Senior Decision Scientist - Remote Insurance Analytics

Farmers Group Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 118,119 - 144,368; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus opportunity

401(k) plan

Medical, vision, and health savings

Job summary

Farmers New World Life Insurance in Bellevue, WA seeks a Senior Associate Decision Scientist to provide critical decision support through data analysis and modeling. The role involves building models, exploring data, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive business outcomes.

Requires a Master’s in Analytics or related field and 2+ years in data analysis or data science within life/insurance contexts. Proficiency in AWS, Sagemaker, Python, R and visualization tools is expected.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Analytics or related field.
• Experience with data analysis and statistical modeling in life or related insurance domains.

Responsibilities

• Applies mathematical, statistical techniques to solve medium-scale business problems that impact strategies.
• Builds descriptive or explanatory models or uses models from others.
• Uses data visualization tools and statistical techniques to uncover insights.
• Conducts basic exploratory data analysis to test hypotheses and validate findings with business partners.
• Integrates disparate datasets to create cohesive datasets for analysis.
• Performs data quality checks and collaborates on data validation.
• Collaborates with cross-functional partners to understand complex objectives.
• Influences solution strategies using business knowledge.
• Provides insights to support decision-making.
• Coordinates with IT, data scientists, data engineers to ensure data integrity and optimize pipelines.
• Identifies data quality issues and helps resolve them.
• Assists deployment and monitoring of basic predictive models in workflows.
• Keeps informed about emerging data science methodologies and best practices.
• Continues learning to improve performance and team objectives.
• Bridges data science and operational R&D for customized software development.

Skills

Statistical analysis

Quantitative reasoning

Data visualization

Education

Master’s degree in Business Analytics or related field

Tools

AWS

SageMaker

S3

Python

R

QGIS

Google Earth Pro

Job description

Farmers New World Life Insurance in Bellevue, WA seeks a Senior Associate Decision Scientist to provide critical decision support through data analysis and modeling. The role involves building models, exploring data, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive business outcomes.

Requires a Master’s in Analytics or related field and 2+ years in data analysis or data science within life/insurance contexts. Proficiency in AWS, Sagemaker, Python, R and visualization tools is expected.