PenFed Credit Union

Job Overview

PenFed is hiring a (Hybrid) Sr Data Scientist at our Tysons, Virginia location. The primary purpose of this job is to develop, maintain and enhance Auto, Personal Loan and Credit Card NPV calculator used to support credit decisioning, pricing, engagement and other business strategies. In addition, this role supports the first line's independent challenge of official loss forecast for consumer lending portfolios.

Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and the position will perform other duties as assigned.

• Lead interaction with and advising Management of regarding credit risk issues; formulates product strategy recommendations and evaluates the risk in the overall loan portfolio.
• Conduct autonomous end-to-end more complex statistical model creation, including but not limited to identifying objectives, compiling data, sampling/prepping data, feature selection, model comparison/selection, deployment, and monitoring.
• Ensures adequate internal control processes around model development, implementation and validation are established.
• Develop, monitor, and maintain risk models using advanced machine learning and statistical method.
• Research and recommend new approaches/algorithms to identify relationships among complex data and implements model changes to improve model performance.
• Understand the trends within consumer and commercial loans portfolio, their impact on model implementation design and performance, and develop timely approach to address changes.
• Develop necessary analytics and processes during model implementation and forecasting process to provide production support and resolution.
• Establish consistent and robust model implementation processes across models with effective review and controls.
• Communicate design and results of model's development and implementation to a variety of audiences, including senior management, bank supervisors, internal validation, Internal Audit and line of business credit and finance end users.
• Apply intermediate to advanced knowledge of financial processes and procedures, and routine modeling theories and techniques to create effective modeling solutions for a single or multiple business functions.Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.
• Maintain documentation for key processes and model components across the team with focus on standardization of processes.
• Engage model development teams, model production, and forecasting/model production team/users to develop consistent model implementation and process capabilities.
• Participate in regular interactions with various stakeholders to enhance model implementation processes and translate requirements into integrated forecasting process/tools for effective consumption.

Qualifications

Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.

• Master's Degree in quantitative discipline is required. PHD is highly preferred.
• Minimum of three (3) years of related work experience in building statistical models and advanced data analysis. Minimum of one (1) years of experience for PhD degree holders.
• Applied experience with Logistic Regression, Linear Regression, Machine Leaning, and Survival Analysis required.
• Advanced programming skills to include knowledge of statistical programs (e.g. SQL, Python, and R) required.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and implement rapid changes in project direction.
• Demonstrate strong data analysis skills, ability to understand underlying data and complex loss/balance forecasting models, various product features, possess organizational and prioritization skills, as well as strong attention to detail.
• Detail oriented, results driven, and the ability to navigate in a quickly changing and high demand environment to develop solutions while balancing multiple priorities.
• Critical thinking using both analytical and tactical approach to problem solving within the Quantitative Modeling team is required.
• Ability to interact effectively with team members across the management team, Lines of Business (LOB), credit officers, finance, model governance, oversight, validation, and audit organizations.
• Proven project management skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills required.
• Experience using AI tools preferred.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position will not supervise employees.

Licenses and Certifications

There are no additional certifications required.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.

*Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds.*

Travel

Ability to travel to various worksites and be on-call is not required.

Pay Transparency
The anticipated starting salary range for this role is $84,700.00 - $ 183,151.00
This position is eligible for an organizational performance based annual bonus, subject to board discretion and approval.
This position is eligible for an individual performance based annual bonus.

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Benefits

At PenFed, we offer a robust benefits package designed to support you both personally and professionally. You'll have access to comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans; paid time off; and family-friendly benefits like paid parental leave, care support, and fitness center access. Financial wellness is encouraged through features like a 401(k) match, employee loan discounts, and fully paid life and disability coverage. We also support growth via education assistance, community involvement, and volunteer opportunities.

Our Purpose

Helping members achieve their dreams since 1935. Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed) is one of America's largest federal credit unions, serving 2.8 million members worldwide with $29 billion in assets. PenFed offers market-leading certificates, checking and savings, credit cards, personal loans, mortgages, auto loans, and a wide range of other financial services, always with members' interests in mind. PenFed is federally insured by the NCUA and is an Equal Housing Lender.

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices PenFed Realty, LLC is a full-service real estate company ready to assist our clients with buying, selling and renting a home. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of PenFed Credit Union and is the largest independently-owned brokerage in the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices network, placing us in the top 1% of all real estate brokerages in the country. With almost 60 offices and nearly 2,000 world-class sales professionals, we offer complete service coverage in Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Kansas and Texas. In addition, we also offer specialized client services which include management of vacation properties and long-term rentals, corporate relocation services and national referral network.

Equal Employment Opportunity

PenFed management will maintain and observe personnel policies which will not discriminate or permit harassment or retaliation against a person because of race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, military or veteran status or obligation, the presence of a physical and/or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, and all statuses protected by applicable state or local law in all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, position classifications, work assignments, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment, and in all other terms and conditions of employment. PenFed will also prohibit retaliation against individuals for raising a complaint of discrimination or harassment or participating in an investigation of same. PenFed will also reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can apply for a job or perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation or if the accommodation creates an undue hardship to PenFed. Contact human resources (HR) with any questions or requests for accommodation at Careers@PenFed.org .