Remote Senior Director, Advanced Data Science & Credit Risk

First National Bank of Omaha; South Carolina; Remote; USD 159,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

401k with company match

Tuition assistance

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Job summary

First National Bank of Omaha seeks a Sr. Director, Advanced Data Scientist to lead data science strategy and model development for credit risk and portfolio management.

You will guide multi-year roadmaps, engage senior stakeholders, and drive measurable business impact at scale. Responsibilities include end-to-end model ownership, responsible for variable selection, feature engineering, and deployment, while ensuring interpretability and regulatory alignment.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in a quantitative field.
• PhD strongly preferred for research experience in ML/stats/finance.
• 7+ years of experience building statistical or ML models, preferably in financial services or consumer credit.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the multi-year modeling roadmap for credit-risk models.
• Lead discussions with senior stakeholders to align methodology and risk considerations.
• Develop advanced ML models for credit card acquisition, underwriting, and account management.
• Apply advanced ML techniques to large-scale datasets and ensure model performance.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Gradient boosting

XGBoost/LightGBM

Neural networks

SHAP explainability

Ensemble methods

Credit-risk analytics

Education

Master's degree in statistics or related field

PhD strongly preferred

Tools

XGBoost

LightGBM

SHAP

Job description

First National Bank of Omaha seeks a Sr. Director, Advanced Data Scientist to lead data science strategy and model development for credit risk and portfolio management.

You will guide multi-year roadmaps, engage senior stakeholders, and drive measurable business impact at scale. Responsibilities include end-to-end model ownership, responsible for variable selection, feature engineering, and deployment, while ensuring interpretability and regulatory alignment.