Manager, Data Scientist - Recommendation & Personalization Systems

Capital One
McLean, VA, USA / New York, NY, USA / San Jose, CA, USA2026-04-23Full time

About the job

Manager, Data Scientist - Recommendation & Personalization Systems

Data is at the center of everything we do. 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 200 company and a leader in the world of data-driven decision-making.

As a Data Scientist at Capital One, you’ll be part of a team that’s leading the next wave of disruption at a whole new scale, using the latest in computing and machine learning technologies and operating across billions of customer records to unlock the big opportunities that help everyday people save money, time and agony in their financial lives.

Responsibilities

Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love

Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data

Build machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation

Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals

Qualifications

Minimum

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

Preferred

PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 3 years of experience in data analytics

3+ years of hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining high-scale, production-grade ML systems using MLOps practices, including AWS, Kubeflow, and CI/CD pipelines

Deep expertise (4+ years) in developing and optimizing state-of-the-art Deep Learning models, specifically Transformer-based architectures, using PyTorch and distributed training with multi-GPU optimization

Extensive experience (4+ years) with high-performance, distributed data processing for petabyte-scale feature engineering using frameworks like DASK and PySpark