Principal Associate Data Scientist
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Job Summary
About Capital One Canada.
For 30 years weve been on a mission to change banking for good and build relationships by making credit accessible simple intuitive and rewarding. We want to help Canadians succeed with credit because we believe in people in our customers in our associates and in talent like you!
About the Team
At Capital One data is at the center of everything we do. When we launched as a startup we disrupted the credit card industry by individually personalizing every credit card offer using statistical modeling and the relational database cutting edge technology in 1988! Fast-forward a few years and this little innovation and our passion for data has skyrocketed us to a Fortune 100 company and a leader in the world of data-driven decision-making.
About the Role
As a modeling Data Scientist at Capital One youll be part of a team thats leading the next wave of disruption at a whole new scale using the latest in distributed computing technologies and operating across billions and billions of customer transactions to build cutting edge models and unlock the big opportunities that help everyday people save money time and agony in their financial lives.
Your Responsibilities:
On any given day you could be:
Writing software to extract clean and investigate large messy data sets of numerical and textual data
Building deploying and maintaining machine learning models (Gradient Boosting Machines Neural Networks etc.) from development validation through to deployment in production
Developing and optimization model development pipelines that enable rapid experimentation and optimization
Designing and analyzing experiments to optimize business strategies
Investigating the impact of new technologies data sources and methodologies in order to remain on the cutting edge of data science.
The Ideal Candidate will be:
Curious: You ask why you explore youre not afraid to share your disruptive ideas. You know Python and are constantly exploring new open source tools and hitting up AI agents on a regular basis.
A Wrangler: You know how to programmatically extract data from various databases and APIs bring it through a transformation or two and leverage it to improve your models accuracy.
Creative: Big undefined problems and petabytes of data dont frighten you. Youre used to working with abstract data and you love discovering new narratives in unmined territories.
Proactive: You want to share your knowledge with your peers and contribute back to inner/open source projects which you might consume.
An Expert: You have superpowers you cant wait to share. You have expertise in key aspects of model development model deployment or inference such that you are the go-to person in those areas.
An Emerging Leader: You feel comfortable running point on big complex projects. You know how to motivate others and bring them along your journey. You can paint a compelling picture of your recommendations and manage the message toward both technical and non-technical audiences.
Basic Qualifications:
At least 3 years of experience in open source programming languages for modeling (Python or R)
At least 3 years of experience with version control system like GitHub
At least 3 years of experience with machine learning or predictive modeling (H2O XGBoost TensorFlow etc...)
At least 3 years of experience with SQL
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree in a quantitative field or Masters Degree or PhD
Experience working with AWS (EC2 S3 Lambda RDS etc.)
Experience working with advanced Git Workflows (Pull Requests Code Reviews Issues and Branching)
Experience writing unit tests and integrating with CICD tools (Jenkins CircleCI etc.)
Experience with experimental design
AI agent power user
At least 5 years experience in Python or R
At least 5 years experience with machine learning / predictive modeling (H2O XGBoost TensorFlow etc.)
At least 5 years experience with SQL
Experience with financial data
Working at Capital One.
Enjoy a hybrid work environment with 3 days in the office. Build a comfortable workspace with our one-time Work From Home allowance and enjoy our head office located conveniently across the street from Union Station.
Live wellphysically financially and emotionally. Receive support for you and those who are most important to you with full coverage for spouses domestic partners and dependents. With up to $3000 in mental health coverage and up to $5000 in tuition subsidies per yearand much moreyoull discover that Capital One is committed to helping you live your best life.
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