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Capital One

Senior Manager, Data Scientist - US Card (Emerging Fraud)

Capital One, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290

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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, 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 The Emerging Fraud team focuses on identifying and neutralizing novel fraud threats. This role will lead the strategy for key models (like our 'Iceberg' project and transaction fraud models) and drive innovation in areas like IP Address intelligence and Business Cards and Payments fraud detection. You will be responsible for guiding the team in developing sophisticated new feature inputs that enhance the protective power of our core Card Fraud models.

Role Description

Partner with a cross‑functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love

Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data

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

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.

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.

Creative. 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.

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.

Statistically‑minded. You’ve built models, validated them, and backtested them. You know how to interpret a confusion matrix or a ROC curve. You have experience with clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, time series, and deep learning.

A data guru. "Big data" doesn’t faze you. You have the skills to retrieve, combine, and analyze data from a variety of sources and structures. You know understanding the data is often the key to great data science.

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 7 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 5 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 2 years of experience performing data analytics

At least 2 years of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysis

At least 2 years of experience working with machine learning

At least 2 years of experience utilizing relational databases

Preferred Qualifications

PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 4 years of experience in data analytics

At least 1 year of experience working with AWS

At least 1 year of experience managing people

At least 5 years’ experience in Python, Scala, or R for large scale data analysis

At least 5 years’ experience with machine learning

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Compensation

Chicago, IL: $204,900 - $233,800 for Sr Mgr, Data Science

McLean, VA: $225,400 - $257,200 for Sr Mgr, Data Science

New York, NY: $245,900 - $280,600 for Sr Mgr, Data Science

Richmond, VA: $204,900 - $233,800 for Sr Mgr, Data Science

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well‑being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website.

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non‑discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. 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.

For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Careers@capitalone.com.

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