Quantitative Analytics Sr. (Hybrid - 3 Days in Office - VA)

At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you’ll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.

Production Defects/Issues Management

• Gather and document data requirements and rules based on business needs to help with production issues/defect tracking.

• Help develop Business user acceptance test scenarios/cases, develop test scripts, and test data as needed to ensure the data flow meets reporting and analytical needs.

• Perform extensive data mining and data profiling of Credit Analytics data.

Operations Support

• Understand business context and needs, and accordingly understand data flow from various structure/unstructured formats.

• Ensure completion of data analysis/lineage, operational support requirements such as SLAs and control reports, and other technical/business support as appropriate for the effort.

• Able to grasp system process flows and identify data points, calculations and business rules and help enhance operational processes.

• Understand and analyze current production process and help identify/analyze/document gaps and clearly communicate the same to the team.

• Act as liaison between business users and upstream operations teams to ensure all parties have complete understanding of issues/requests, requirements and process steps to ensure alignment and successful outcome.

• Follows established processes, procedures, and directions.

• Responsible for maintaining process documentation and other relevant records as needed.

• Be a creative thinker and can adapt to a quickly changing environment.

• Manage concurrent and multiple priorities within fast changing environment and meet tight deadlines

• Support weekend and late night deployments and production issues.

• Monitor daily production jobs and communicate to CAR users in a timely basis.

Qualifications

• College Degree or equivalent experience; advanced studies/degree preferred

• Typically has 5 - 7 years related experience

• Experience with database, data model and data warehouse concepts

• 7+ years of SQL programming experience

• 5+ years of SAS, Informatica, Unix programming skills or similar programming experience

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Work, Excel, etc.)

Key to success in this role

• Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability to changes

• Strong organizational and time management skills and can work on multiple priorities and deadlines

• Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills

• Strong organizational and time management skills

• Excellent communication skills

Top 3 Personal Competencies to possess

• Customer Focus – Personally engage with customers to learn and deliver on their needs

• Partnership – Align myself and my team with what is right for the company

• Drive for Execution – Focus on results rather than the appearance of results

Preferred skills:

• Familiarity with Big Data Hadoop environment is a plus.

• Experience working with Python is a plus

• Experience working with JSON, XML and unstructured data processing

• Mortgage industry experience or financial / credit analysis

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you’ll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

CA Applicants:  Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fa