data scientist Washington, DC
Job description
TECH
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.
As a valued colleague on our team, you will work with your team to apply fundamental techniques to support production of insights, new product or change recommendations, process improvement or automation, and predictive modeling. You will apply basic knowledge of data mining and data analysis methods, have familiarity with common large data processing techniques, computational programing capabilities, and practical problem-solving skills, and articulate solutions to non-technical consumers or partners. Additionally, you will partner with data engineering and data management teams to apply data mining techniques to external or created data sources in preparation for analysis or use of enterprise data assets.
THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE
The Data Science Associate (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:
- Gather and report on business needs and current capabilities, data availability, and alternative uses from product and/or business owners, data engineers, and platform teams.
- Contribute to implementing recommendations regarding modifications to statistical modeling capabilities.
- Build upon basic predictive analytic capabilities to enhance the delivery of business applications, and support the integration of data and statistical models or algorithms. Apply industry practices in research and testing to product development, deployment, and maintenance.
- Partner with more experienced team members to design modeling applications that support risk measurement, financial valuation, decision making, and business performance.
- Partner with team to design data visualizations, technical documentation, and non-technical presentation materials to communicate ideas and solutions to business partners.
- Quantify and prepare statistical and financial projections and reporting materials for executive leadership highlighting variances to forecast and using insights to drive forecasting improvements for our operating model and long-range plans.
- Understand quantitative methodologies used in credit forecasting to be able to explain technical and analytical concepts/results to a non-technical, finance audience.
- Maintain and advance reporting and analytics capabilities to increase transparency and enhance accountability to meet future benefit commitments.
- Support the finance team on various data/process system automation improvement initiatives.
THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM
Desired Experiences
- Bachelor degree or equivalent
Skills
- Experience in the process of analyzing data to identify trends or relationships to inform conclusions about the data
- Determining causes of operating errors and taking corrective action
- Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand
- Expertise in using statistical methods, including: developing and testing hypotheses, using experimental design, and running linear and logistic regressions
- Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal
- Skilled in documentation and database reporting for the purposes of analysis, data discovery, and decision-making with the use of relevant software such as Crystal Reports, Excel, or SSRS
- Skilled in creating and managing databases with the use of relevant software such as MySQL, Hadoop, or MongoDB
- Experience gathering accurate information to explain concepts and answer critical questions
- Communication including communicating in writing or verbally, copywriting, planning and distributing communication, etc.
- 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
- Programming including coding, debugging, and using relevant programming languages
- Skilled in cloud technologies and cloud computing
Tools
- Skilled in SAS
- Skilled in SQL
- Skilled in TOAD SQL database management tool
- Skilled in Tableau
- Skilled in Excel
- Skilled in Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings, development, and networking platforms
- Skilled in RStudio to develop programs in R
- Skilled in Microsoft Teams
- Experience using APIs for developing or programming software
- Skilled in R Language Programming
- Experience using GitHub
- Experience using BitBucket
- Skilled in Plotly
- Skilled in DBeaver SQL client software
- Skilled in Python object-oriented programming
- Skilled in R Markdown
- Skilled in SGPLOT
- Experience using JIRA
- Skilled in AWS Machine Learning tools such as SageMaker, Lex, Polly, or Forecast
Additional Information
The future is what you make it to be. Discover compelling opportunities at careers.fanniemae.com.
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].
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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.
