Senior Director, Data Science - Head of Fair Lending Analytics - Fair & Responsible Banking Compliance

Discover Financial
Richmond
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 286,200 - 326,700 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Leadership","Stakeholder management","Communication","Risk mitigation","Backtesting and model validation"]

Lead fair lending analytics within the Fair & Responsible Banking Compliance team, guiding data scientists and analysts to identify and mitigate fair lending and related compliance risk. Partner with Legal and cross-functional teams of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver data-driven insights. Build and validate machine learning models and develop responsible data use and AI processes to support lending decisions and ongoing monitoring.

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Senior Director, Data Science - Head of Fair Lending Analytics - Fair & Responsible Banking Compliance

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Job Summary

Lead fair lending analytics within the Fair & Responsible Banking Compliance team, guiding data scientists and analysts to identify and mitigate fair lending and related compliance risk. Partner with Legal and cross-functional teams of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver data-driven insights. Build and validate machine learning models and develop responsible data use and AI processes to support lending decisions and ongoing monitoring.
Location: Richmond
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead a team of data scientists and analysts supporting fair lending reviews and monitoring to identify and mitigate compliance risk.
  • •Partner with cross-functional teams of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver customer-focused outcomes.
  • •Build machine learning models end-to-end (design, training, evaluation, validation, and implementation).
  • •Develop and implement fair lending and responsible data use processes to enable credit decisioning in an AI world.
  • •Translate analytical complexity into tangible business goals and appropriately escalate issues to mitigate compliance risk.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 286,200 - 326,700 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Quantitative degree (Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD, or MBA with quantitative concentration) with relevant years of data analytics experience (11/9/6 years respectively).
  • •6+ years leveraging open-source programming languages for large-scale data analysis.
  • •6+ years working with machine learning.
  • •6+ years utilizing relational databases.
  • •4+ years of experience managing people. (Preferred)
Experience:Open sourceMachine learningLarge scale data analysis
Education:
Skills:LeadershipStakeholder managementCommunicationRisk mitigationBacktesting and model validation
Tech Stack:PythonCondaAWSH2OSparkScalaROpen sourceRelational databases

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Sponsorship available.

Company Brief

Discover Financial
Provides consumer banking products, credit cards, personal loans, and payment services through the Discover brand. It operates a major U.S. financial network and serves individuals and merchants with lending and digital payment solutions.
Industry: Retail Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 10M to 25M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Riverwoods, United States
Founded: 1985
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