Manager, Data Scientist - Emerging Payments & Airkey

Capital One • New York, NY

28d

About The Position

Manager, Data Scientist - Emerging Payments & Airkey 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 Payments organization develops and maintains innovative payment experiences for Capital One customers, including digital wallets, virtual card numbers, merchant checkout experiences, transaction intelligence, and new commercialization opportunities. Our data science team builds machine learning models that help our customers securely facilitate, control, and understand their spend. These models power customer-facing features and experiences that reach tens of millions of customers. We cleanse, enrich, and use large scale card and debit data from Capital One and, more recently, Discover, as well as national metadata datasets around merchants, places, and more. Leveraging the latest approaches and tools, we primarily work with models such as XGBoost, transformers, embeddings, and LLMs, using SQL, Python (and some Scala), tensorflow and pytorch, with Databricks, Snowflake, and other internal platforms and tools. On any given day you’ll be: Creating machine learning models from development through testing and validation to our 30+ million customers in production Designing rich data visualizations to communicate complex ideas to customers or company leaders Investigating the impact of new technologies on the future of mobile banking and the financial world of tomorrow In this role, you will: Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product that customers love Leverage a broad stack of technologies - SQL, Python, Conda, AWS, 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

Requirements

• 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 6 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 4 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 1 year of experience performing data analytics
• At least 1 year of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysis
• At least 1 year of experience working with machine learning
• At least 1 year of experience utilizing relational databases

Nice To Haves

• PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 3 years of experience in data science. Bonus points for experience with transformers
• At least 4 years of experience in Python, Scala for large scale data analysis
• At least 4 years of experience with machine learning
• At least 4 years of experience with SQL
• At least 1 year of experience working with AWS

Responsibilities

• Creating machine learning models from development through testing and validation to our 30+ million customers in production
• Designing rich data visualizations to communicate complex ideas to customers or company leaders
• Investigating the impact of new technologies on the future of mobile banking and the financial world of tomorrow
• Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product that customers love
• Leverage a broad stack of technologies - SQL, Python, Conda, AWS, 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees