Strategic Analytics Data Scientist (Hybrid)

Unum Ireland; Carlow; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Paid health insurance

Pension scheme

Annual performance bonus

Parental leave

Job summary

Unum Ireland in Carlow is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to transform data into actionable insights and drive business results. You will design analytical solutions, integrate diverse data sources, and build predictive models while communicating results to leadership.

The role emphasizes ownership, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor’s in a quantitative field, 4+ years of experience, and strong programming (Python/R) and SQL skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field required.
• 4+ years of professional experience or equivalent relevant work experience preferred.
• Core data science capabilities across programming, visualization, statistics, and data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute analytical solutions using optimization, simulation, data mining and other statistical methods for business value.
• Integrate data from Snowflake, DB2, SQL Server, Web API, Teradata for analyses and studies.
• Apply validation, aggregation, and reconciliation to create modeling-ready data.
• Construct and tune predictive models to forecast behavior and identify risk.
• Interpret results and communicate findings to influence leadership decisions.
• Support integration of solutions within existing business processes using automation techniques.
• Understand current statistical methods and tools and apply them.
• Provide mentorship to junior data science peers.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Python

R

Data Visualization

Statistics

Machine Learning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Snowflake

DB2

SQL Server

Teradata

Web API

Job description

Unum Ireland in Carlow is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to transform data into actionable insights and drive business results. You will design analytical solutions, integrate diverse data sources, and build predictive models while communicating results to leadership.

The role emphasizes ownership, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor’s in a quantitative field, 4+ years of experience, and strong programming (Python/R) and SQL skills.