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Verisk Insurance Solutions

Manager - Data Scientist

Description:

If you’re looking for a career that transforms, inspires, challenges, and rewards you, then come join us! Verisk Analytics is a global supplier of risk assessment services and decision analytics for customers in a variety of markets, including insurance, healthcare, financial services, supply chain, and others. We’re a thriving public company with solid revenue growth and earnings and offices worldwide. And we’re continually looking for ways to augment our existing markets and expand into new markets with excellent growth potential. At Verisk, you’ll be part of an organization that’s committed to serving the long-term interests of our stakeholders, including the communities where we operate.

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Our Claims Analytics business is seeking an experienced Manager – Data Scientist to serve as the lead technical resource in the conception and development of new predictive modeling initiatives. *Candidates could work out of either Jersey City, NJ, Lehi, UT, San Francisco, North Reading, MA or Columbia, SC office.

Responsibilities

  • Mentor and train junior level analysts
  • Manage multiple projects or work streams through all the cycles of the analytical continuum of descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics.
  • Act as the resident subject matter expert in developing innovative analytic methods that result in a technically superior product and/or create a competitive advantage, as well as creating design requirements and project timeline
  • Act as the resident subject matter expert in developing innovative analytic methods that result in a technically superior product and/or create a competitive advantage, as well as creating design requirements and project timeline
  • Lead research, evaluation, and recommendation of internal and external data sources and coordinate with data resources
  • Serve as an enterprise innovation leader on data munging, variable creation, variable transformation, etc., as well as best-practices in the creation of analytic datasets
  • Serve as the leader in model development and validation analyses – from driving pragmatic practice of methods to devising novel solutions and diagnostic measures, to coaching and mentoring junior staff
  • Lead the development and execution of methods to address needed business diagnostics; review, and aid productization and deployment
  • Provide significant input to senior leadership team and Product Management on process improvement, implementation specifications and production testing
  • Act as a leader to develop process and metrics to monitor model performance
  • Review reports and make recommendations for needed model refits / enhancements Provide significant input to Senior Management Team and Product Management on implementation specifications and production testing
  • Manages staff including goal setting, performance evaluation, effective resource allocation and career/skill development, hiring and training
  • Research literature to stay current on technical methods to solve specific problems

Requirements

  • Graduate degree (M.S. required, Ph.D. preferred) in a quantitative discipline
  • 6+ years professional experience building predictive and descriptive models
  • Exposure to the property & casualty industry is highly desirable, and experience with medical, clinical, fraud & abuse and pharmacy data analytics is a plus
  • Prior people management experience is a must
  • Ability to lead complex projects from model design to deployment
  • Extensive experience working with large datasets
  • Knowledge, experience, and expertise in diverse statistical and data mining techniques (e.g. – GLM/Regression, Boosting, Random Forest, Trees, Clustering, PCA, SVM, text mining, social network analysis etc.)
  • Ability to program and review code in Python, Spark, Scala, R, or SAS is highly desirable
  • Experience with Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Hive, NoSQL, etc., and Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, etc.) is highly desirable

We offer an excellent compensation package. Our benefits package is competitive and includes full healthcare options, a 401(k) plan, and a generous Paid-Time-Off program.

All members of the Verisk Analytics Family of Companies are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected classification.

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Location: CA-San Francisco, MA-North Reading, NJ-Jersey City, SC-Columbia, UT-Lehi

Activation Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Expiration Date: Monday, May 1, 2017

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Job ID: bc32bb4e3d525a14088cb2daad309694
Employment Type: Other

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