Data Scientist

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd, organizačná zložka

Place of work
Bratislava
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
1 400 EUR/monthFinal salary offer depends on your experience and requirements.

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Our opportunity

Zurich is looking for a Data Scientist to join the Data & Analytics team supporting Zurich North America business.

Data & Analytics at Zurich encompass data science, analytics, dashboards and data visualizations as well as data as a business asset. We work on cutting-edge analytics models based on a variety of statistical, data mining and machine learning approaches to deliver distinctive risk insights across a broad scope of topics, to achieve ongoing financial business impact.

Our main focus is to improve underwriting decisions by quantifying the risk, identifying potential customers and prioritize based on potential profitability and improve the assignments in the claim handling process.

A unique opportunity for you to solve business challenges by applying variety of analytic techniques to complex data sets.

As a Data Scientist, you will:
• Understand business problems and structure analytical approaches to solve them
• Prepare data sets (internal and external, structured as well as unstructured) needed to test hypotheses and build models
• Generate distinctive risk insights that deliver improved business results
• Build predictive models and other analytical solutions using NLP, image recognition, GLMs, decision trees, clustering, etc. and implement them
• Monitor performance of models in production and help assess their business impact by building monitoring apps
• Work with end users and maintain collaborative relationships throughout the organization
• Commit to continuous education and personal development by sharing technical knowledge with team members and business partners

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Master's degree)

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

Requirements and skills:

• University education (Master's degree).
• Experience with programming and data tools such as R, Python or SQL.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, especially the ability to translate technical results for business audiences in a clear and concise manner.
• Experience preparing data and/or developing insights for use in business decisions.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Enthusiasm to understand and apply commonly used machine learning techniques and integrate them in a pipeline to load, explore, prepare and model data, and evaluate results.
• Willing to grow in insurance business domain.
• English – Upper intermediate (B2 or better), spoken and written.

The position is suitable for a candidate with 1 - 3 years of experience. Fresh graduates with passion for data are also encouraged to apply.

Advertiser

Brief description of the company

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd is a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in global and local markets. With about 55,000 employees, it provides a wide range of property and casualty, and life insurance products and services in more than 215 countries and territories. Zurich’s customers include individuals, small businesses, and mid-sized and large companies, as well as multinational corporations. Zurich Bratislava is a Slovakia-based Competence Center for highly specialized services in the areas of Life and non-life actuarial, risk management, business intelligence, IT application development and service management as well as insurance network. An international workforce of close to 300 colleagues is supporting Zurich’s Corporate Center and Business Units around the globe.

Number of employees

250-499 employees
ID: 3996443  Dátum zverejnenia: 6.11.2020  Pracovná ponuka je prevzatá z inej stránky alebo zdroja. Základná zložka mzdy (brutto): 1 400 EUR/month