model failures and find new ways of making better decisions with models. We use our statistics, software engineering, and business expertise to drive the best outcomes in both Risk Management and the Enterprise. We also understand that we can’t prepare for tomorrow by focusing on today, so we invest in the future: investing in new skills, building better tools, and maintaining a network of trusted partners. We learn from past mistakes and develop increasingly powerful techniques to avoid their repetition.

Role Description

 In this role you will:

·        Partner cross-functionally with data scientists, quantitative analysts, business analysts, software engineers, and project managers to manage the risk and uncertainty inherent in statistical and machine learning models in order to lead Capital One to the best decisions, not just avoid the worst ones.

·        Build and validate statistical and machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation and implementation

·        Develop new ways of identifying weak spots in model predictions earlier and with more confidence than the best available methods

·        Assess, challenge, and at times defend state-of-the-art decision-making systems to internal and regulatory partners

·        Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, R, Conda, AWS, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of data

·        Build upon your existing machine learning and statistical toolset – both by learning new technologies and by building custom software tools for data exploration, model performance evaluation, and more

·        Communicate technical subject matter clearly and concisely to individuals from various backgrounds both verbally and through written communication; prepare presentations of complex technical concepts and research results to non-specialist audiences and senior management

·        Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals, and challenge model developers to advance their modeling, data, and analytic capabilities

The ideal candidate is:

·        Inquisitive.  You thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined problems. You love asking questions and pushing hard to find answers. You’re not afraid to share a new idea.

·        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.

·        Statistically-minded. You’ve built models, validated them, and back tested them. You know how to interpret a confusion matrix or a ROC curve. You have experience with clustering, classification, time series, and deep learning.

·        Innovative. You continually research and evaluate emerging technologies. You stay current on published state-of-the-art methods, technologies, and applications and seek out opportunities to apply them.

Basic Qualifications:

·        Degree in statistics, math, engineering, economics, econometrics, financial engineering, finance, or operations research with a quantitative emphasis preferred

·        2+ years relevant work experience 

·        Experience in Python or R

Preferred Skills:

·        Proficiency in key econometric and statistical techniques (such as predictive modeling, logistic regression, panel data models, decision trees, machine learning methods)

·        2+ years of experience model development or validation

·        2+ years of experience in R or Python for large scale data analysis

·        2+ years of experience with relational databases and SQL

·        Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy

·        Excellent written and verbal communication skills

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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