Senior Data Scientist

Chicago, IL, United States

What part will you play? If you're looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you've found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you'll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We're always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs.

Join us and play your part in something special!

A Senior Data Scientist is responsible for helping the Analytics Team Lead develop the project plan and execute on project tasks. A Senior Data Scientist has the following roles and responsibilities:

Consultant : Provide expertise, knowledge, and insight to help the business improve their performance and grow by solving problems and finding new and better ways of doing things. Serve as a catalyst for change.

Own development of requirements, development of project artifacts and overall plans for specific project efforts

Lead meetings with key stakeholders and keeps them up-to-date with project progress

Support Team Lead in development of SOW, project communications and presentation materials

Identify potential risks or gaps in implementation strategies

Interpret root problem that stakeholder is trying to solve and recommends best course of action

Support activities to develop new project opportunities

Analyst : Understands business needs and provides relevant information and insight to support functional objectives. Analyzes variables to identify trends, opportunities, issues and risks, and/or probable solutions to problems/situations for specific business areas. Execute, or lead execution, of defined solution

Own process of validating analysis and ensuring results support excepted solution

Recommend and support use of statistically sound processes and procedures

Assess results from various angles and considers alternate interpretations

Operator : Executes on a plan of action within the expected timeframe and delivers expected results. Demonstrates commitment, responsiveness, and competence to the business and team. Support Team Lead in development of the project plan

Take ownership in the identification and execution of tasks required by the project plan

Support Team Lead in creation of project deliverables

Committed to setting and meeting deadlines for project and those involved on the projects; drive towards completion during stated timeframe

Clearly communicate intent and results to both the team and the business

Effectively develop visualizations that support roll-out of technical solutions

Provide realistic timelines for project completion and communicates risks to those timelines to lead and stakeholders

Provide suggestions around data-related process improvement. Examples include data pipeline management, ideas for improvements to the data lake, consistency in coding standards

Active participant in Project Management

Technical Expert : Maintains up-to-date knowledge in area of expertise through proactive research and continuing education so as to achieve functional objectives. Advanced coding skillset in R &/or Python

Ability to read in text files or csv, as well as sourcing data directly from relational databases

Proficient with SQL query development

Implement business rules, create analytical models, modify existing models, produce summary stats on data

Demonstrate ability to execute API calls

Take ownership over feature engineering & handling null values

High level of comfort in utilizing supervised and unsupervised learning techniques

Demonstrate abilities to scrape or access unstructured data

Ability to tell stories through visualizations

Own/Drive modeling process and life cycle

Challenge methods and model types used; assess strongest result given business need

Develop plan for moving created solution to production

Take ownership of work product and personal development

Mentor : Acts as a leader within the department by directing activities, promote successes, improve upon failures, and build competency through-out the department. Develops team members to build upon strengths and decrease weaknesses in individual performance, and maintaining positive team dynamics. Leads specific project efforts

Acts as a mentor to other project team members

Contribute to a positive work environment

Assist in building unity across team

US Work Authorization required. Markel does not provide visa sponsorship for this position, now or in the future.

Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE - MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

We're all about people | We win together | We strive for better

We enjoy the everyday | We think further

What's in it for you:

In keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work. We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees' needs at all stages of life.

All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance.

We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and floating holidays, parental leave.

Markel offers hybrid working schedules of 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.

Are you ready to play your part?

Choose 'Apply Now' to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

The base salary offered for the successful candidate will be based on compensable factors such as job-relevant education, job-relevant experience, training, licensure, demonstrated competencies, geographic location, and other factors.

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