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# Senior Associate, Data Scientist - Recommendation & Personalization Systems

- **Company:** Capital One Financial Corporation
- **Location:** Fairfax County, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $135,600 - $154,800
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Big Data, Relational Databases, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Open Source Technology, SQL Databases, Cloud Platform System, Information Technology, Data Analytics
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-associate-data-scientist-recommendation-personalization-systems-mclean-va--2c8f2550-aca1-4e29-bdcb-e8cd48122afe

## About the Role

Data Science, Data Science, Startup, Credit Cards, Leading Edge Technology, Relational Databases (RDBMS), Statistical Modeling, Machine Learning, Time Management, Customer Experience, * 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.

 * 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.
 * 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 of experience in Python, Scala, or R
 * At least 2 years of experience with machine learning
 * At least 2 years of experience with SQL