APAC Data Scientist - Risk Insights & Production Analytics

ZURICH INSURANCE COMPANY LTD (Singapore Branch); Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd (Singapore Branch) is seeking a Data Scientist to lead the development of distinctive analytical and risk insights that improve business results and customer experience using advanced data science techniques on complex datasets.

You will collaborate with business stakeholders, manage data architecture, and drive end-to-end solutions from problem definition to production delivery, enabling measurable benefits and improvements across processes and products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in related fields and/or more years of experience in data science.
• Led and implemented data science use cases and delivered measurable benefits.
• Advanced knowledge of statistical and predictive modelling techniques such as machine learning, decision trees, probability networks, clustering, neural networks
• Minimum 1 year hands-on experience in unstructured data, including natural language processing, images recognition, OCR, voice to text etc
• Experience in deploying solutions in production (Azure, AWS)
• Expert user in Python, and data wrangling packages.
• Familiar with MLOps, API Development (FastAPI,..)
• Experience with AI Agents Observability & Performance Monitoring: reporting on key performance metrics to maintain reliability and optimize outcomes.
• Data science experience in similar industry (e.g. insurance, financial services) preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead discussion with the business stakeholders from better defining the problem and best suitable solution, up to building and delivering end-to-end solutions, and ensuring successful delivery of benefits in production to improve customer engagement, business processes and product enhancements
• Establishes, maintains, and grows strong collaborative relationships with key internal and external partners; leverages relationships to drive ongoing improvements to the data and data architecture.
• Play an active role in generating distinctive analytical and risk insights for the most complex and/or strategic business challenges and opportunities, including synthesizing insights into compelling ideas and messages.
• Lead and own the technical architecture of the data platform in production, and drive processes and system improvement to enhance performance, and optimize costs.
• Drives the development of next-generation, market-leading, analytic techniques to build the capabilities of the Data Science Center of Excellence for APAC

Skills

Bachelor’s degree

Data science use cases

Machine learning

Predictive modelling

Unstructured data

NLP

Azure/AWS

Python

MLOps/API development

AI agents observability

Insurance/financial services domain

Education

Bachelor's degree in related fields

Tools

FastAPI

Data wrangling tools

Job description

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd (Singapore Branch) is seeking a Data Scientist to lead the development of distinctive analytical and risk insights that improve business results and customer experience using advanced data science techniques on complex datasets.

You will collaborate with business stakeholders, manage data architecture, and drive end-to-end solutions from problem definition to production delivery, enabling measurable benefits and improvements across processes and products.