Capital Markets Data Science Manager (Hybrid)

Company Description

At Fannie Mae, futures are made. The inspiring work we do helps make a home a possibility for millions of homeowners and renters. Every day offers compelling opportunities to use tech to tackle housing’s biggest challenges and impact the future of the industry. You’ll be a part of an expert team thriving in an energizing, flexible environment. Here, you will grow your career and help create access to fair, affordable housing finance.

Job Description

As a valued leader on the team, you will manage a team who produce insights, new product or change recommendations, process improvement or automation, and predictive modeling for parts of projects, programs, or products. You will develop the team's skills in data mining and data analysis methods, large data processing techniques, and computational programing capabilities, as well as problem-solving and communication skills. In this role, you will manage the coordination with the data engineering and data management teams, and external or created data sources to apply data mining techniques in preparation for analysis or use of enterprise data assets.
THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE
The Capital Markets Data Science Manager (Hybrid) role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

• Coordinate team activities with product and/or business owners, data engineers, and platform teams to understand business needs and current capabilities, data availability, and alternative uses to drive success of parts of projects, programs, or products.
• Ensure application of statistical modeling capabilities from disciplines, such as computer science, computational science and methods, statistics, econometrics, data optimization, and data visualization.
• Build predictive analytic capabilities within the team to enhance the delivery of business applications, and support the integration of data and statistical models or algorithms. Apply innovative industry practices in research and testing to product development, deployment, and maintenance.
• Oversee the design and build of new modeling applications to support risk measurement, financial valuation, decision making, and business performance for parts of products or initiatives.
• Ensure the team communicates complex ideas and solutions effectively to business partners through data visualizations, technical documentation, and non-technical presentation materials.
• Coordinate a team to provide tactical insights to the Capital Markets teams quickly through expertise in Fannie Mae's huge public and proprietary databases
• Develop statistical and predictive models to inform new policies and decision making
• Work with junior members of the team directly to help develop their technical and analytical skills
• Build shared understanding with our partners in Capital Markets, help identify pain points in their work, and build solutions that alleviate those pain points
• Uphold high standards for quality and accuracy in analytic

Qualifications

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM
Minimum Required Experiences

• 6 years

Skills

• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand
• Experience gathering accurate information to explain concepts and answer critical questions
• Skilled in the graphical representation of information in the form of a charts, diagrams, pictures, and dashboards with programs and tools such as Excel, Tableau, or Power BI
• Experience helping an organization to plan and manage change in effort to meet strategic objectives
• Experience in the process of analyzing data to identify trends or relationships to inform conclusions about the data
• Communication including communicating in writing or verbally, copywriting, planning and distributing communication, etc.
• Determining causes of operating errors and taking corrective action
• Programming including coding, debugging, and using relevant programming languages
• Adept at managing project plans, resources, and people to ensure successful project completion
• Collective capabilities for leadership, including leading teams, giving feedback, facilitating meetings, and coaching and mentoring
• Experience defining and managing changes to documents, code, computer programs, websites, and other files to enable collaboration and ensure teams are working from the latest version
• Expertise in using statistical methods, including: developing and testing hypotheses, using experimental design, and running linear and logistic regressions
• Product Development including designing products, developing product roadmaps, translating design requirements, prototyping, etc.
• Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict
• Ability to frame ideas as systems and analyzing the inputs, outputs, and process
• Experience evaluating businesses, projects, budgets, and other financial entities or instruments to determine viability, stability, and performance

Tools

• Skilled in using Bloomberg Professional
• Skilled in SQL
• Skilled in Tableau
• Skilled in using Intex
• Skilled in RStudio to develop programs in R
• Experience using APIs for developing or programming software
• Skilled in R Language Programming
• Experience using BitBucket
• Skilled in DBeaver SQL client software
• Skilled in R Markdown
• Experience using JIRA

Desired Experiences

• Bachelor degree or equivalent
• 6 years of relevant experience 
• Leadership Skills
  • Ability to direct and evaluate the more technical aspects of data analysis and research, while also managing team in a timely manner to focus on the broader context and key impacts of the analysis
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Relationship management including managing and engaging stakeholders, partners, customers, and building relationship networks
• Technical Skills
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to conduct and manage analysis to address complex business problems
  • Programming including coding, debugging, and using relevant languages such as Python, R, SQL, or similar
  • Experience in the process of analyzing data to identify trends or relationships to generate business insights and inform conclusions about the data
  • Expertise in visualizing data to identify, summarize and explain observed data patterns
  • Experience with Version Control Software

• Experience helping an organization to plan and manage change in effort to meet strategic objectives

• Management experience including leading teams, giving feedback, facilitating meetings, and coaching and mentoring
• Skilled in cloud technologies and cloud computing
• Experience defining and managing changes to documents, code, computer programs, websites, and other files to enable collaboration and ensure teams are working from the latest version
• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand using graphical representation of information in the form of a charts, diagrams, pictures, and dashboards with programs and tools such as Excel, Tableau, R Shiny or similar
• Expertise in using statistical methods, including: developing and testing hypotheses, using experimental design, and running linear and logistic regressions

Additional Information

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Fannie Mae is an Equal Opportunity Employer, which means we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, personal appearance, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation in the application process, email us at [email protected].

The hiring range for this role is set forth on each of our job postings located on Fannie Mae's Career Site. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to, skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package, Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee’s physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. See more here.