Telework permitted, CopperPoint Insurance Company (Phoenix, AZ) seeks a Data Science Consultant II to lead and contribute to the development of modeling infrastructure and models for various business functions, such as underwriting/risk selection, pricing/actuarial, finance/capital modeling, and claims.
Job responsibilities:- Perform analyses of structured and unstructured data to solve complex business problems, utilizing advanced statistical techniques and mathematical analyses, with minimal oversight and guidance from leadership.
- Evaluate, assess, and recommend data sources and collection methods for complex analytic needs.
- Collect, query, cleanse, and explore data.
- Perform ongoing monitoring and training of models implemented in the business to assess and optimize value.
- Use data visualization to effectively communicate analytical results and support business decisions.
- Document projects including business objectives, data gathering and processing, test scenarios, and detailed set of results and analytical metrics.
- Develop test plans and scenarios and perform testing necessary to validate quality of models being developed; perform root cause analysis of defects encountered.
- Create and maintain detailed data and model inventory; and collaborate with Information Technology partners to define solution integration with scoring engines and business systems.
Qualifications/Competencies:- Bachelor's degree in data science, information management, computer science, mathematics, statistics, or a related field.
- Three years of relevant experience; understanding of analytical and statistical methods such as exploratory data analysis, causal analysis, predictive analysis, descriptive statistics, and inferential statistics.
- Experience with analytical software such as R, Python, SAS, SQL, or equivalent.
- Programming skills in Python, R, Java, SQL, or equivalent.
- Insurance industry experience, including property & casualty or workers' compensation.
- Understanding of catastrophe models and related actuarial methods.
- Knowledge of processes and data involved in operational, analytic, and reporting functions of a property & casualty insurance company
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills required.
Benefits:- Employees and their families are eligible to participate in CopperPoint Insurance Companies benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, a health savings account, a flexible spending account, and a 401k plan.
- We provide some benefits at no cost to the employee (Basic Life Insurance and AD&D at two times an employee's annual salary, Short- and Long-term Disability coverage, and Employee Assistant Plan).
- Employees will accrue 0.0846 hours of Paid Time Off (PTO) per paid hour, which may total 22 days a year. In addition, employees will also receive 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
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