Data Scientist Senior – Economic Forecasting

Why USAA

At USAA our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA where our core values honesty integrity loyalty and service define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a dedicated Data Scientist Senior on the CFO Economic Forecasting team. In this role you will perform empirical analyses to assess the U.S macroeconomy and produce forecasts of the macroeconomy at the level of disaggregated variables. You will develop and produce macroeconomic scenario forecasts to assess risks to the baseline forecast. Translate business problems into applied statistical machine learning simulation and optimization solutions to inform actionable business insights and drive business value through automation revenue generation and expense and risk reduction. In collaboration with engineering partners deliver solutions at scale and enable customerfacing applications. Leverage database cloud and programming knowledge to build analytical modeling solutions using statistical and machine learning techniques. Collaborate with other data scientists to improve USAAs tooling expanding the companys library of internal packages and applications. Work with model risk management to validate the results and stability of models before being pushed to production at scale.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in the following locations: San Antonio TX Plano TX Charlotte NC Tampa FL Phoenix AZ or Colorado Springs CO.

Relocation assistance IS available for this position.

What youll do:

• Gathers interprets and manipulates structured and unstructured data to enable advanced analytical solutions for the business.
• Develops scalable automated solutions using machine learning simulation and optimization to deliver business insights and business value.
• Selects the appropriate modeling technique and/or technology with consideration to data limitations application and business needs.
• Develops and deploys models within the Model Development Control (MDC) and Model Risk Management (MRM) framework.
• Composes and assists peers with composing technical documents for knowledge persistence risk management and technical review audiences.
• Assesses business needs to propose/recommend analytical and modeling projects to add business value. Works with business and analytics leaders to prioritize analytics and modeling problems/research efforts.
• Builds and maintains a robust library of reusable productionquality algorithms and supporting code to ensure model development and research efforts are transparent and based on the highest quality data.
• Translates complex business request(s) into specific analytical questions executes on the analysis and/or modeling and then communicates outcomes to nontechnical business colleagues with focus on business action and recommendations.
• Manages project milestones risks and impediments. Escalates potential issues that could limit project success or implementation.
• Develops best practices for engaging with Data Engineering and IT to deploy productionready analytical assets consistent with modeling best practices and model risk management standards.
• Maintains expertise and awareness of cuttingedge techniques. Actively seeks opportunities and materials to learn new techniques technologies and methodologies.
• Serves as a mentor to junior data scientists in modeling analytics and computer science tasks.
• Participates in internal communities that drive the maintenance and transformation of data science technologies and culture.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified measured monitored and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

• Bachelors degree in mathematics computer science statistics economics finance actuarial sciences science and engineering or other similar quantitative discipline; OR 4 years of experience in statistics mathematics quantitative analytics or related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• 6 years of experience in a predictive analytics or data analysis OR Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters PhD) in mathematics computer science statistics economics finance actuarial sciences science and engineering or other similar quantitative discipline and 4 years of experience in predictive analytics or data analysis.
• 4 years of experience in training and validating statistical physical machine learning and other advanced analytics models.
• 4 years of experience in one or more dynamic scripted language (such as Python R etc.) for performing statistical analyses and/or building and scoring AI/ML models.
• Proven experience writing code that is easy to follow well documented and commented where necessary to explain logic (high code transparency).
• Strong experience in querying and preprocessing data from structured and/or unstructured databases using query languages such as SQL HQL NoSQL etc.
• Strong experience in working with structured semistructured and unstructured data files such as delimited numeric data files JSON/XML files and/or text documents images etc.
• Demonstrated skill in performing adhoc analytics using descriptive diagnostic and inferential statistics.
• Ability to assess and articulate regulatory implications and expectations of distinct modeling efforts.
• Advanced experience with the concepts and technologies associated with classical supervised modeling for prediction such as linear/logistic regression discriminant analysis support vector machines decision trees forest models etc.
• Advanced experience with the concepts and technologies associated with unsupervised modeling such as kmeans clustering hierarchical/agglomerative clustering neighbors algorithms DBSCAN etc.
• Experience guiding and mentoring junior technical staff in business interactions and model building.
• Experience communicating analytical and modeling results to nontechnical business partners with emphasis on business recommendations and actionable applications of results.

What sets you apart:

• Experience conducting empirical macroeconomic research and forecasting.
• Proven experience using U.S. macroeconomic data to conduct empirical analysis.
• Demonstrated experience building econometric/statistical/AI models.
• Experience translating empirical work into graphical and professional presentation formats and presenting results to diverse audiences.
• US military experience through military service or a military spouse/domestic partner.

Compensation range: The salary range for this position is: $143320 $273930

Compensation: USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location.

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

Benefits: At USAA our employees enjoy bestinclass benefits to support their physical financial and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical dental and vision plans 401(k) pension life insurance parental benefits adoption assistance paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours and various wellness programs. Additionally our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

For more details on our outstanding benefits visit our benefits page on .

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.

USAA 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 or status as a protected veteran.