Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Valuations Engineer

About this role
Our Analytic Underwriting ensures that we are able to make the right decision for each potential customer looking to access credit.

We use tools, coding expertise and best engineering practices, to develop functionality to  determine which customers to lend to and how much, working in close collaboration with our business partners.

This role will primarily focus on enhancing our model and data infrastructure to enable best in class underwriting across the business; searching for opportunities to drive efficiencies and enable greater insight.

What you’ll do

• Provide infrastructure and tooling support to Acquisition and Customer valuations teams.

• Engage with and understand the needs/requirements of business partners.

• Bring pragmatism to proposed solutions and identify ongoing performance improvements.

• Apply solid software engineering skills, including the ability to develop maintainable code.

• Partner with stakeholders on recommendations, trading off priorities to ensure there is a balance between high quality delivery, technical cost and risk

• Act as the subject matter expert in the required software and data governance standards for the tools being built & managed, ensuring these are appropriately followed and documented

What we’re looking for

• You have a background in writing code that works with analytic datasets.  Ideally you have experience of Python and associated common data processing packages. You will have used these to process data from databases or other sources, for example, parquet data stored in a data lake

• You’re passionate about the tools you use to make development as efficient as possible - for example, you may have experience with git, unit testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines or some data-focused cloud storage services (e.g. AWS S3)

• You love innovation, continually researching and evaluating emerging technologies. You stay current on published state-of-the-art methods, technologies and applications and seek out opportunities to apply them

• 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

We are committed to creating a level playing field and seek to create teams that are representative of our customers and the communities we serve.  We’d love to hear from you if you identify with a typically under-represented group in our industry and are particularly keen to hear from women, the LGBTQ+ community and ethnic minority candidates.

Where and how you'll work
This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office.  

We have a hybrid working model, so you’ll be based in our office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and can work from home on Monday and Friday.

Many of our associates have flexible working arrangements, and we're open to talking about an arrangement that works for you.

What’s in it for you

• Bring us all this - and you’ll be well rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation

• We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers)

• Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave

• Open-plan workspaces and accessible facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head-office has a fully-serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms

What you should know about how we recruit
We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say. That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us. We have a whole host of internal networks and support groups you could be involved in, to name a few:

• REACH – Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and allies

• OutFront – to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associates

• Mind Your Mind – signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all

• Women in Tech – promoting an inclusive environment in tech

• EmpowHER - network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders, particularly for female talent in our industry

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact ukrecruitment@capitalone.com  All information will be kept confidential and will only be used for the purpose of applying a reasonable adjustment.

Who We Are

At Capital One, we're building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.