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Data Scientist in Commercial Insurance

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd, organizačná zložka

Place of work
Bratislava, Slovak Republic (Job with occasional home office)
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
3 500 EUR/monthMinimal guaranteed bottom limit. Final salary offer depends on your experience and requirements.

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties


Are you a motivated, hands-on, and innovative person, interested in working for one of the largest global insurers? Are you interested in solving complex business challenges? Then this job is definitely something for you.
We are looking for a Data Scientist to join the global Commercial Insurance Underwriting team.

Candidates from Ukraine are encouraged to apply. 

As a Data Scientist, your main responsibilities will involve: 
  • Working on high impact projects with end-to-end responsibility for their success
  • Generating insights from internal and external data sources, using a wide range of tools and methodologies, e.g., from building complex data pipelines to applying Semantics and/or Machine Learning
  • Analyzing business problems independently and assess right technology approach of how to solve them
  • Implementing proof of concepts and full-scale solutions 
  • Building models translating insight into action
  • Presenting findings to project members and senior stakeholders
  • Coordinating directly with application users globally (with particular focus on adoption)
  • Experimenting with new analytical techniques and capabilities  

Employee perks, benefits


Working time benefits
Personal days off, Concentrated work week, Additional vacation, Home office, Extra days off at occasion of childbirth, Sabbatical leave

Monetary benefits
Life insurance from Zurich Austria, Compensation for salary loss during sick leave, 3rd pension pillar contribution, Risk Life Insurance, Meal contribution on top of the legally required minimum, Years of service bonus, Wedding bonus, Baby bonus

Other benefits
Edenred electronic cafeteria, Public Transport contribution, Maternity leave benefits, Company and team events

Learning/Development
Professional Certifications, Online Education Portals, Extensive Onboarding program, Strengths based culture (GALLUP)

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Bachelor's degree)

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Number of years of experience

3

Personality requirements and skills


As a Data Scientist, your skills and experience will ideally include:  
  • Can-do attitude, with a clear focus on the end product and user experience
  • Passion to tackle real business problems and persistency to follow through with your recommendations
  • Experience in model development; in particular, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
  • Experience in text classification, entity extraction, clustering & topic modeling
  • Strong experience with R, Python, SQL, Spark/Scala
  • Some experience with building pipelines on large/complex datasets
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Good team player
  • Excellent written and spoken English, other European languages are a plus 
  • Experience with web-scraping is a plus
  • Prior project management experience is a plus 
  • Prior work experience in (re)-insurance not required, but a plus
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Azure, in particular, Databricks, is a plus

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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: 4397894  Dátum zverejnenia: 8.8.2022  Pracovná ponuka je prevzatá z inej stránky alebo zdroja. Základná zložka mzdy (brutto): 3 500 EUR/month