Data Scientist Senior Consultant – Remote

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

Job Description

This role is responsible for leading the use of data and advanced analytics to drive decisions within Auto Claims. This includes: the development, execution, and management of new machine learning predictive modeling algorithms, the coding/development of tools that use machine learning/predictive modeling to make business decisions, searching for and integrating new data (structure and unstructured, internal and external) that improves our modeling and machine learning results (and ultimately our decisions), and discovery of solutions to business problems that can be solved through the use of machine learning/predictive modeling. This role will also manage projects of medium complexity. The role will begin to provide some mentoring and development support to help develop junior data scientists.

Key Responsibilities

• Uses best practices to develop complex statistical, machine learning techniques to build models that address business needs and to improve the accuracy of our data and data-driven decisions.
• Reviews, evaluates and communicates appropriateness of modeling techniques and results to team, leadership and stakeholders to ensure these are well understood and incorporated into business processes.
• Collaborates with the team and works on data and complex business problems in order to improve the effectiveness of business decisions and business results through designing, building, and partnering to implement machines. learning/predictive models. Understands the business' problems to identify the optimal modeling and/or analytic approach.
• Innovates by researching, evaluating, and applying emerging modeling techniques and technologies to improve business outcomes.
• Utilizes effective project planning techniques to break down moderately complex and occasionally complex machine learning/predictive modeling and/or development projects into tasks and ensure deadlines are kept.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 3 or more years of experience as a Data Scientist.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Travel

• Ability to travel up to 10% to regional office for team meetings.

This position is not available for California, Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, or Puerto Rico residents.

Skills

Compensation

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

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