The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc

Portfolio Analytics & Strategy Specialist - Data, Modeling & Analytics

Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field
  • 5+ years of experience in software development and enterprise application design
  • Proficient in Pega-based application development and architecture
  • Familiar with software development lifecycle and large scale implementations
  • Strong analytical and communication skills
  • Working knowledge of SQL, SAS, and Python

Responsibilities

  • Lead application lifecycle management including design, development, and deployment using Pega
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable solutions
  • Enhance risk rating analytics within the Pega Risk Rating Platform
  • Develop and integrate data models and real-time analytics for risk measurement
  • Participate in Agile ceremonies to ensure timely delivery of solutions
  • Conduct testing and provide ongoing support for the RRP application
  • Ensure adherence to Pega guardrails and enterprise architecture guidelines

Benefits

  • Medical and prescription drug coverage with Health Savings Account feature
  • Dental and vision insurance options
  • 401(k) with PNC match and pension plans
  • Educational assistance with select programs fully paid
  • Robust wellness programs with financial incentives
  • Generous paid time off including maternity leave and vacation days
Full Job Description
Position Overview

As a Portfolio Analytics & Strategy Specialist within PNC's Data, Modeling & Analytics Commercial Credit Analytics organization, you will be based in Pittsburgh, PA.

Job Overview:

PNC is seeking a Portfolio Analytics & Strategy Analyst Specialist for the Commercial Credit Analytics team within the Data, Modeling, and Analytics group. This role focuses on supporting the implementation, monitoring, and enhancement of regulatory-compliant quantitative risk models such as PD, LGD, and EAD for wholesale portfolios. These capabilities are delivered through the Pega-based Risk Rating Platform (RRP), which enables end-to-end risk assessment and credit decisioning.

The role is well-suited for professionals with strong experience in Pega-based application development, enterprise architecture, and analytics-driven platform implementations, with the ability to bridge business, risk, and technology domains.

Role Responsibilities:
• Lead and contribute across the full application lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and production deployment, leveraging Pega best practices.
• Partner with Line of Business stakeholders, architects, and SMEs to translate business needs into scalable process flows, UI designs, and case management solutions.
• Drive implementation and enhancement of risk rating and credit analytics functionality within the Pega-based RRP platform, ensuring alignment with regulatory and business requirements.
• Support development and integration of data models, reporting components, and real-time analytics capabilities to enable risk measurement and portfolio insights.
• Participate in and lead Agile ceremonies, including backlog grooming, story creation, and sprint execution to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Ensure solutions adhere to Pega guardrails, performance standards, and enterprise architecture guidelines, including code reviews and optimization strategies.
• Contribute to testing (unit, SIT, UAT, performance) and ongoing platform support, ensuring stability and continuous improvement of the RRP application.

Preferred skills and experience:
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field; 5+ years of professional experience in software development, enterprise application design, and Pega-based solutions.
• Strong experience in Pega development is recommended, with familiarity in application architecture, case management, and enterprise-scale implementations.
• Experience in analysis, requirement gathering, design, software development lifecycle and large scale enterprise application systems.
• Ability to learn complex material quickly, allocate time efficiently; handle multiple projects and deliverables concurrently, while managing competing priorities.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, time management and organizational skills.
• Working knowledge of database programming languages such as SQL, SAS, Python (preferred), etc.

PNC is an in-office company that fosters a supportive culture where employees can thrive and achieve balance. We encourage candidates to connect with their recruiter and hiring manager to understand workplace expectations and ensure the role aligns with their goals.

PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Job Description
  • Provides financial and regulatory reporting and analyses to maintain adequate controls over the financial and regulatory reporting processes. Responsible for running complex business performance, risk and operational analytics. May include the development of analytical methods/models to assess market, credit and/or operational risk of new and existing financial products.
  • Leverages business / product expertise to rigorously analyze large datasets, improve risk adjusted returns, deliver profitable growth, and communicate conclusions. Synthesizes analytical results and develops, recommends, and implements business strategies that improve lending decisions, assist in managing risk, increase revenues, reduce exposure to losses, meet business goals, and improve performance. Establishes baselines for strategies and tracks actual performance to expectations.
  • Applies predictive models, third party data, and other tools to develop and execute appropriate segmentation and targeting for acquisition and portfolio strategies to provide insight into portfolio risk. Manages engagements with internal and external information suppliers ensuring solution is fit for purpose while maintaining appropriate governance and oversight.
  • Works with business, credit, data, and model development partners to design, develop, and monitor test designs and analytical reporting to track and enhance strategies. Designs / enhances standard reporting suites for regular product / portfolio reviews.
  • Collaborates with the line of business, Finance, and Risk partners to assess and establish credit risk appetite and to understand its implications, as well as to establish policies and procedures governing the identification, monitoring, and management of risk appetite.


PNC Employees take pride in our reputation and to continue building upon that we expect our employees to be:
  • Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
  • Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.


Qualifications

Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities for a role. Listed below are skills, competencies, work experience, education, and required certifications/licensures needed to be successful in this position.

Preferred Skills
Analytical Thinking, Credit Risks, Data Analytics, Financial Analysis, Model Development, Operational Risks, Quantitative Models, Risk Appetite

Competencies
Analytical Approach, Banking Products, Big Data Management and Analytics, Business Analytics, Credit Risk, Mathematics of Financial Instruments, Operational Risk, Performance Measurement, Predictive Analytics, Pricing Models and Analytics, Regulatory Environment - Financial Services, Risk Management Banking

Work Experience
Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree, with 5+ years of industry-relevant experience. Specific certifications are often required. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Education
Bachelors

Certifications
No Required Certification(s)

Licenses
No Required License(s)

Benefits

PNC offers a comprehensive range of benefits to help meet your needs now and in the future. Depending on your eligibility, options for full-time employees include: medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature), dental and vision options; employee and spouse/child life insurance; short and long-term disability protection; 401(k) with PNC match, pension and stock purchase plans; dependent care reimbursement account; back-up child/elder care; adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement; educational assistance, including select programs fully paid; a robust wellness program with financial incentives.

In addition, PNC generally provides the following paid time off, depending on your eligibility: maternity and/or parental leave; up to 11 paid holidays each year; 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law; between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.

To learn more about these and other programs, including benefits for full time and part-time employees, visit pncthrive.com.

About The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc

PNC is a financial service company providing bank deposit products and services to its community. The company assets (as of December 31, 2011) of approximately $271.2 billion. PNC operations include a regional banking franchise operating primarily in nineteen states and the District of Columbia with more than 2,700 branches, online and mobile services together with 7,400 ATM machines, specialized financial businesses serving companies and government entities, and asset management and processing businesses.

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1845
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