Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. USI Insurance Services is one of the largest insurance brokerage and consulting firms in the world, known for its dynamic culture and commitment to employee development. The Sr Data Engineer will deliver insights, predictive models, and analytical tools to business leaders, mentor other data scientists, and support the implementation of impactful data science solutions across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Work with line of business and product leaders to assess needs, define opportunities, and research solutions. Learn underlying systems and workflows to understand the business domain
- Participate in cross-functional teams. Prioritize and complete projects in an efficient and effective manner
- Communicate results to business leaders and non-technical stakeholders. Provide insights through data visualizations. Share progress within cross functional teams to ensure team deliverables are met
- Follow best practices on documenting work. Includes code reuse, peer review and knowledge sharing
- Provide technical guidance and peer review to other team members
- May have direct or indirect management of other data scientists on the team. Provide oversight on data science projects. Includes analytical approach, adoption of internal best practices, interpretation of results, and communication to stakeholders
- Research and implement methodologies to address business objectives. Design, document, and execute experiments as projects. Write up concise results and conclusions. Utilize advanced statistics, modeling, and algorithms to create predictive models and creative analyses. Design performance metrics for monitoring models and code that are put into production
- Lead and perform data extraction, cleansing, and wrangling on diverse data sets from internal and external sources
- Work with IT department to implement data science code into production applications
- Travel to internal and external meetings as needed (10-20%)
- Operate in accordance with USI Policies for the Information Security Program (PISP) and USI Standards for the Information Security Program (SISP)
- Keep up to date with security updates and improvements. Implement improvements as appropriate
- Protect systems against unauthorized access by appropriately defining access
Skills
- 5 years + experience in data-science related field required
- Bachelor's degree computer science, statistics, or related field required
- 3 years + practical experience with Python, ETL, data processing, SQL and data analytics
- 2 years + experience working in an agile/scrum project framework
- Understanding of various data structures and common ETL methods/languages used in data transformation
- Strong analytical and analysis skills
- Ability to manage multiple and rapidly changing, high visibility priorities and projects
- Proven ability to manage expectations and outcomes with business leaders
- 1 year + experience managing people in a data science or data analytics role preferred
- Working knowledge of insurance brokerage or sales workflows and systems an asset
- Experience with Microsoft Azure capabilities a plus
Benefits
- Competitive pay, incentives, and benefits
- Summit Awards program, rewarding excellence
- Employee programs that recognize outstanding achievement and help our associates lead healthy, productive lives
- Award-winning wellness program
- College scholarships for associates' children
- Financial help in times of need
- Health, welfare and financial benefits including medical, wellness, dental and vision
- 401(k)
- Flexible spending and health savings accounts
- Short and long-term disability
- Life insurance and other unique employer-sponsored and voluntary programs
- Generous paid time off policy
- Paid family leave benefit
- Paid holiday time
- Bonus eligible position with a target incentive of 10%
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