Capital One
Principal Data Analyst - Analytics & Transformation
$119K–$150K
McLean, VA +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Location
- McLean, VA
Richmond, VA - Experience
- At least 5 years of data analytics experience with a Bachelor’s Degree, or at least 3 years with a Master’s Degree; additional experience requirements are listed above.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field or a Master’s Degree.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
About the job
Build and maintain data solutions, analytics, dashboards, and data quality capabilities to support business decision-making.
What you'll do
- Mine varied and complex data sources and build tools and capabilities that enable self-service data use.
- Partner with business teams to develop dashboards and analyses that provide insights into business strategies.
- Support data quality, metadata, lineage, security, access governance, and monitoring.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field plus at least 5 years of data analytics experience, or a Master’s Degree plus at least 3 years of data analytics experience; required degree must be obtained by the scheduled start date.
- At least 3 years of experience with a scripting language.
- At least 3 years of experience using a business intelligence visualization tool.
- At least 3 years of experience querying, analyzing, and working with data languages and platforms.
Nice to have
- Master’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics discipline.
- At least 4 years coding in Python, R, Spark, or SQL; at least 4 years in process management and improvement methodologies; or at least 2 years in AWS services or financial-services data governance and quality management.
Pay
$131,300 - $149,800 USD base salary (McLean, VA); $119,400 - $136,200 USD base salary (Richmond, VA)
Tools
Python, R, Spark, SQL, AWS
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