Senior Insurance Data Scientist: ML, AI & MLOps

Motion Recruitment; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

PTO

401(k) with company match

Profit Sharing

Life Insurance

STD

LTD

FSA

HSA

Wellness programs

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking an experienced Data Scientist in Insurance & Advanced Analytics to design, deploy, and optimize advanced analytical solutions. You will work with stakeholders, technology teams, and leadership to deliver measurable business value and shape the company's analytical capabilities.

Ideal candidates bring deep technical expertise in predictive modeling and ML, plus strong insurance knowledge.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field.
• 8+ years of experience or a Master's with 2+ years.
• Property & Casualty Insurance experience.
• Strong predictive modeling, ML, and statistical analysis.
• Advanced Python and SQL proficiency.
• Experience with high-dimensional, sparse, and time-series data.
• Model deployment, monitoring, and production management.
• Strong communication with senior stakeholders.
• Proven ability to solve complex problems independently.
• Experience mentoring team members and promoting analytics best practices.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and deployment of predictive models and ML solutions.
• Analyze complex datasets to uncover actionable insights.
• Build data pipelines, engineer features, and automate workflows with Python and SQL.
• Investigate data quality issues and implement corrective solutions.
• Define success metrics and measure business impact of analytics initiatives.
• Design and implement model monitoring frameworks for reliability and performance.
• Develop internal tools to support model deployment, retraining, and scaling.
• Collaborate with teams to operationalize analytics solutions.
• Present findings and recommendations to leadership.
• Research new modeling approaches, AI tech, and data sources.
• Support Generative AI and agent-based workflows.
• Create technical docs and executive presentations.
• Mentor junior analysts and data scientists.
• Partner with data governance to enhance data quality.

Skills

Predictive modeling

Machine learning

Statistical analysis

Python

SQL

Communication

Independent problem solving

Team mentoring

Project management

Production model deployment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics / Mathematics / Data Science / Economics / Finance / Engineering

Master's degree with 2+ years relevant experience

Tools

MLOps

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking an experienced Data Scientist in Insurance & Advanced Analytics to design, deploy, and optimize advanced analytical solutions. You will work with stakeholders, technology teams, and leadership to deliver measurable business value and shape the company's analytical capabilities.

Ideal candidates bring deep technical expertise in predictive modeling and ML, plus strong insurance knowledge.