
Senior Investment Data Scientist
USAA
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Antonio • Arizona • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $143,320 - $273,930 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Gathers, interprets, and manipulates structured and unstructured data to enable advanced analytical solutions for the business.
- Develops scalable, automated solutions using machine learning, simulation, and optimization to deliver business insights and business value.
- Selects the appropriate modeling technique and/or technology with consideration to data limitations, application, and business needs.
- Develops and deploys models within the Model Development Control (MDC) and Model Risk Management (MRM) framework.
- Composes, and assists peers with composing, technical documents for knowledge persistence, risk management, and technical review audiences.
- Assesses business needs to propose/recommend analytical and modeling projects to add business value.
- Works with business and analytics leaders to prioritize analytics and modeling problems/research efforts.
- Builds and maintains a robust library of reusable, production-quality algorithms and supporting code, to ensure model development and research efforts are visible and based on the highest quality data.
- Translates complex business request(s) into specific analytical questions, completes the analysis and/or modeling, and then communicates outcomes to non-technical business colleagues with focus on business action and recommendations.
- Handles project landmarks, risks, and impediments.
- Calls out potential issues that could limit project success or implementation.
- Develops standard methodologies for engaging with Data Engineering and IT to deploy production-ready analytical assets consistent with modeling procedures and model risk management standards.
- Maintains expertise and awareness of pioneering techniques.
- Actively seeks opportunities and materials to learn new techniques, technologies, and methodologies.
- Serves as a mentor to junior data scientists in modeling, analytics, and computer science tasks.
- Participates in internal communities that drive the maintenance and transformation of data science technologies and culture.
- Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, computer science, statistics, economics, finance, actuarial sciences, science and engineering, or other similar quantitative field; OR 4 years of experience in statistics, mathematics, quantitative analytics, or related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
- 6 years of experience in a predictive analytics or data analysis OR Advanced Degree (e.g., Master’s, PhD) in mathematics, computer science, statistics, economics, finance, actuarial sciences, science and engineering, or other similar quantitative field and 4 years of experience in predictive analytics or data analysis.
- 4 years of experience in training and validating statistical, physical, machine learning, and other advanced analytics models.
- 4 years of experience in one or more dynamic scripted language (such as Python, R, etc.) for performing statistical analyses and/or building and scoring AI/ML models.
- Validated experience writing code that is easy to follow, well documented, and commented where necessary to explain logic (high code visibility).
- Strong experience in querying and preprocessing data from structured and/or unstructured databases using query languages such as SQL, HQL, NoSQL, etc.
- Strong experience in working with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data files such as delimited numeric data files, JSON/XML files, and/or text documents, images, etc.
- Demonstrated skill in performing ad-hoc analytics using descriptive, diagnostic, and inferential statistics.
- Ability to assess and articulate regulatory implications and expectations of distinct modeling efforts.
- Advanced experience with the concepts and technologies associated with classical supervised modeling for prediction such as linear/logistic regression, discriminant analysis, support vector machines, decision trees, forest models, etc.
- Advanced experience with the concepts and technologies associated with unsupervised modeling such as k-means clustering, hierarchical/agglomerative clustering, neighbors’ algorithms, DBSCAN, etc.
- Experience guiding and mentoring junior technical staff in business interactions and model building.
- Experience communicating analytical and modeling results to non-technical business partners with emphasis on business recommendations and actionable applications of results.
Benefits
- comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
- 401(k)
- pension
- life insurance
- parental benefits
- adoption assistance
- paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours
- various wellness programs
- career path planning and continuing education
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningpredictive analyticsdata analysisstatistical modelingPythonRSQLHQLNoSQLdata preprocessing
Soft Skills
communicationmentoringproblem-solvingproject managementcollaborationanalytical thinkingrisk managementtechnical writingbusiness acumenadaptability