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Job#: 3037670
Job Description:
Senior Data Scientist
Location: Remote in US working CST hours
Duration: 12 month contract w/extension
Role Overview
The Senior Data Scientist will design and implement machine learning and NLP solutions for a claims and incident mitigation analytics project. This role will help risk management teams identify high-risk incidents earlier, classify claims by likely severity and financial impact, and provide explainable insights that support faster intervention. This position will also involve transforming business objectives into data-driven solutions to optimize decisions, improve operations, and enhance customer experiences.
Key Responsibilities

• Translate risk management business requirements into well-defined data science solutions, including incident prioritization and claim severity classification.
• Profile, clean, and prepare claims and incident data for analytics, modeling, and scoring.
• Develop feature engineering logic using structured and unstructured claims and incident data.
• Apply NLP and text-processing techniques to claim and incident narratives to extract useful risk signals.
• Develop record-linkage approaches to connect incidents and claims when a unique identifier is not available.
• Build and validate models that rank incidents by likelihood of becoming claims or requiring Risk Management intervention.
• Build and validate claim severity models that classify claims by likely financial impact and high-dollar claim risk.
• Collaborate with Risk Management, Legal, Data Engineering, BI, Data Governance, and MLOps partners to deliver usable business outputs.
• Monitor model performance, drift, scoring quality, and retraining needs.
• Document modeling assumptions, feature logic, validation results, and limitations.
• Present findings, model results, and recommendations to business and technical stakeholders in a clear, actionable manner.

Required Qualifications
Education: Master's degree in computer science, statistics, industrial engineering, or a related field is required; a PhD is preferred.
Experience: 5+ years of experience in data science, operations research, or a related area (2+ years for candidates with a PhD).
Technical Skills:

• Expertise in operations research modeling (LP, IP, MIP) and tools such as CPLEX or Gurobi.
• Expertise in building machine learning models, including supervised, unsupervised, and deep learning methods.
• Expertise in feature engineering, model evaluation, and hyperparameter tuning.
• Expertise in Python, SQL, and Spark, and a broad array of machine learning frameworks (Scikit-Learn, XGBoost, Tensorflow, PyTorch, MXNet, LLM).
• Experience developing and deploying solutions in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) with large datasets.
• Experience with streaming data architectures.
• Experience operating in an Agile environment.
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD concepts.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to hospitality, travel, or service industry data and optimization use cases.
• A strong understanding of data architecture and MLOps best practices.
• Proven ability to translate complex analytics into business impact.
• A passion for continuous learning and innovation in applied data science.

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