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Lead Data Scientist - Mentor

Location: Washington, DC - Hybrid

Full-time - No C2C

Top 8 Technical Skills:
• Data Science
• Sagemaker
• AWS Services
• Python
• SQL
• Glue, EMR, Redshift
• Fannie, Freddie, Ginnie or Mortgage/Financial Experience
• Model Governance/Compliance

Top 3 Soft Skills:
• Good Communications
• Leadership Experience
• Fannie, Freddie, Ginnie or Secondary Mortgage Experience

Company / Project Description / Business Driver

Model Transformation driven by FHFA

Job Description:

Guiding and mentoring group of 105 in Data Science

Minimum Required Experiences:
• 2+ years in relevant mortgage and/or finance industry (business process optimization or real estate management functions preferred)
• Bachelors degree in Business Analytics, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering Finance, Math, Physics, Statistics, or a related field
• Programming including coding, debugging, and using relevant programming languages (SQL, R including RShiny and Markdown)
• Skilled in the process of analyzing data to identify trends or relationships to inform conclusions about the data.
• Skilled at analytical storytelling, such as graphical representation of information in the form of charts, diagrams, pictures, and dashboards with programs and tools such as Tableau, R or Power BI. This also includes gathering accurate information and listening to explain concepts and answer critical questions.
• Expertise in building and using statistical methods, including testing hypotheses, sampling, using experimental design, running more traditional linear and logistic regressions, developing ML models, and implementing modeling applications.
• Skilled in the drafting of technical documentation to support both econometric analysis and system implementation.
• Communication including communicating in writing or verbally and planning and distributing communications, etc.
• Experience defining and managing changes to documents, code, computer programs, and other files to enable collaboration and ensure teams are working from the latest version, leveraging tools such as GitHub and Bitbucket.

Desired Experiences:
• Masters in Data Science, Economics, Math, Statistics, or a related field
• Partnering with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal.
• Ability to frame ideas as systems and analyzing the inputs, outputs, and process.
• The group of skills related to Business Insight including advising, designing business models, interpreting customer and market insights, forecasting, benchmarking, etc.
• The group of skills related to Influencing, including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict.
• Adept at managing project plans, resources, and people to ensure successful project completion, leveraging tools such as JIRA.
• Skilled with operating on cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, and other AWS offerings, development, and networking platforms.
• Experience with teaching and/or advising less seasoned professionals in modeling techniques and approaches.
• Experience with the real estate valuation, sales, repairs and property preservation functions would be a plus.

About SES: Systems Engineering Services Corporation (SESC), founded in 1989, is a leading provider of technology solutions to Fortune 1000 companies and government organizations. Specializing in Accelerated Development Services (agile application development, mobile, systems integration, project and program management), Architecture Services (SOA, microservices, Cloud), Data Services (DW, BI, Big Data), Testing, Cyber Security and DevOps, SESC is guided by a corporate mission to provide valuable solutions to our client s technology needs through responsive quality services.

Benefits include: salary, overtime pay, medical, dental, vision, paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid vacation, 401K AND More.

Contact Information: Please contact me the complete details of the client company, environment, and the position. Please send your resume to rstarinieri at sesc. com

I look forward to speaking with you.

Robin Starinieri

Director of Recruiting

SESC