As a Data Scientist at Capital One, you’ll be part of a high-performing team that’s embracing the latest in computing technologies to unlock opportunities that help everyday people save money and improve their financial lives.

You'll help our customers solve their financial services challenges by using groundbreaking techniques. You'll make valuable contributions from day one by continuously learning, engaging in diverse sets of experiences and building close-knit relationships across the company.

On any given day, you might:

• Evaluate open source and internally-developed modeling and analytics tools using real business data
• Integrate internal data with external data sources and APIs to discover and implement actionable insights
• Design and craft rich data visualizations to communicate stories to customers and company leadership

Are you ready to join a community of people like you - ones who embrace customer problems and use their passion and capabilities to make a difference every single day?

Basic Qualifications:

• Have obtained or will obtain a Master’s or higher between December 2018 and August 2019
• At least 6 months of experience or course work in open-source programming languages for data analysis
• At least 6 months of experience or course work in inferential statistics or machine learning

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or higher in a quantitative field of study
• Direct experience with either Python or R, plus one other general-purpose programming language such as Java or C/C++
• Experience or course work with relational databases
• Experience or course work with large-scale data analysis

We'd love to find someone who is…

• Intellectually curious. You ask why, you explore, and you are excited to imagine and create new ideas by inventing self-adaptive models or by tapping into unstructured data sources. You love mining data for insights into behaviors, intent, and sentiment.
• A builder. You are passionate about delivering better experiences and better products to our customers and have a deep sense of ownership for your craft.
• An experimental scientist. You love putting on your lab coat and trying new things, new combinations of tools, techniques and feature engineering approaches even if you sometimes fail.

At Capital One, we’re changing banking for good and helping people live their best lives. We’re building one of America’s leading information-based technology companies, using our digital fluency to transform everything about the customer experience.  We think and work like a tech company, always ready to dream, disrupt and deliver a better way—for our customers, the financial industry, and each other. Relentless innovation is our way of life.