Lead Quantitative Analytics Specialist

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Quantitative Analytics Specialist.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex initiatives including creation, implementation, documentation, validation, articulation, and defense of highly statistical theory
• Qualify monitor markets and forecast credit and operational risks
• Strategize short and long-term objectives, and provide analytical support for a wide array of business initiatives
• Utilize stochastic, structured securities, spread analysis, with the expertise in the theory and mathematics behind the analysis
• Review and assess models inclusive of technical, audit, and market perspectives
• Identify structure and scope of review
• Enable decision making for product and marketing with broad impact and act as key participant to develop and document analytical models
• Collaborate and consult with regulators and auditors
• Present results of analysis and strategies

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Quantitative Analytics experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Master's degree or higher in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, statistics, engineering, physics, economics, or computer science

Desired Qualifications:

• Required to work individually or as part of a team on multiple data science projects and work closely with business partners across the organization. Mentor and coach budding Data Scientist on developing and implementing data science solutions.
• Perform various complex activities related to statistical/machine learning. Provide analytical support for developing, evaluating, implementing, monitoring and executing models across business verticals using emerging technologies including but not limited to Python, Spark, and H2O etc.
• Expert knowledge on working on large datasets using SQL and present conclusions to key stakeholders.
• Establish a consistent and collaborative framework with the business and act as a primary point of contact in delivering the solutions.
• Experience in building quick prototypes to check feasibility and value to business.
• Expert in developing  and maintaining modular code-base for reusability
• Review and validate models and help improve the performance of the model under the preview of the banking regulations.
• Work closely with multiple teams such as technology, ML Ops, MRM teams to deploy the models to production.
• Prepare detailed documentations for projects for both internal and external that complies regulatory and internal audit requirements
• Mentor and guide junior team members and work on multiple analytics/data science initiatives.
• PhD in statistics/ economics/ mathematics/ operations research or similar is mandatory
• 3+ years of must have hands on exposure in Python, PySpark and SQL.
• Expert knowledge of libraries like sckit-learn, pandas, numpy, mllib, matplotlib, keras
• Expert in data mining and statistical analysis.
• 5+ Experience in developing, implementing models.
• Statistical models – linear regression, logistic regression, time series analysis, multivariate statistical analysis
• Machine learning models – Random Forest, XGBoost, GBM, SVM
• Exposure to deep learning framework - ANN,RNN, CNN, LSTM
• Excellent understanding of model metrics including AUC, ROC, F-statistics etc. with clear understanding of how model performance is tuned
• Strong programing skills.
• Hands on knowledge in one or more of Big Data skills  – SQL, Aster, Teradata, Hadoop, SPARK, H20, Big Query.
• Exposure to Google Cloud Platform
• Critical thinking and strong problem solving skills
• Ability to learn the business aspects quickly and handle multiple projects.

Job Expectations:

• 2+ years of knowledge of banking industry and products in at least one of the LOB such as credit cards, mortgage, deposits, loans or wealth management etc.is desirable
• Knowledge of functional area such as risk, marketing, operations or supply chain in banking industry is desirable
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize between projects 
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Working expertise in Tensorflow, Keras or Pytorch would be added advantage.
• Working knowledge in developing end-to-end AI/ML pipeline in Apache Spark, Sparkling Waters, H2O, Caffe in Hortonworks/Cloudera/MapR or Teradata Aster big data platforms.
• Ability to work with Data Engineers in discovering and optimizing bottlenecks in the AI/ML pipeline for real-time or near-real-time applications that consumes large throughput of data

Posting End Date: 

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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