Senior Manager, Data Science - Global Payment Network
- Location
- Riverwoods, IL
- Track
- Data Scientist
- Level
- Lead
- Salary
- $230K–$262K / yr
- Posted
- October 5, 2026
- Source
- Workday
Job description
Senior Manager, Data Science - Global Payment Network
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 Data Solutions and Model team builds the machine learning and AI agents that help our customers in the Global Payment Network. We create models and AI tools to support fraud/risk, merchant acceptance, merchant intelligence and monitoring.
Role Description
In this role, you will
- Lead a group of data scientists, business analysts and data analysts to develop machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
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 11 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 9 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 6 years of experience performing data analytics
- At least 6 years of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysis
- At least 6 years of experience working with machine learning
- At least 6 years of experience utilizing relational databases
Preferred
Qualifications
- PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 7 years of experience in data analytics
- At least 4 years of experience managing people
- At least 6 years of experience in Python, Scala, or R for large scale data analysis
- At least 6 years of experience with machine learning
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