Quantitative Analytics Senior Director - Multifamily Model Research
About The Position
Freddie Mac’s Multifamily Modeling team within Multifamily Portfolio and Risk Management is seeking a Quantitative Analytics Senior Director to lead the Model Research function. This leader oversees research and development of quantitative models supporting multifamily loan acquisition, credit risk management, and property valuation. The role leads a team addressing challenging modeling and research topics, including designing the next generation of the Multifamily credit risk model and developing challenger approaches to current models. The team also provides technical guidance on regulatory issues and internal model validation findings. The position calls for a strong quantitative and strategic leader with a rigorous foundation in statistical modeling and a deep understanding of mortgage and credit risk. The team’s models support loan-origination credit decisioning, credit loss forecasting, enterprise stress testing, and other risk-measurement activities. The team also manages model risk for the Multifamily business, including regulatory issues and internal model validation challenges.
Requirements
- 15+ years of relevant experience in quantitative modeling, mortgage credit risk, commercial real estate analytics, financial risk management, or related fields.
- 8+ years of people leadership or team management experience.
- Strong experience developing or overseeing commercial real estate, mortgage credit risk, default, prepayment, transition, loan acquisition, or portfolio surveillance models.
- Strong understanding of multifamily underwriting, commercial real estate fundamentals, mortgage credit behavior, default risk drivers, and portfolio risk management concepts.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including experience with econometric modeling, survival analysis, transition modeling, statistical modeling, or large-scale data analysis.
- Experience leveraging AI-enabled analytical or model development tools to improve modeling productivity, research workflows, testing, documentation, or analytical insight generation.
- Familiarity with modern model development operations, including reproducibility, workflow management, testing automation, implementation collaboration, or scalable analytical infrastructure.
- Excellent execution skills and experience delivering complex projects.
- Experience working with regulatory, governance, model validation, and audit stakeholders in a model risk management environment.
- Strong programming and analytical tool experience, including Python, R, SQL, SAS, or similar technologies.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to present complex analytical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Rigorous statistical modeling knowledge and a problem-solving mindset to deliver model development projects with measurable business impacts.
- Strong multifamily credit and property performance intuition.
- Strong quantitative judgment and modeling intuition.
- Ability to connect market conditions with multifamily loan and property performance dynamics.
- Strong people leadership and talent development skills.
- Collaborative and execution-oriented leadership style.
- Curiosity, an innovation mindset, and willingness to challenge the status quo.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree (Master’s or Ph.D.) in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field; substantial relevant industry experience may be considered in lieu of an advanced degree.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team conducting research and developing improved modeling frameworks and methodologies for quantitative models.
- Lead a team developing challenger models to existing credit risk models.
- Provide technical and theoretical guidance on advanced model development practices and quantitative modeling approaches.
- Partner with Credit, Underwriting, Portfolio Management, Enterprise Risk, Capital Markets, Servicing, and Model Validation teams.
- Support model governance, validation, audit, and regulatory activities.
- Drive innovation in modeling methodologies, portfolio surveillance analytics, and AI-enabled model development workflows.
Benefits
- Comprehensive total rewards package
- Competitive compensation
- Market-leading benefit programs
- Eligible to participate in the annual incentive program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
