Remote Senior Data Scientist — Insurance Analytics & ML

Placements24; Kimberley; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Retirement savings plan

Fully remote with flexible schedule

Professional growth opportunities

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Data Scientist with expertise in insurance analytics to work remotely. You will develop predictive models for pricing, risk, churn, and fraud, and lead cross-functional analytics projects with actuaries, underwriters, and product managers.

You will leverage large datasets, design experiments, and present insights to stakeholders. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in data science within insurance and strong ML, ML libraries, and SQL skills.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in a quantitative field required.
• 5+ years of professional data science experience in insurance analytics.
• Proficient in statistical modelling, ML techniques, and deep learning.
• Proficient in Python or R and libraries such as scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
• Strong SQL skills for data extraction and manipulation.
• Experience with Spark or Hadoop is a plus.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement advanced statistical models and ML algorithms for insurance analytics.
• Analyze large datasets to identify trends and drivers in insurance markets.
• Build models for risk, pricing, churn, and fraud detection.
• Design and run experiments and A/B tests to evaluate features.
• Collaborate with actuaries, underwriters, and product managers to translate business problems into analytics.
• Present insights clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Create dashboards and visualizations to communicate model performance.
• Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to team growth.
• Stay updated with latest data science and insurance analytics.

Skills

Statistical modelling

Machine learning

Python or R

SQL

Big data analytics

Communication skills

Remote collaboration

Education

Master's or Ph.D. in Data Science / Statistics / CS / Mathematics

Tools

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Spark

Hadoop

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Data Scientist with expertise in insurance analytics to work remotely. You will develop predictive models for pricing, risk, churn, and fraud, and lead cross-functional analytics projects with actuaries, underwriters, and product managers.

You will leverage large datasets, design experiments, and present insights to stakeholders. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in data science within insurance and strong ML, ML libraries, and SQL skills.