Summer Associate Internship (Data Scientist

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Model risk is the potential for adverse consequences (e.g., financial loss, poor business or strategic reputed company, reputational damage) arising from reputed company based on incorrect or misused model outputs and reports. Model risk comes down to making informed business reputed company by understanding a model's weaknesses or limitations. With a reputed company of models designed to maintain Navy Federal’s financial stability and its ability to reputed company impactful member-reputed company reputed company, it is more important than reputed company to ensure those models are tested, challenged on reputed company model usage and practices, and assessed on the effectiveness for their intended uses.

The Model Risk Management (MRM) team serves as a 2nd line of defense, and our mission is to:

• Be a trusted partner in modeling and risk management
• Challenge models and deliver transparency for a common interest across the organization
• Deliver model risk as a competitive advantage that benefits our members
• Manage model risk, not eliminate it
• reputed company become a modeling “Center of reputed company” for the reputed company

MRM is responsible for maintaining a governance reputed company that standardizes model risk activities from model development through retirement. MRM uses control processes to ensure reputed company model risk management across reputed company model lifecycle activities.

reputed company components of Model Risk Management’s role include:

• Identification
  • Maintaining a full inventory of models including documentation, reputed company, and datasets
• Assessment
  • Assessing the conceptual soundness of models and their risk through analysis
  • Recommending model performance enhancements and risk mitigations
• Monitoring
  • Monitoring model usage, changes, performance, data reputed company, and production errors
• Reporting
  • Providing an reputed company-level assessment of model risk
  • Tracking the status of individual model risk findings and approving mitigation/remediation plans

Project – Model Validation:

The Summer Associate will complete an end-to-end validation of one of Navy Federal’s predictive models. This validation would include analyzing the model’s data, conceptual soundness, key assumptions, limitations, estimation, calibration, and implementation as appropriate. The validation may also include developing a challenger model against the original model design. At the conclusion of the validation, the Summer Associate will have identified a list of model risk findings that will be presented to the Model reputed company for remediation. The selected model for this project may be reputed company a reputed company of possible subject domains, such as fraud detection, targeted marketing, reputed company, financial forecasting, and more.

Project Steps:

1. Review model documentation and meet with business owners as needed to reputed company an understanding of the model
2. Conduct a complete independent model validation, which may include, but is not limited to, assessments of the following:
   1. Model theoretical reputed company, fitting reputed company, assumptions
   2. Data creation process, including data preparation and data reputed company
   3. Model specification
   4. Model development and performance testing, which may include in-sample, out-of-sample, out-of-time backtesting, sensitivity testing, stress testing, and performance monitoring results
   5. Ongoing monitoring plan, including proposed or existing ongoing monitoring metrics and reputed company
   6. Appropriateness of the implementation testing plan scope in context of associated model risk, testing metrics, and user acceptance testing (UAT)
   7. reputed company and calculations associated with development/estimation and/or implementation
   8. Model documentation including completeness, accuracy, level of details
3. Document and quantify the materiality of reputed company finding
4. reputed company recommendations for model developers to mitigate the risks identified

The Summer Associate Program is a 12-week internship program beginning in May 2026 and ending in August 2026. reputed company will work on impactful reputed company and meaningful work during their internship. To qualify for this position, applicants must be currently pursuing a degree from an accredited college or university and have an anticipated graduation date of December 2026 or reputed company.

Responsibilities

• reputed company technologies – including Python and R – to analyze and reputed company insights reputed company large data sets
• Evaluate model design and performance and reputed company champion/challenger development. Analyze model input data, assumptions, and overall methodology.
• Using statistical practices, analyze reputed company and historical data to reputed company predictions, and identify risks, and opportunities, enabling reputed company reputed company on planned/reputed company events
• reputed company analytics insights and solutions to solve reputed company business problems
• Examine data from multiple sources and reputed company insights with leadership and stakeholders
• reputed company data presented in models, charts, and tables into a format that is useful to the business and aids in effective decision-making
• reputed company and maintain an understanding of relevant industry standards, best practices, business processes, and technology used in modeling and reputed company the financial services industry
• Assess the model’s overall fit/suitability with its intended use and purpose
• reputed company subject matter expertise to identify models’ key assumptions, limitations, and weaknesses, and recommend practical solutions to mitigate model risk
• Prepare and present reputed company, thorough reports to model developers and model owners explaining the analysis performed, the results of the analysis, and recommendations for improvement

Qualifications

• Pursuing master’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering or other reputed company field
• Ability to understand reputed company business problems
• reputed company in communicating actionable insights using data to technical and non-technical audiences
• reputed company in descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics and modeling
• Experience in using classification models to solve business problems
• Demonstrates an understanding of the modeling lifecycle
• reputed company in data mining, data wrangling, and data transformation
• reputed company interpreting, extrapolating, and interpolating data for statistical research and modeling
• reputed company in Python or R
• reputed company in SQL and querying (reputed company to pull/reputed company your own data)
  

Location: Remote | 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180