Senior Manager, Data Science - Business Card and Payment
- Location
- McLean, VA, United States
- Track
- Data Scientist
- Level
- Lead
- Salary
- $230K–$262K / yr
- Posted
- October 19, 2026
- Source
- Workday
Job description
Senior Manager, Data Science - Business Card and Payment
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.
Team Description
The Business Cards & Payments Credit Infrastructure team i s aimed at informing and powering the underwriting and marketing decisions behind our flagship Small Business card products. As a Data Science leader on this team, you will help the business make better decisions by conducting rigorous statistical analysis and building novel decision systems. You'll partner with a team of data scientists, business analysts, and software engineers on different phases of model development and you will do it all in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation.
Role Description
In this role, you will
- 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
The Ideal Candidate is
- 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.
- 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.
- Statistically-minded. You’ve built models, validated them, and back tested 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.
Basic
Qualifications
- 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 7 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 5 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 2 years of experience performing data analytics
- At least 2 years of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysis
- At least 2 years of experience working with machine learning
- At least 2 years of experience utilizing relational databases
Preferred
Qualifications
- PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Economics or Mathematics) plus 4 years of experience in data analytics
- At least 1 year of experience working with AWS
- At least 1 year of experience managing people
- At least 5 years’ experience in Python, Scala, or R for large scale data analysis
- At least 5 years’ experience with econometrics or causal inference
- At least 5 years’ experience with machine learning, specifically reinforcement learning
McLean, VA: $229,900 - $262,400 for Sr Mgr, Data Science