Senior Director, Credit Risk ML Strategy (Remote)

First National Bank of Omaha; Louisiana; Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401k with Matching

Tuition Assistance

Health Savings Account

Job summary

First National Bank of Omaha is seeking a Sr. Director, Advanced Data Scientist to shape the modeling roadmap for credit decisioning and portfolio management. You will lead cross-functional discussions, guide advanced ML development, and own end-to-end model delivery across acquisition and risk segments.

You will apply cutting-edge ML techniques, ensure regulatory alignment, and build monitoring to sustain performance and business impact at scale. Remote-ready with onsite options as needed.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Statistics, Data Science, CS, Math, OR, Econometrics, or related field.
• PhD strongly preferred for strong research in ML, stats, or quantitative finance.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the multi-year modeling roadmap for credit-risk acquisition and portfolio models.
• Lead discussions with senior stakeholders to align methodology and risk considerations.
• Independently design and develop advanced ML models for credit decisioning and risk.
• Translate business objectives into modeling frameworks and performance criteria.
• Establish training/validation/out-of-time testing strategies and document results.
• Develop monitoring frameworks for model performance and drift.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Gradient Boosting

XGBoost

LightGBM

SHAP

Explainability

Education

Master's degree or PhD in a quantitative field

PhD strongly preferred

Tools

None

Job description

First National Bank of Omaha is seeking a Sr. Director, Advanced Data Scientist to shape the modeling roadmap for credit decisioning and portfolio management. You will lead cross-functional discussions, guide advanced ML development, and own end-to-end model delivery across acquisition and risk segments.

You will apply cutting-edge ML techniques, ensure regulatory alignment, and build monitoring to sustain performance and business impact at scale. Remote-ready with onsite options as needed.