Senior Data Scientist

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October 15

🌵 Arizona – Remote

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

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🌵 Arizona – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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Independence Pet Group

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Insurance • B2C • Wellness

Independence Pet Group is one of North America’s largest pet insurance and services organizations. The company supports insurance for more than 800,000 pets in the U. S. and Canada, with a mission to strengthen the bond between pets and their owners through innovative products and services. IPG offers a comprehensive range of underwriting options, turnkey partner solutions, and consumer-facing insurance products to support pets throughout their lives. The company is home to several insurance brands, providing vital support and services in the pet care industry.

1001 - 5000 employees

👥 B2C

🧘 Wellness

📋 Description

• Design and implement data pipelines for collecting, processing, and integrating structured and unstructured data from multiple sources, including internal databases and external data providers. • Perform root cause analysis and utilize complex SQL queries to investigate data issues such as data inconsistencies, missing data, and errors. • Collaborate with data engineers, data analysts, and other stakeholders as needed. • Ensure data accuracy and integrity by conducting data audits and creating reconciliation processes. • Database management, including data cleansing, formatting, banding, pre-analysis and integration of data. • Conduct exploratory data analysis to understand the relationship between data elements and insurance processes such as pricing, conversion, and retention. • Develop rating plans using predictive models to optimize risk segmentation across a portfolio of products while balancing strengths and weaknesses of each model to the subject product. • Use advanced statistical techniques to identify key drivers of sales and retention and create/maintain models to forecast expected results. • Create and maintain dashboard visualizations in Power BI and Radar to monitor key metrics such as rate levels, risk segmentation, and retention. • Collaborate with stakeholders across the company and communicate findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences through reports, presentations, and visualizations. • Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in data science and actuarial science to drive continuous improvement and innovation. • Establish best practices across the data science workflow, including but not limited to data preparation, modeling, and documentation. • Serve as the data science subject matter expert and enrich predictive modeling knowledge and functional capabilities across the actuarial department.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Science, or a related field with relevant work experience • Otherwise, Master’s degree or higher preferred. • 5+ years of experience in a data science role, preferable in the insurance industry (P&C or A&H). • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, or SQL, with experience in data manipulation and statistical analysis. • Experience with SQL Server and/or Snowflake/Databricks. • Familiarity with data warehousing concepts and tools. • Experience with WTW’s Radar suite, including Radar Base and Emblem. • Experience using data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, or similar) • Solid understanding of statistical techniques including GLMs, with the ability to build models and interpret results. • Familiarity with a broad range of statistical techniques, such as regression modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, GLMs, mixed effects models, gradient boosting, random forests, neural networks, ensemble modeling and time series forecasting. • Strong oral and written communication skills. • Ability to work efficiently on multiple projects with strong prioritization skills. • Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team in a fast-paced environment. • Excellent problem-solving skills, critical thinking abilities, and attention to detail.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive full medical, dental and vision Insurance • Basic Life Insurance at no cost to the employee • Company paid short-term and long-term disability • 12 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave • Health Savings Account (HSA) • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) • Retirement savings plan • Personal Paid Time Off • Paid holidays and company-wide Wellness Day off • Paid time off to volunteer at nonprofit organizations • Pet friendly office environment • Commuter Benefits • Group Pet Insurance • On the job training and skills development • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)