Senior Data Scientist

Company

Farm Family specializes in farm and ranch protection with a wide range of products including flexible farm packages, business owner policies, commercial package, workers compensation, commercial auto and select personal auto coverage. Farm Family is a leader in serving the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic markets and is pursuing growth across the U.S. The Farm Family entities are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Clearbrook Group Holdings Inc.

Job Description

PURPOSE OF THE JOB:  

The Senior Data Scientist should be able to work on multiple projects independently and/or collaborate with other team members. The Senior Data Scientist normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work and receives general instructions on new assignments. This position requires the individual to be very analytical, methodical and should have a passion to work with large amounts of data. This position requires the individual to make sure that the analysis and modelling they perform are free from any errors/incorrect inferences.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Prioritizes, scopes and manages data science projects and the corresponding key performance indicators (KPIs) for success.

• Helps to define and communicate governance principles.

• Generates hypotheses about the underlying mechanics of the business process and tests hypotheses using various quantitative methods.

• Applies statistical analysis and visualization techniques to various data, such as hierarchical clustering, T-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE), and principal components analysis (PCA).

• Applies various ML (machine learning) and advanced analytics techniques to perform classification or prediction tasks, Integrate domain knowledge into the ML solution; for example, from an understanding of financial risk, customer journey, quality prediction, sales, marketing. Testing of ML models, such as cross-validation, A/B testing, bias and fairness

• Understands new data sources and process pipelines, and catalogs/documents them, acquires access to various databases, and other source systems such as SQL or graph databases.

• Trains other business and IT staff on basic data science principles and techniques.

• Networks with internal and external partners.

• Promotes collaboration with other data science teams within the organization (if there Is a decentralized data science practice).

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Math or related field.

• Five years of experience as a Data Scientist in a reputed organization.

JOB FAMILY:

Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist

Lead Data Scientist

Salary range is $90,800 - $145,000