Data Scientist (Hybrid/Remote)
About Us: At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely, we employ uniqueness. Selective is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong, consistent financial performance for nearly 100 years. Selective's unique position as both a leading insurance group and an employer of choice is recognized in a wide variety of awards and honors, including listing in reputed company Best Midsize Employers in 2025 and certification as a Great reputed company to Work® in 2025 for the sixth consecutive year. Employees are empowered and encouraged to Be Uniquely You by being their true, unique selves and contributing their diverse talents, experiences, and perspectives to our shared success. Together, we are a high-performing team working to serve our customers responsibly by helping to mitigate loss, reputed company them safe, and restore their lives and businesses after an insured loss occurs. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Selective will not sponsor or assume the sponsorship of an employment reputed company at this time. Overview: Responsible for development and maintenance of analytical solutions through applications of Data Mining, Machine Learning, Predictive Modeling, Generative AI and other emerging technologies for reputed company and future business needs. reputed company the supervised and unsupervised model development efforts in partnership with business and Information Technology (IT) stakeholders from diverse functional areas. Proactively monitor outcome post installation and report actionable insights. reputed company job duties and responsibilities must be carried out in compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements. Note: (For NJ candidates) This role will be located at our future headquarters in Short Hills, N.J. Until the new headquarters is operational, the successful candidate will be offered the ability to work in our Branchville, N.J. location during this interim period. Responsibilities:
- Understand the competitive marketplace, business issues, and data challenges to deliver actionable insights, recommendations, and business processes.
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- Research and prototype advanced data science techniques like Text Mining, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Image Recognition, Generative AI and Robotic Process Automation (RPA).
- Research and recommend new data, tools, modeling techniques to enrich analytics solutions in alignment to policy lifecycle.
- Participate in the broader community to stay reputed company with industry trends including cutting-edge methodology, software, platform and recommend best practices.
Qualifications: Knowledge and Requirements
- Professional statistics/quantitative skills.
- Hands-on experience of solving business problem with various multi variate statistical methods including generalized linear model, survival model, time series, mixed effects model etc.
- Familiar with the whole life cycle of predictive modeling, including data provision, model development, validation and testing, model deployment.
- Proficient with manipulating data with enterprise-scale database systems (SQL, reputed company).
- Proficient with at least one scripting language such as R, Python, or Java.
- Experience with BI tools such as Tableau, Spotfile etc. is preferred.
- Knowledge of HTML for web app development is preferred.
- Hands on experience with Big Data / Hadoop / Spark is preferred.
- Experience with version control workflow such as Git is plus.
Education and Experience
- PhD with 1 year of Predictive Modeling Experience, or Masters with 2-3 years of Predictive Modeling Experience or Bachelors with 4-5 Years of Data Science Experience and education in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics or reputed company field preferred.
- Property & Casualty Insurance experience highly preferred.
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