Hybrid Senior Manager, Decision Management & Lending Rules

PenFed Credit Union; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

PenFed Credit Union in Tysons, Virginia, is seeking a Hybrid Sr Manager Decision Management to oversee PenFed’s decision engines and rule architecture. You will manage internal teams and external resources, driving speed of change, reusability and transparency of rules, while collaborating with Consumer Banking Technology Office, Enterprise Data, and Analytics teams.

The role requires deep experience in business rules, architecture, model execution, and leadership, with a focus on compliance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, engineering, math, or statistics; master’s preferred.
• Minimum 12 years in Business Rules development.
• Minimum 2 years of application architecture experience.
• Minimum 8 years of model execution domain experience.
• Minimum 4 years of direct management experience.
• Experience with consumer lending credit systems preferred.
• Experience with SQL Server, client-server and GUI-based development tools.
• Knowledge of FICO LOS preferred.
• Strong champion-challenger analysis experience.
• AI tools preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead application architect for decision engines used by the Consumer Bank.
• Design best-in-class consumer originations architecture to PenFed’s vision.
• Demonstrate rule cascades, trees, and code branching to executives.
• Maintain deployment architecture and processes per best practices.
• Lead design and maintenance of decision rules/scoring engines incl. automated underwriting.
• Extend decisioning into other areas of consumer banking.
• Oversee data inputs, movement and model execution for centralized decision making.
• Optimize rules platforms across loan originations and account management.

Skills

Leadership

Management experience

Rules development

Champion Challenger analysis

AI tools experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/engineering/math/statistics

Tools

SQL Server

GUI-based development tools

Job description

PenFed Credit Union in Tysons, Virginia, is seeking a Hybrid Sr Manager Decision Management to oversee PenFed’s decision engines and rule architecture. You will manage internal teams and external resources, driving speed of change, reusability and transparency of rules, while collaborating with Consumer Banking Technology Office, Enterprise Data, and Analytics teams.

The role requires deep experience in business rules, architecture, model execution, and leadership, with a focus on compliance