Quantitative Analytics Specialist

Job Description
About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Quantitative Analytics Specialist.
In this role, you will:

• Develop, implement, and calibrate various analytical models
• Perform highly complex activities related to financial products, business analysis and modeling
• Perform basic statistical and mathematical models using Python, R, SAS, C++ and SQL
• Perform analytical support and provide insights regarding a wide array of business initiatives
• Provide solutions to business needs and analyze workflow processes to make recommendations for process improvement in risk management
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, managers, and regulators to resolve issues and achieve goals

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of Quantitative Analytics experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Master's degree or higher in statistics, mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science, economics, or quantitative discipline

Desired Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in credit risk analytics with exposure to statistical and machine learning model development, implementation or ML Ops
• Strong problem-solving skills
• 2-5 years of advanced programming and debugging skills in Python - OOP, packaging, build and deployment, data structures and algorithms, decorators, logging, exception handling, JIT compilers
• 2+ years of experience in High performance computing, Big Data and real time solutions - PySpark, MapR streaming, parallel processing, real time optimization.
• 2+ years of experience in unit testing, UAT testing, regression testing and code review
• Comfortable with Git, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines and UNIX commands
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

Job Expectations:

• Participate in moderately complex model maintenance and optimization initiatives related to operating processes, controls, reporting, testing, implementation, and documentation
• Review and analyze moderately complex data sets, quantitative models, and model outputs to validate model efficiency and results in support of business initiatives
• Work on moderately complex model optimization and processes strategies
• Collaborate to resolve moderately complex issues and work with team to meet project deliverables while leveraging solid understanding of policies and compliance requirements
• Collaborate and consult with seniors, colleagues, and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
• Provide engineering and analytical solutions across model development, implementation, monitoring and production in a Big Data environment
• Identify opportunities and deliver process improvements, standardization, rationalization and automations

Posting End Date:
1 Jul 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo 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, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
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