Quantitative Modeling - Director (Remote)

Company Description

At Fannie Mae, futures are made. The inspiring work we do makes an affordable home a reality and a difference in the lives of Americans. Every day offers compelling opportunities to modernize the nation's housing finance system while being part of an inclusive team using new, emerging technologies. Here, you will help lead our industry forward, enhance your technical expertise, and make your career.

Job Description

As a valued contributor to our team, you will apply extensive and diversified knowledge of principles, advanced techniques, and theories to create unprecedented solutions for theoretical and empirical research with public and proprietary data in all areas of mortgage finance business, including mortgage products and securities, borrower behavior, investment and hedging strategies, residential property valuation, macroeconomic models including housing prices and interest rate, financial valuation of finance assets and derivatives, economic capital, and stress testing.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE
This team 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:

Lead a team of highly skilled professionals to:

• Develop model risk reporting and analytical applications using Python and other open-source technologies.
• Contribute to an agile development process for continuous iteration and improvement of the technological roadmap for model risk monitoring and information management
• Utilize UI/UX best practices to develop applications that delight and inform stakeholders on relevant model risk data.
• Employ version control, automated testing, and thoughtful objected oriented design to develop resilient and scalable applications
• Develop robust data models for querying and delivering analytical insights to oversight and model development staff
• Architect information flow, annotation, and indexing strategies to improve department processes.

Qualifications

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences

• 4 years of relevant work experience

Functional Skills

• Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal
• Skilled in influencing, negotiating, persuading others and resolving conflict
• Familiarity with mortgage finance
• Work experience at a large financial services firm (SIFI or GSIB)
• Proficient written and oral communication skill in delivering complex technical information to diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated experience with stakeholder management and interactions with regulatory entities.
• Strategic mindset with clear understanding of business operations and insights related to risk modeling 

Technical Skills 

• Object oriented software development experience
• Expertise in utilizing technology tools and open-source programming languages (Python, R.) to support business or risk management processes
• Knowledge of database design, information management, and web application development

Desired Experiences

• 8 years of relevant experience 
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent industry technology experience as a software architect or technical lead
• Expertise in objected-oriented software development, DevOps and continuous deployment, microservices architectures and/or unit and regression testing
• AWS cloud certifications or similar cloud development expertise
• Focused experience in dashboard development and data models, including OLAP/OLTP, data partitioning, normalization models, query patterns, columnar data formats, and dimensional modeling/star schema
• Focused experience with UI/UX workflow development including single-page application in Angular/React, design thinking, wireframe prototyping, and click logging/user experience analysis

Additional Information

The future is what you make it to be. Discover compelling opportunities at Fanniemae.com/careers.

Fannie Mae is primarily a hybrid company.  We embrace flexibility for our employees while providing office space for in-person work and collaboration.  This role is classified as (Remote). If you speak with a Recruiter, they will provide you with more information about the definition of this classification.

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, g