Senior Data Scientist – Business Optimization & ML Governance

General information

Career area Consumer Analytics Work Location(s)2911 Lake Vista Drive, TXRemote?

No

Ref #22439

Posted Date
06-03-26

Working time

Full time

Ally and Your Career Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion.

From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?

Work Schedule:

Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.

The Opportunity Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that's more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion.

From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You're constantly evolving, so shouldn't your opportunities be, too?

As a leader in digital financial services, our customer and employee experiences run on data. We depend on the Ally analytics community to fuel these journeys and to help nearly 10,000 leaders and employees make countless data-driven decisions every day. At Ally, every individual is a risk manager. In alignment with our risk culture, this position will ensure the appropriate identification, assessment, and measurement of risk related to the Consumer Auto portfolio.

When necessary, identified risks will be escalated to the appropriate channels to ensure reasonable resolution.

We're looking for a passionate Senior Data Scientist with great technical and analytical skills for our Auto Consumer Asset Management group. This person will report to the Manager of Data Science for consumer asset management, with responsibilities of (1) supporting through-the-cycle predictive ML and data modeling for Ally consumer financial health & portfolio risk, (2) conducting large-scale A/B testing to scientifically assess the effectiveness of alternative risk strategies to achieve business optimization, (3), supporting model performance monitoring, ML risk governance (annual reviews, business line auditing) (4) independently processing and analyzing massive internal & external data (e.g. credit bureau, data vendors) to monitor Ally asset performance and benchmark against industry.

The ideal candidate should be passionate about consumer predictive modeling, prescriptive analytics, and business optimization for banking & financial services. Strong SQL and Python programming skills are a must. Do you have a focus on predicting customer behavior, managing portfolio risk, strong analytical skills, and a desire to make an impact? If you are a creative and critical thinker, storyteller, learner, and innovator and want to work in an environment focused on using data science and big data tech, keep reading.

The Work Itself This role is quantitative in nature and requires the individual highly capable of interrogating and analyzing massive account-level data using SQL and Python. Skills for other programming, data mining tools such as H2O and Data Robot are preferred. He or she will join the data science team under consumer asset management of Ally auto…