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# Senior Associate, Data Science

- **Company:** Capital One Financial Corporation
- **Location:** McLean, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $135,600.0 - $154,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Big Data, Microsoft Outlook, Data Transformation, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Open Source Technology, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Cloud Platform System, Apache Spark, Information Technology, Data Analytics
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/60047999-senior-associate-data-science

## About the Role

* Innovative. You continually research and evaluate emerging technologies. You stay current on published state-of-the-art methods, technologies, and applications and seek out opportunities to apply them.
 * 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.
 * 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 have experience with a wide array of methods.
 * 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 2 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, * Master's Degree in "STEM" field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics), or PhD in "STEM" field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics)
 * Experience working with AWS
 * At least 2 years' experience in Python, Scala, or R
 * At least 2 years' experience with machine learning
 * At least 2 years' experience with SQL

## Description

The Credit Risk Management, Loss Forecasting and Allowance team uses the latest technologies and innovative models and data to forecast and optimize future losses associated with Capital One's credit card portfolio. We partner with model development and software engineering teams to build predictive models and automate insight generation.

As a Data Scientist, you will focus on loss forecasting modernization and data transformation. The qualified candidate will support card loss forecasting: resilience, outlook, allowance and CCAR., * Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to identify and quantify risks associated with models

 * Leverage a broad stack of technologies - Python, Conda, AWS, Spark, and more - to reveal the insights hidden within data
 * Build statistical/machine learning models to challenge "champion models" that are deployed in production today
 * Contribute to the model governance of the next generation of machine learning models
 * Flex your interpersonal skills to present how model risks could impact the business to executives