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# Manager, Data Scientist - Recommendation & Personalization Systems

- **Company:** Capital One Financial Corporation
- **Location:** Richmond, VA, United States
- **Salary:** $197,300.0 - $225,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Big Data, Relational Databases, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Open Source Technology, Standard Sql, Sentiment Analysis, Cloud Platform System, Deep Learning, Information Technology, Data Analytics
- **Published:** October 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/EC8D57F2409E477D81753E45D5D31D48/job/

## About the Role

* A leader. You challenge conventional thinking and work with stakeholders to identify and improve the status quo. You're passionate about talent development for your own team and beyond.
 * Technical. You're comfortable with open-source languages and are passionate about developing further. You have hands-on experience developing data science solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
 * Statistically-minded. You've 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, and deep learning.
 * A data guru. "Big data" doesn't faze you. You have the skills to retrieve, combine, and analyze data from a variety of sources and structures. You know understanding the data is often the key to great data science., * 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, * PhD in "STEM" field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 3 years of experience in data analytics
 * At least 4 years of experience in Python, Scala, or R 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

## Description

* Creative. You thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined problems. You love asking questions and pushing hard to find answers. You're not afraid to share a new idea.


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