Champions Funding LLC

Data Scientist

Champions Funding LLC  •  Onsite  •  20 days ago
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Job Description

• Design, develop, and evaluate machine learning, statistical, and predictive models to solve complex business challenges across multiple departments.
• Apply modern artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, including large language models (LLMs), generative AI, and advanced analytics, to automate processes, enhance decision-making, and generate business insights.
• Translate business objectives into well-defined analytical, statistical, and machine learning solutions that deliver measurable business value.
• Analyze large, complex datasets to identify trends, patterns, opportunities, and operational improvements.
• Partner with data engineering, IT, and business teams to develop scalable data pipelines and deploy machine learning models into production environments.
• Evaluate data quality, model performance, and AI system limitations while ensuring responsible, ethical, and practical implementation of predictive models.
• Present analytical findings, recommendations, and technical concepts clearly to executive leadership and both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Develop, monitor, and optimize predictive models, ensuring ongoing performance, accuracy, and reliability through continuous improvement.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, AI advancements, machine learning methodologies, and data science best practices to identify opportunities for innovation.
• Collaborate across departments to support strategic initiatives, business intelligence projects, forecasting, automation, and operational optimization.
• Maintain thorough documentation of models, methodologies, assumptions, and development processes to support transparency, reproducibility, and governance.
• Support ad hoc analytical projects and provide data-driven recommendations that improve business performance and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required in Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or another quantitative discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• Strong technical foundation in statistics, predictive modeling, machine learning algorithms, and programming languages such as Python and SQL.
• Demonstrated experience working with modern AI technologies, including deep learning, large language models (LLMs), generative AI, MLOps, or related machine learning frameworks.
• Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining machine learning models in production environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms and modern data science tools and technologies.
• Ability to evaluate model performance, balance trade-offs between accuracy, interpretability, speed, and risk, and apply sound judgment in ambiguous situations.
• Experience communicating complex technical concepts to business leaders and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience within financial services, mortgage lending, or other highly regulated industries preferred.
• Familiarity with model governance, model risk management, compliance, or regulatory frameworks is a plus.

Champions Funding LLC

About Champions Funding LLC

NMLS ID #2254210 (www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org)

At Champions Funding LLC, we Non-QM all day, every day! In fact, it's our core business and we live to serve the underserved. By empowering the mortgage broker community, we put diversity and inclusion into mortgage lending. We work with brokers who have borrowers with non-traditional credit profiles and cannot get approved with standard financing. Through our highly coveted CDFI designation from the U.S. Dept. of Treasury, we are able to offer our flagship neighborhood products and tap into a $1 Trillion market of historically underserved communities in the country.

By offering modern, flexible, and responsible lending solutions, we strive to make the process smooth and user-friendly with access to our underwriting and support teams.

Headquartered in Gilbert, Arizona, with teams around the country, we're here and ready for your business. Give us a try. Become an approved broker partner today. www.ChampsTPO.com

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Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
201-500 employees
Headquarters
Gilbert, Arizona
Year Founded
2021
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