About the position
At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families. Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful. The Opportunity About the Team Data wins. At USAA, we're building a high-performance Data, Analytics, Monitoring & Tools (DAMT) program embedded within our P&C Underwriting and Product Development organization — and we need the talent to make it happen. The DAMT team is modernizing how we deploy models, enable pricing decisions, and re-architect the data and tooling ecosystem that powers our Pricing & Underwriting factory. This is not a back-office function, and it is not a finished one. We are in build mode — the problems are real, the path isn't always clear, and the teammates around you matter as much as the tools in your hands. If ambiguity energizes you, collaboration is your default, and you do your best work when the answer isn't obvious, this is your team. Position Summary Leads and develops a highly analytical staff that provides decision support for business areas across the association. As a strategic partner to the business, this leader will stand up and scale a systematized analytics and decision-support factory that connects data, models, tooling, and business processes into a repeatable delivery engine. We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Colorado Springs, CO, Charlotte, NC, Chesapeake, VA or Tampa, FL. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
Responsibilities
- As a strategic partner, leads or collaborates with other analytical leaders in executing the strategic direction of the business using mathematical and statistical techniques and/or innovative/quantitative analytical approaches.
- Develops team reputation as highly skilled experts in the area of decision science support.
- Oversees and coordinates analytical tasks which include the evaluation of the business problem, analytical methodology, validation, documentation and presentation of findings and recommendations.
- Monitors, understands and adopts emerging technology that can affect the application of scientific methodologies and/or quantitative analytical approaches to problem resolutions.
- Identifies additional resource needs ranging from IT investments, 3rd party support or additional analysts and provides business rationale and justification for additional needs.
- Understands the business direction, environment and strategies, to set the analytic direction and creates strategy to execute the approach that will influence business and drive change.
- Leads the effort and/or partners with analytics teams to build USAA core analytics capabilities and processes.
- Builds and oversees a team of employees for assigned functional area through ongoing execution of recruiting, development, retention, coaching and support, performance management, and managerial activities.
- Assigns and or Serves as a mentor for mathematical skills and statistical techniques and guides teams to use the appropriate approaches, to drive fact-based decision-making.
- Maintains and innovates knowledge of data analysis tools, data visualization, developing analysis queries and procedures in SQL, SAS, BI tools or other analysis software, and relevant industry data & methods and ability to connect external insights to business problems.
- Researches and pursues the latest and/or industry leading practices in data and analytics, (Ex: Cloud, Data Mining, Python, Neural Networks, Sensor data, IoT, Streaming/NRT data) to advance the overall DSA community knowledge.
- Identifies opportunities to continue to learn in the data and analytics space, whether informal (e.g., Coursera, Udemy, Kaggle, Code Up, etc.) or formal (e.g.Certifications or advanced coursework).
- Works with IT/CTO partners to advance new data and platforms that correspond to evolving skill sets.
- Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in quantitative analytics field such as Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Sciences, Operations Research, Data and/or Business Analysis, Data Science or other quantitative discipline; OR 4 years of related experience in statistics, mathematics or quantitative analytics (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
- 8 years of experience in a decision support analytic function OR Advanced degree in r