✦ Luna Orbit — Data & Analytics

Principal Data Analyst

at Capital One Financial

📍 Chicago, IL Unknown 💰 $119K – $136K USD / year Posted April 01, 2026
Salary $119K – $136K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience lead
Exp. Years Bachelor's Degree + 5+ years or Master's + 3+ years
Education Bachelor's Degree in quantitative field; Master's Degree preferred
Category Data & Analytics

Lead data analytics initiatives at Capital One to design and deliver data solutions and dashboards for business insights. Partner with business units, ensure data quality, and support self-service analytics with governance and lineage.

  • Innovate and maintain data solutions; partner with business to design metrics/dashboards; drive analysis for business strategies; enforce data quality governance (metadata, lineage, definitions); collaborate with Tech on security and access governance

Stack includes Python, R, Spark, SQL with cloud data capabilities on AWS; experience with data warehouses and BI dashboards; data governance and data quality practices are essential.

The ideal candidate is a mid-to-senior data analyst with strong AWS and data governance experience, proficient in Python, R, Spark, and SQL, and capable of delivering dashboards and self-service analytics to business partners.

Bachelor's Degree in quantitative field (StatisticsEconomicsOperations ResearchAnalyticsMathematicsComputer Science or a related quantitative field) plus at least 5 years of experience performing data analyticsAt least 3 years of experience working with at least one scripting languageAt least 3 years of experience utilizing a business intelligence visualization toolAt least 3 years of experience in queryinganalyzing and working with data languages and platformsExperience utilizing and developing within AWS servicesStrong desire and experience with data in various forms (data warehouses/SQLunstructured data)
Master's Degree in a ScienceTechnologyEngineeringMathematics disciplineAt least 4 years of experience coding in PythonRSparkor SQLAt least 4 years of experience working within process management and improvement methodologies - AgileLeanSix Sigmaetc.At least 2 years of experience utilizing and developing within AWS servicesAt least 2 years of experience delivering Data Governance and Data Quality Management concepts and practices within the financial services industry
Amazon Web ServicesAWSData WarehousingBusiness Intelligence Visualization ToolOpen Source technologies
PythonRSparkSQLAWSAmazon Web ServicesData WarehousingData GovernanceData QualityMetadataLineageDashboardsBusiness IntelligenceSelf-Service Analytics
PythonRSparkSQLAmazon Web ServicesAWSData WarehousingData GovernanceData Quality ManagementMetadataLineage
communicationcollaborationanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingteamwork
Industry Banking
Job Function Deliver data analytics solutions and dashboards to enable data-driven decision-making in a banking context.
Role Subtype Data Analyst
Tech Domains Python, R, Spark, SQL, Amazon Web Services, Data Warehousing, Data Governance, Data Quality Management
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Bachelor's degree in quantitative field required, 5+ years data analytics experience OR 3+ years with Master's, 3+ years scripting language experience, Experience with AWS required

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