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Build a brilliant future with Hiscox
 

Position:                     Data Scientist

Reporting to: Data & Analytics Enablement Leader

Location:                    Atlanta

Type:                          Permanent

Band:                          2

As a Data Scientist you will take on a high impact role acting as a critical thinker for Hiscox. You will enjoy applying your core technical skills and innovative thinking to solve complex business problems and identify business opportunity. You will be able to operate in a wide variety of business functions and be able to handle multiple competing priorities; be expected to help the business with evidence-based decisions and provide ad hoc analysis as well as predictive and prescriptive models to build Hiscox data culture. You must be able to successfully operate in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment and communicate business value derived from analytical solutions to key stakeholders.

As a Data Scientist you’ll work as part of a broader technical team whose wide-ranging efforts span multiple business functions; however, you will have a special focus on improving underwriting and bring a multi-disciplinary approach to problem solving and analysis.

This is an ideal role for an individual who is passionate about the use of analytics to influence decisions. You will be expected to conceptualize new ways of doing things, communicate vision simply and effectively to key stakeholders, and see these visions through to implementation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with senior leaders in understanding business strategy and assist in guiding and supporting strategic direction by providing compelling recommendations derived from advanced analytics
• Leveraging industry standards, emerging methodologies and empirical research to develop critical inputs to business information and helping business leaders develop innovative approaches to driving their business.
• Working on the end-to-end data solutions, including understanding complex business challenges, designing scientific solutions, working large and small data sets (including 3rd party and internal data of a wide variety), and using cutting-edge machine learning or statistical modelling techniques to derive insights
• Work collaboratively with data scientists, data engineers and other technical teams and people to help support maturation of analytics practice within the organization.
• Stay updated with the latest trends, technologies, and techniques in data science, and provide thought leadership on their usefulness in advancing the Hiscox US data science capabilities
   

Person Specification:

• Bachelors Degree in a STEM or closely related field.
• 3-4 years of data science, advanced analytics, or a related area of experience.
• Experience of data science in finance, insurance or Ecommerce is an advantage but not required.
• Ability to conduct high quality research in a suitably timely manner working in both independently and in small teams as required by the task.
• Familiarity with version control and other IT delivery tools is required
• A further degree is a plus.

Skills:

• Experience in developing predictive and prescriptive analysis (predictive modelling, machine learning or data mining) used to draw key business insights and clearly articulate findings for target audience.
• Strong experience with analytical tools / programming languages and databases (for example: Python, SQL, GIT, R), capable of bringing models to a production state consumable by non-technical users (so for example familiarity with shiny for R) as well as capable of producing APIs, and working to high standard of code quality including the use of version control and other operational tools.
• Understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of a range of machine learning techniques including simple linear models, random forests and deep learning.
• Familiarity with NLP and machine vision is a significant advantage.
• A strong working understanding of statistical modelling is essential.
• Effective collaboration, teamwork, and leadership skills, with the ability to work in cross-functional and agile teams, as well as independently on analytics projects.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills and effective presentation skills. This is absolutely essential since you will have a lot of exposure to different internal stakeholders.
• Knowledge of insurance is an advantage but not essential.

Salary - $110 - 140,000

Hybrid 2 days per week.

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