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Head of Data Science

Employer
Star Actuarial Futures
Location
London
Salary
£ excellent package
Closing date
10 Dec 2021
Reference
Star7177

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Sector
IT, Life insurance, Other
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Experience/Function
Qualified, Other

Job Details

Major insurer has a unique opportunity for a data science specialist to play a leading role in the development and design of the departmental vision, capabilities, infrastructure, and quarterly/annual roadmap for the launch of data science capabilities across the life business.

In this fantastic career opportunity, you will scope, designs and implement machine learning models to support the numerous initiatives of the business and demonstrate the impact to the bottom line of the business.

You will also be responsible for managing live models (monitoring MLOps and model performance) and taking the initiative to refit and calibrate to latest experience to continue to deliver optimal business value.

In addition, you will work closely with other Data and Analytics Teams, inclusive of data warehousing and data engineering teams, in creating big data applications through the utilisation of structured and unstructured data, designing optimal data architecture, and experimenting on new machine learning techniques.

Highly skilled in statistical, modelling and scripting programming languages such as Python and R, or similar, as well as visualisation packages, the successful candidate will be an expert in data management programming such as SQL.

With a vast experience and expertise of working with probability and statistics, inclusive of machine learning, experimental design, and optimisation, you will also possess experience using Gradient Boosting Machines, Random Forest, Neural Network or similar algorithms.

This role will suit someone with experience working as a Data Scientist or Quantitative / Statistical Analyst. An actuarial qualification would be desirable.

Please contact us to discuss this vacancy or for an informal discussion regarding your career goals. We are very happy to perform bespoke research on your behalf.

Jo Frankham, Partner

M: +44 (0)7950 419115

E: jo.frankham@staractuarial.com

Company

We are award-winning experts in actuarial recruitment. We are actuaries and recruitment specialists based in the UK with a global reach. We offer market-leading career advice and recruitment solutions that are tailored to your needs. 

Our honest approach to recruitment and our market expertise have delivered great results within the actuarial market and we are proud to work with a wide range of leading actuarial employers and candidates.

We provide our clients with the talent they need to realise their business strategy and to date have helped over 200 actuarial employers fill their vacancies. We want to work closely with our clients and our greatest success story to date is having made over 50 placements with several clients.

We are experienced in filling vacancies from graduate to Chief Actuary level with permanent packages ranging from £20,000 p.a. to over £300,000 p.a. Our clients include Asset Managers, Insurers, Mutuals, Consultancies, Banks, Brokers and Syndicates.

Our consultants are based throughout the UK, recruit for permanent and interim positions in all sectors of the actuarial market in the UK and overseas and offer a consultancy service on a contingency, retained or search basis.

We continually strive to be the best in the market and with that in mind we only employ high quality recruitment consultants or actuaries directly from industry. Our consultants have over 85 years' experience in technical actuarial roles across insurance, pensions, investment and healthcare. As a result, our understanding of the actuarial market and of actuarial vacancies is based on first-hand experience, industry leading connections and up-to-date market knowledge.

Read more about us and search our jobs at www.staractuarial.com

 

Company info
Website
Telephone
+442033931880
Location
6 London Street
New London House
London
London
EC3R 7LP
GB

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