EMC Insurance Companies is among the top 60 insurance organizations in the country based on net written premium, and they are seeking a Data Scientist II. The role involves creating innovative data science solutions, analyzing business needs, and translating analytical results into actionable business insights.
Under general guidance, creates innovative data science solutions
Analyzes business partners’ needs and gathers structured and/or unstructured data to create a modeling dataset, including cleaning and pre-processing data
Designs and builds appropriate solutions (e.g. neural network, predictive model, mapping solution, data analysis, and visualizations)
Discovers business insights using statistical analysis, algorithmic processing, data science, machine learning, data mining, and/or reporting visualization techniques as determined through individual analysis of the problem
Translates analytical results into business meaning and presents ideas to business areas to address and resolve their problems
Guides business partners through business problem identification and discovery, and potential solutions
Gathers detailed information regarding specific business issues, needs, business processes impacted, and how the business unit intends to use the tools or solutions developed and translates those to detailed project requirements
Develops documentation throughout the entire analytic life cycle of each project
Qualification
Required
Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science, or related field and two years of experience in data science
Master’s degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science, or related field and one year of experience in data science
Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science, or related field and Certified Specialist in Predictive Analytics (CSPA) designation and one year of experience in data science
Strong knowledge of data analysis tools and techniques, such as GLMs, decision trees, GBMs, random forests, boosting, bagging, neural networks, further statistical analysis, machine learning, or deep learning techniques
Strong knowledge of programming within R, Python, SQL, Hadoop, and other data visualization tools
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to translate technical ideas into more general terms for business customers
Strong analytical, investigation, and problem-solving abilities
Preferred
Prior experience in property and casualty insurance
Benefit
EMC Insurance Companies is among the top 60 insurance organizations in the country based on net written premium, and we have more than 2,500 employees.
