Manager, Data Science, Customer Platforms

Key Skills

Apache Hadoop, C Programming, C++, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MapReduce, Python Programming, PyTorch, R Programming, Scala Programming, SQL, TensorFlow

Job Description

Digital ML is the data science and machine learning team inside Capital One’s Digital Products organization. We deliver real-time, personalized, intelligent customer experiences in Capital One’s suite of award-winning digital products, including our website, mobile app, emails, chatbot, and beyond. We partner closely with our product and engineering teams to build the data and modeling platforms crucial to delighting a combined 52 million customers each month and empowering them to manage their financial lives digitally.

As part of Digital ML, you will work on things like:

• The servicing optimization engine that anticipates customers’ needs in real time and helps them manage their accounts, purchases, payments, rewards, and more 
• The marketing optimization engine that selects the right offer for the right customer
• The experimentation engine that enables us to rigorously test new features, messaging and offers for our customers
• Customer behavioral analyses (using transaction, clickstream and other data) that identify trends, patterns and relationships related to product usage 

Role Description

In Digital ML, you will work at all phases of the data science lifecycle, including:

• Build machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation and validation, and partner with engineering teams to operationalize them in scalable and resilient production systems that serve 50+ million customers.
• Partner closely with a variety of business and product teams across Capital One to conduct the experiments that guide improvements to customer experiences and business outcomes in domains like marketing, servicing and fraud prevention.
• Write software (Python, Scala, e.g.) to collect, explore, visualize and analyze numerical and textual data (billions of customer transactions, clicks, payments, etc.) using tools like Spark and AWS.

The Ideal candidate will be:

• Curious and creative. You thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined problems. You love asking questions, and you love pushing hard to find the answers. You’re not afraid to share a new idea. You communicate clearly and effectively to share your findings with non-technical audiences.
• Technical: You have hands-on experience developing data science solutions from concept to production using open source tools and modern cloud computing platforms. You are not afraid of petabytes of data.
• Statistically-minded. You have 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 analysis and deep learning.
• Customer and product oriented. You share our passion for changing banking for good.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree plus 6 years of experience in data analytics, or Master’s Degree plus 4 years of experience in data analytics, or PhD plus 1 year of experience in data analytics
• At least 2 years’ experience in open source programming languages for large scale data analysis
• At least 2 years’ experience with machine learning
• At least 2 years’ experience with relational databases

Preferred Qualifications:

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

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