Director, Data Science

## Director, Data ScienceApply: Toronto, ON: Full time: Posted Today: R1003071161 Bay Street (93021), Canada, Toronto,Toronto, Ontario,Director, Data ScienceAbout Capital One CanadaFor 30 years, we’ve been on a mission to change banking for good. We challenge the traditional bank stereotype, fostering a culture where innovation thrives and bold ideas are celebrated. We’re driven by what’s possible, leveraging the power of data and technology to empower innovative solutions, inspire one another to dream boldly, and take transformative ownership of decisions and outcomes that directly impact millions of Canadians. Every challenge is an opportunity to lead from the front, working together toward a shared vision that extends far beyond banking. We balance high-performance with investment in your long-term success, ensuring you have the support you need to do your best work. Here, you’ll take full accountability for your path, upskilling through hands-on experience and mentorship, to turn your curiosity into a career built on your own terms. Are you ready to redefine what’s next? About the TeamData 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. We're building a portfolio of agentic AI products to transform Capital One's engineering organizations and lines of business – autonomous coding agents, context engineering, and agentic model-development lifecycle to name a few. We're creating a new science team to help define the long-term strategy, analyze & optimize impact throughout the ecosystem, and drive business value at enterprise scale. As a scientist on the team, you'd design AI/ML models and help build the solutions behind these products. You'd also own the science that guides them: designing experiments (A/B tests), modeling telemetry, and turning the results into AI strategy and guidance for C-suite leadership.

About the Role
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 AI 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. In this role, you will:
* Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, AI & ML engineers, and product managers to deliver enterprise products 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:
* Customer first. You love the process of analyzing and creating, but also share our passion to do the right thing. You know at the end of the day it’s about making the right decision for our customers.
* 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.
* Statistically-minded. You’ve built models, validated them, and backtested 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.
* 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. 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 fi