Capital One
Manager, Data Scientist - Bureau Data Strategy
$197K–$246K
McLean, VA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Location
- McLean, VA
New York, NY - Experience
- Requirements vary by degree: 6 years with a bachelor’s degree, 4 years with a master’s degree or quantitative MBA, or 1 year with a PhD; plus the separately stated minimums of 1 year each in open-source programming for large-scale analysis, machine learning, and relational databases.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in a quantitative field; alternatively, an MBA with a quantitative concentration.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
About the job
Leads bureau data strategy and develops machine learning solutions that turn credit bureau data into insights for Capital One underwriting.
What you'll do
- Partner with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver data products.
- Build machine learning models from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation.
- Analyze large volumes of numeric and textual data and translate findings into business goals.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field plus 6 years of data analytics experience; or a quantitative master’s degree or quantitative MBA plus 4 years; or a quantitative PhD plus 1 year.
- At least 1 year leveraging open-source programming languages for large-scale data analysis.
- At least 1 year working with machine learning.
- At least 1 year utilizing relational databases.
Nice to have
- At least 4 years using Python, Scala, R, or SQL for large-scale data analysis; at least 4 years of machine learning experience.
- At least 2 years managing production repositories on GitHub; at least 1 year working with Spark or PySpark.
Pay
$197,300 - $225,100 USD base salary; $215,200 - $245,600 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark, Scala, R, SQL
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