Selective Insurance · 1 day ago
Data Scientist (Hybrid/Remote)
Charlotte, NC
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$97K/yr - $146K/yr
2+ years expSelective Insurance is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a strong history of financial performance. The Data Scientist will be responsible for developing and maintaining analytical solutions using data mining, machine learning, and predictive modeling to meet business needs and provide actionable insights.
FinanceFinancial ServicesInsurance
No H1B
Responsibilities
Understand the competitive marketplace, business issues, and data challenges to deliver actionable insights, recommendations, and business processes
Manipulate high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources to highlight patterns, anomalies, relationships, and trends
Perform descriptive and diagnostics analysis to provide actionable insights for a range of business customers via effective visualization
Perform prescriptive analysis seeking for statistical inference providing information that will drive strategic decision making related to marketing, claims and underwriting
Develop predictive models and machine learning solutions to investigate problems, detect patterns and recommend solutions. Work with Information Technology to integrate the model into production environment
Perform model maintenance and post installation monitoring, including performance tracking, model refit/refresh, documentation, and version control
Research and prototype advanced data science techniques like Text Mining, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Image Recognition, Generative AI and Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Research and recommend new data, tools, modeling techniques to enrich analytics solutions in alignment to policy lifecycle
Participate in the broader community to stay current with industry trends including cutting-edge methodology, software, platform and recommend best practices
Qualification
Required
Professional statistics/quantitative skills
Hands-on experience of solving business problem with various multi variate statistical methods including generalized linear model, survival model, time series, mixed effects model etc
Familiar with the whole life cycle of predictive modeling, including data provision, model development, validation and testing, model deployment
Proficient with manipulating data with enterprise-scale database systems (SQL, SAS)
Proficient with at least one scripting language such as R, Python, or Java
PhD with 1 year of Predictive Modeling Experience, or Masters with 2-3 years of Predictive Modeling Experience or Bachelors with 4-5 Years of Data Science Experience and education in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics or related field
Preferred
Experience with BI tools such as Tableau, Spotfile etc
Knowledge of HTML for web app development
Hands on experience with Big Data / Hadoop / Spark
Property & Casualty Insurance experience
Benefits
Comprehensive health care plans
Retirement savings plan with company match
Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Program
Tuition assistance and reimbursement programs
20 days of paid time off
Company
Selective Insurance
At Selective, we maintain a commitment to provide unique insurance solutions that help keep the families and businesses of our communities protected.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$400M2025-02-25Post Ipo Debt· $400M
1978-01-13IPO
Leadership Team
John Marchioni
President and CEO
Patrick S. Brennan
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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