Senior Data Scientist, Underwriting AI & GenAI Leader

Manulife; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Manulife Lead Data Scientist – Underwriting leads regional AI, ML, and GenAI initiatives to transform underwriting decisions across Asia, combining deep technical leadership with business partnering.

You will lead and grow a team of data scientists focused on underwriting AI while shaping advanced predictive, prescriptive, and generative solutions. Collaboration with underwriting, risk, tech, and regional stakeholders is essential to deliver measurable impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in AI, machine learning, or advanced analytics within financial services or related industries.
• Strong underwriting, insurance, or reinsurance domain knowledge (highly preferred).
• Proven experience leading complex analytics initiatives in highly regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of AI, ML, and Generative AI solutions for underwriting use cases.
• Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing data science team focused on underwriting AI and analytics.
• Drive adoption of AI solutions by embedding them into end-to-end underwriting workflows with governance and regulatory compliance.

Skills

AI/ML leadership

GenAI

Underwriting analytics

Stakeholder management

Cloud platforms

Tools

Python

SQL

Azure

Databricks

Hadoop

Job description

Manulife Lead Data Scientist – Underwriting leads regional AI, ML, and GenAI initiatives to transform underwriting decisions across Asia, combining deep technical leadership with business partnering.

You will lead and grow a team of data scientists focused on underwriting AI while shaping advanced predictive, prescriptive, and generative solutions. Collaboration with underwriting, risk, tech, and regional stakeholders is essential to deliver measurable impact.