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Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist

CompanyGuidewire
LocationSan Mateo, CA, USA
Salary$116000 – $212000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesMaster’s, PhD
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • PhD or MS degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or similar quantitative disciplines.
  • Mastery in developing and maintaining end-to-end data and modeling pipelines using AWS Glue, Airflow, and Sagemaker.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and fluency in data manipulation (SQL, pandas, pyspark) and Machine Learning (Scikit-learn, statsmodel, XGBoost and etc) tools.
  • Experience working with AWS (or similar) tools/services like Athena, S3, EC2, Redshift, etc.
  • 5+ years of experience in statistical data analysis, feature engineering, predictive modeling, and data visualization
  • 3+ years of P&C (Property & Casualty) Industry experience
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way.
  • A positive attitude and a growth mindset.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, calibrate, validate, and deploy for production cyber risk models for the (re)insurance and financial services markets.
  • Develop and implement methodologies to quantify the financial impact of cyber risk on single entities as well as large insured portfolios.
  • Develop and implement tools to effectively visualize the potential impact of cyber events.
  • Explore different data sources to come up with features and assumptions to enhance our set of probabilistic risk models.
  • Integrating/automating modeling processes in our production pipeline to feed our platform.
  • Define and implement a globally consistent best practice process for data validation, feature selection, and modeling of catastrophe exposures.
  • Champion best practices to design and extend a rapid and flexible modeling framework.
  • Communicate results to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Engage and collaborate directly with clients on a deep technical level.
  • Collaborate with other leaders across the Analytics organization, including Product Management, Engineering, and Client Engagement.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in catastrophe modeling is a plus!