ID | 2024-3024 | # of Openings Remaining | 1 | Category | Actuarial |
At Legal & General America, we aim to make a positive difference in the lives of our customers, partners, colleagues, and the communities in which they live. As a recognized market leader of term life insurance, we're working to transform our business through innovation and technology to provide products and solutions that help American families secure their financial futures.
Join our dynamic team at Legal & General America, where innovation and passion drive us to exceed expectations. We foster a work-life balance, offer career growth opportunities, and provide a supportive workplace culture that values dedication and hard work.
This is a Senior Data Scientist position that will tackle projects across a variety of departments including Underwriting, Operations, Actuarial and others. Most of the work involves building machine learning models, so you should be experienced in building and evaluating predictive models and you should have experience effectively leading collaborations with other business units, with a proven track record of delivering meaningful and relevant solutions. Your solutions will be deployed to production systems through APIs, so you should be prepared to partner effectively with IT. You should also know how to document your work in a thorough and organized fashion so regulators can clearly understand how you create and test your models. Senior management has a high level of interest in Data Science, so you will periodically need to create presentations that persuasively communicate the value of your solutions, making use of visualization techniques as appropriate.
The overall objective of this position is to support the management of all insurance product lines by creating analytical solutions that are actuarially sound and statistically rigorous, focused on: (1) developing and maintaining the capability to understand and proactively influence the drivers of customer behavior, (2) optimizing the use of data in the risk pricing and underwriting process, (3) designing experiments, testing hypotheses, building models, and conducting advanced data analysis using modern analytical platforms. Most of the coding is done in Python
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What's in it for you?
The expected hiring compensation range for this position is $117,500 - $161,600 annually. This is a remote opportunity with the ability to work from anywhere within the U.S.
The total compensation package for this position may include other elements, such as a sign-on bonus, long term incentives, and annual bonuses. This role is eligible to participate in the Legal & General America Annual Incentive Plan. The current target payment for the position is 20% of base salary, modified for corporate and individual performance. Bonuses are pro-rated based on start date. This role has 20 vacation days and 10 sick days that are accrued on a bi-weekly basis. Employees also have 9 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
We have a competitive compensation and benefits package focused on your overall wellbeing. Employee benefits include health, life, and dental insurance; 401K with company match up to 6% as well as a pension package; generous time off; and wellbeing initiatives throughout the year (we like doing fun stuff). We're big on professional development and we'll support and mentor you in your career progression and expect you to help us pay it forward by helping us develop tomorrow's leaders and growth-focused professionals. We value our teams and our communities and believe in giving back. Enjoy time off to volunteer for those causes that matter most to you!
If hired, employee will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors. The Company reserves the right to change benefits plans at any time.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.