Director, Data Science - AI for Underwriting

Sun Life

Kansas City (MO)

On-site

USD 153,000 - 230,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Vacation and sick time

401(k) matching

Competitive salary

Discretionary annual incentive

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Sun Life US is seeking a Director of Data Science to lead an analytics squad within Business Analytics. You will steer advanced analytics initiatives using ML/AI to improve underwriting, pricing, and related decisions across group businesses.

Build and mentor a team, establish best practices, ensure explainability, and partner with governance to sustain value and adoption. You will collaborate with Underwriting, Actuarial, Product, and Technology to deploy scalable, compliant solutions and

Qualifications

Strong programming and data environment skills (Python/SQL).
Expertise in data science: conditioning, modeling, deployment, monitoring.
Solid foundation in statistics, ML, and analytics fundamentals.
Experience turning analytics into business-ready insights and decisions.
Experience applying analytics to underwriting, pricing, risk/portfolio decisions.

Responsibilities

Lead analytics solution development for underwriting, pricing and decision processes.
Maintain a prioritized roadmap of high-value use cases aligned with strategy.
Translate business problems into analytics product requirements and adoption plans.
Evaluate opportunities to improve processes with data-driven insights while ensuring human oversight.
Partner with Underwriting, Actuarial, Product, Distribution, Finance, Technology and governance teams.