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Senior Manager, Data Science - Financial Services

at Capital One Financial

📍 Plano, TX Onsite 💰 $209K – $238K USD / year Posted April 05, 2026
Salary $209K – $238K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience senior
Exp. Years 2+ years
Education Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field; Master’s Degree or MBA with quantitative concentration; PhD in a quantitative field (as alternatives)
Category AI & Machine Learning

Senior Manager, Data Science - Financial Services at Capital One Auto Finance; leads a cross-functional team to deliver ML/GenAI-enabled data products at scale across billions of records, leveraging Python, AWS, and open-source tools.

  • Partner with cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love
  • Build Generative AI models and products through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, implementation, monitoring and risk governance
  • Translate complexity of work into tangible business goals
  • Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals
  • Lead and develop people

Technical scope includes ML/GenAI model development, LLM prompting/fine-tuning, data pipelines on cloud platforms (AWS), relational databases, and large-scale data analytics using Python, Scala, or R.

The ideal candidate is a senior data science leader with 5+ years of machine learning experience, strong Python and AWS expertise, hands-on LLM/GenAI experience, and proven people leadership in a financial services context.

Bachelor's Degree in quantitative field + 7 years analytics ORMaster's Degree in quantitative field or MBA with quantitative concentration + 5 years analytics ORPhD in quantitative field + 2 years analyticsAt least 2 years of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysisAt least 2 years of experience working with machine learningAt least 2 years of experience utilizing relational databases
PhD in STEM field + 4 years analyticsAt least 2 years of AWSAt least 2 years managing peopleAt least 2 years' experience in LLM training and evaluationAt least 2 years' experience in GenAI application developmentAt least 5 years' experience in Python for large scale data analysisAt least 3 years' experience in PythonScalaor R for large scale data analysisAt least 3 years' experience with machine learning
PythonAWSLLM prompting/fine-tuninglarge-scale data analysisrelational databasesmachine learningopen-source programming languagescloud computing platformsGenAI application developmentLLM training and evaluationScalaRSQL
PythonAWSLLM prompting/fine-tuningLarge-scale data analysisRelational databasesMachine learningOpen-source programming languagescloud computing platformsGenAI application developmentLLM training and evaluationScalaRSQL
customer focusinnovationleadershipcommunicationstakeholder managementtalent developmentstrategic thinkingproblem solvingteam collaboration
Industry Fintech
Job Function Lead strategy and execution of AI/ML/data science products for Capital One Auto Finance.
Role Subtype Data Scientist
Tech Domains Amazon Web Services, Python, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Scala, R
Visa Sponsorship Yes
Senior ManagerData Science - Financial ServicesData ScientistPythonAWSLLM prompting/fine-tuningLarge-scale data analysisrelational databasesmachine learningGenAILLM training and evaluationGenAI application developmentdata analyticsopen-source programming languagescloud computing platformsScalaRSQLPlanoTX

Less than 2 years of ML experience, No experience with relational databases, No Python or AWS experience, No exposure to LLM/GenAI

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