Location: Fort Worth or Dallas (Addison) or Charlotte, NC. - Hybrid - 2 Days per week in office.
Overview: The ideal candidate's favorite words are learning, data, scale, and agility. You will leverage your strong collaboration skills and ability to extract valuable insights from highly complex data sets to ask the right questions and find the right answers. Our client is seeking a Data Science Manager with at least 5 years of experience in building financial models, particularly in risk and loan modeling. And at least 2 years of management experience. The ideal candidate will have a background in banking or fintech with exposure to regulated data.
Company Description:
Our client is a mid-size fintech company specialized in assisting their clients build their credit.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading a team of two to three data scientists while still being hands on.
- Develop and maintain financial models, with a focus on risk modeling and loan modeling.
- Work in a Python environment, leveraging standard data science packages.
- Process and analyze large amounts of data using Snowflake and SQL.
- Replace legacy models with new, more efficient models.
- Collaborate with the team to build infrastructure for model retraining.
- Potentially use visualization tools like Power BI or Looker for data presentation.
- Occasionally present findings and models to leadership.
Qualifications:
- 2-3 of leadership and management experience.
- 5 years of experience building financial models, preferably in a banking or fintech setting.
- Knowledge of material data and experience with linear and non-linear models.
- Experience working with regulated data.
- Familiarity with data processing in Snowflake and SQL.
- Proficiency in Python, with previous experience in R being a plus.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex ideas to non-technical stakeholders.
- Masters degree or PhD preferred.
Benefits:
- Healthcare, Dental, and Vision plans available.
- 15% yearly bonus.
- 15+ days of paid PTO annually.
- 11 paid holidays.