Director of Data Science — Underwriting & AI

Sun Life; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 153,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Sun Life U.S. is seeking a Director of Data Science to lead an analytics squad within Business Analytics. You will advance machine learning and AI capabilities to improve underwriting, pricing, and related business decisions across Sun Life US group businesses.

Reporting to the AVP, Business Analytics, you will build and mentor a team of data scientists, establish best practices, and ensure reliable, explainable solutions with governance and human oversight.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in data science, modeling, deployment, and monitoring.
• Experience in underwriting, pricing, risk decisions.
• Commitment to data governance and responsible AI.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytics solution development for underwriting and pricing.
• Maintain a roadmap of high-value use cases.
• Translate business problems into analytics requirements, success measures, and adoption plans.
• Evaluate opportunities to improve processes with data while ensuring human oversight.
• Partner with Underwriting, Actuarial, Product, Distribution, Finance, and Technology to deliver scalable solutions.
• Apply data science, ML, and AI to ensure accurate, explainable results.
• Drive adoption with training, feedback, and change management.
• Manage and develop a team of data scientists.
• Monitor performance, data quality, model behavior, and outcomes to identify enhancements.
• Communicate risks, recommendations, and business impact to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Python

SQL

Snowflake

Dataiku

Machine learning

AI

Data visualization

Stakeholder management

Education

BS/MS/PhD in a statistical/technical field

Tools

Dataiku

Snowflake

Python

Job description

Sun Life U.S. is seeking a Director of Data Science to lead an analytics squad within Business Analytics. You will advance machine learning and AI capabilities to improve underwriting, pricing, and related business decisions across Sun Life US group businesses.

Reporting to the AVP, Business Analytics, you will build and mentor a team of data scientists, establish best practices, and ensure reliable, explainable solutions with governance and human oversight.