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Associate Data Scientist
Zurich Insurance Group
Chicago, IL, United States
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Zurich (Schaumburg, IL) seeks a Data Scientist to apply advanced analytical techniques to complex data sets in order to develop distinctive analytical and risk insights that deliver improvements in business results.
Specific responsibilities include: understand and structure business challenges and opportunities for insight generation; generate hypotheses, from a broad range of sources and functions; scan a broad spectrum of internal/external, structured/unstructured data sources to define the optimal data set for testing the hypotheses; test and validate hypotheses to deliver improved business results; support synthesizing distinctive analytical and risk insights into compelling ideas and messages; improve analytic techniques for generating insights; support preparation of internal/external, structured/unstructured data sets to build/rebuild/refresh predictive models; establish and maintain collaborative relationships across the organization; utilize established financial systems to track budgets and highlight variances (either internal or within vendor contracts); develop simple business cases for defined projects using IT expertise, to determine potential benefits, clarify the rationale for investment and support the planning process; research best practice and review and analyze detailed business models to support senior management in improving IT processes and systems; act as technical expert in a specific process or product area, conduct process reviews and initiate change in order to contribute to continuous improvement of services to internal customers; provide specialist advice to address specific technical queries from internal clients and design/develop and deliver appropriate solutions; contribute to the delivery of assigned IT projects for specific lines of business, collaborate with IT colleagues as an approach for project/program management; solve internal customer issues or escalate appropriately to manager, internal partners or external vendors; record and report core metrics, and ensure internal partners and vendors meet defined policies/SLAs (service level agreements) on information management; work with colleagues across the IT function to ensure plans are aligned to functional DR&BC plans and policy. Position requires occasional travel within the U.S. Must be willing to work extended hours during peak periods.
Position requires a bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or related quantitative field plus 2 years of experience in the job offered or as Manager-Business Analytics, or similar position. Specific experience must include 2 years of experience with each of the following: modeling using generalized linear models or machine learning; constructing modeling files with dataset inputs that are large (1 million+); identifying and evaluating external data sources to support predictive models; converting business ideas into objective, testable hypotheses; getting models into production; and working with one of the following programming languages: Python, SAS, or R. Position requires occasional travel within the U.S.. Must be willing to work extended hours during peak periods.
Full time position. Apply by submitting your resumes at Zurich.com/en/careers, Job ID: 1800005R4