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Senior Data Scientist II
Company | QBE Insurance |
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Location | Madison, WI, USA |
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Salary | $96000 – $180000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in insurance data analytics, preferably within the Property & Casualty domain, with a strong understanding of underwriting, claims, and pricing workflows.
- Hands-on experience developing pricing models using statistical, actuarial, or machine learning techniques to support rate-making, segmentation, and profitability analysis.
- Participation in cross-functional initiatives, demonstrating strong collaborative skills and business acumen.
- Strong communication skills, with a track record of presenting technical findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proficiency in Python.
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related discipline.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop advanced insurance pricing models using statistical and machine learning techniques to support strategic pricing decisions and revenue optimization.
- Perform ongoing model validation to ensure robustness, accuracy, and compliance with internal and regulatory standards.
- Monitor model performance over time, identifying drift, degradation, or anomalies, and implement corrective actions as needed.
- Build and deploy analytics solutions that address complex business challenges, leveraging large-scale datasets to generate actionable insights.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including actuarial, underwriting, and product to align modeling efforts with business goals.
- Communicate findings and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders through presentations, dashboards, and reports.
- Document model development processes, assumptions, and validation results to ensure transparency and reproducibility.
- Take initiative to support broader team goals and perform additional tasks as needed to drive business success.
- Demonstrate strong teamwork and collaboration, actively contributing to a positive and inclusive team culture.
- Represent the organization professionally in all interactions with internal and external stakeholders.
- Stay current with industry trends in insurance pricing, data analytics, and machine learning to continuously improve modeling approaches.
Preferred Qualifications
- Solid understanding of actuarial ratemaking principles, including exposure rating, loss cost modeling, and rate adequacy analysis.
- Proficiency in PySpark for distributed data processing and pipeline development.
- Experience with SQL for querying and manipulating large-scale structured datasets.
- Experience with cloud-based analytics environments.
- Experience working with actuarial teams or in a blended actuarial/data science environment.
- Progress toward the Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society (ACAS) designation.