Senior Data Scientist

Job Summary

To support a claims and incident mitigation analytics project, the full-time Senior Data Scientist will design and implement machine learning and NLP solutions remotely on a 4-month contract basis.

Key responsibilities

• Translate risk management business requirements into data science solutions for incident prioritization and claim severity classification
• Profile, clean, and prepare claims and incident data for analytics, modeling, and scoring
• Develop and validate models that rank incidents by likelihood of becoming claims and classify claims by financial impact

Required qualifications

• Strong experience building supervised machine learning models, particularly classification and risk scoring models
• Proficient in Python and SQL, with experience in data profiling, cleaning, and feature engineering
• Experience with NLP or text analytics, including narrative cleaning and text classification
• Familiarity with probabilistic record linkage and enterprise data warehouse platforms like Snowflake
• Master's degree in a relevant field preferred, or a Bachelor's degree with strong relevant experience