AVP, Lead Data Scientist

Chubb’s North America Data and Analytics Division is currently seeking an experienced Lead Data Scientist with 7+ years of industry experience to join our fast-paced, high-energy team. As a Lead Data Scientist for NA PC Analytics, you will perform quantitative data analysis to enable organizational decision making and develop solutions to complex business problems and create value to the business. This position offers exposure to a wide variety of analytics tools and technologies as well as unique challenges in problem-solving.
In this role, you will:

•    Provide leadership and oversight to project teams creating advanced statistical models, including commercial insurance pricing models.  
•    Synthesize data to uncover inherent trends, assess impact of data on business usage, and to make recommendations for improvement
•    Research, recommend, and implement statistical and other mathematical methodologies appropriate for the given business problem
•    Builds and deploys generalize linear models in support of our pricing modeling efforts for business lines such as homeowners, property, and casualty
•    Performs data validation and exploratory data analyses
•    Communicates analytical goals, approach, outcomes, and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences
•    Translate analytical findings into relevant business insights
•    Collaborate with business partners and peers within the organization to understand and scope the problem, gather business requirements, and develop robust model solutions that drive improvement in key business metrics
•    Effectively communicate with key stakeholders (both technical and non-technical) in written, oral and presentation formats
•    Create/Maintain excellent working relationships with business partners across the Chubb organization including Field, Product, Operations, IT and analytics peer groups.
•    Lead teams of junior data scientists and engineers and provide guidance and mentorship directly and indirectly
 

Required:
o    Superb programming experience in Python
o    Excellent ML modeling skills
o    Advanced understanding of predictive and prescriptive analytics and data visualization.
o    Strong leadership skills to provide guidance and direction to project teams.
o    Data manipulation and feature engineering
o    Exploratory data analysis and model development and solution design
o    Programming experience in SQL.
o    Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences in written, oral and presentation formats.
o    The ability to multi-task, learn new things quickly, and demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills.
o    A/B testing experience for quality engineering
o    GLM (Generalized Linear Modeling) 

Preferred:
o    Prior insurance and/or financial services experience.
o    Working knowledge/familiarity with Git version control.
o    Experience in architecting and consuming APIs at scale.
o    Hands-on experience with big data technologies and cloud (Databricks / Spark, Azure/AWS/GCP/Snowflake).
o    Advanced knowledge of model tuning, evaluation, and operationalization.
 

Education:
•    The candidate should have 7+ years of industry experience in data science and analytics.  Graduate degrees in a technical field such as Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Bioinformatics, Physics, Mathematics, Economics or Engineering are preferred.

Location:

• •    We are open to the following work locations for this position: (Philadelphia, PA - Jersey City, NJ - Whitehouse Station, NJ - New York, NY - Simsbury, CT). 
• •    Please note, there will be limited expected travel to various work locations for in person collaboration and meetings.

Chubb is a world leader in insurance. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance, and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling expertise and local operations globally.

At Chubb, we are committed to equal employment opportunity and compliance with all laws and regulations pertaining to it. Our policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other conditions or opportunities of employment, without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, mental and physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, age, and pregnancy or any other characteristic protected by law. Performance and qualifications are the only basis upon which we hire, assign, promote, compensate, develop and retain employees. Chubb prohibits all unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation against any individual who reports discrimination or harassment.