Senior Data Scientist

iShare Inc

Senior Data Scientist

Chicago, IL
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Title:

    Senior Data Scientist

    Location:

    Chicago, IL (Hybrid – occasional client site visits)

    Experience Required:

    7–12 years

    Compensation:

    $140K–$160K USD

    Job Type:

    Full-Time

    Position Overview:

    We are seeking a hands-on Senior Data Scientist to join our Insurance Analytics & AI team. The ideal candidate will bring a blend of insurance domain expertise (preferably P&C), a consulting mindset, and strong data science skills. This is a mid-senior level role focused on delivering value through analytics, stakeholder engagement, and logical problem solving.

    Responsibilities:

    Design and deliver data-driven solutions across reporting, analytics, and transformation initiatives

    Apply statistical methods, machine learning, deep learning, and NLP techniques to solve business problems

    Support insurance-focused analytics use cases (P&C preferred)

    Conduct requirement gathering and communicate insights to senior stakeholders

    Ensure data quality, governance, and compliance with data privacy guidelines

    Independently research, analyze, and present client-ready deliverables

    Contribute to continuous improvement and support business development activities

    Qualifications:

    Bachelor’s/Master's degree in Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science/Engineering, Operations Research, or related fields

    7–12 years of experience in analytics, reporting, dashboarding, ETL, Python/R

    Proficiency in ML, DL algorithms, and NLP techniques (e.g., NLTK, Gensim, LDA, Word2Vec, FastText, GloVe)

    Strong consulting background with stakeholder management skills

    Excellent communication and presentation abilities

    Experience with Python, R, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Informatica, Hadoop/Spark

    Exposure to AWS and cloud data management (preferred)

    Prior insurance industry experience (P&C preferred)

    Flexible work from home options available.