Mindlance
Data Scientist Specialist
McLean, Virginia, USA · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- Your Work Falls Into Four Primary Categories:
- Conducting sensitivity analysis and impact assessment for model updates and changes in model inputs.
- Model Governance Preparing model documentation and conducting thorough model validation tests.
Responsibilities
- The successful candidate will contribute to the development of mortgage valuation model and conduct portfolio analysis to support trading and hedging activities.
- Portfolio Analysis Developing and enhancing valuation processes and risk metrics for our retained portfolio of mortgage products.
- Developing on-going performance monitoring and threshold methodology.
- Business Support Providing analytics support for trading and hedging activities.
- Working under limited direction, independently determining and developing approach to solutions.
- Client is seeking a Quantitative Analytics Tech Lead to join the Models & Analytics group to develop and enhance mortgage prepayment, default and severity models for portfolio management.
- The team is responsible for developing models and conducting quantitative analysis to support valuation and hedging of mortgage products.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience with modelling- with at least 3-5 years of experience model testing and model development.
Nice to have
- Candidate must have a quantitative degree- master’s degree required but Doctorate is preferred.
- Doctorate degree plus 3 years of working experience (or Master''''''''s degree with equivalent 5 years of working experience) in statistics, data science or a related quantitative field.
- 5+ years of relevant experience applying predictive modeling techniques or data analytics to large datasets is preferred.
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