Job Description

Primary Details
Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Apply scientific principles to business processes and decisions to improve the quality and performance of various business units. Translate the decision-making needs and timeframes of internal business unit stakeholders into data driven, analytically tractable and scientifically provable problems. Apply scientific methods and big data tools to resolve them, sourcing and integrating relevant data, and collaborating with technical and subject matter expert peers as required; and communicate results, findings and recommendations back to business owners within actionable timeframes.Take ownership for technical delivery of projects. Plan and prioritise tasks for self and if required team members across projects and tech debt activities in alignment with direction from Analytics Partners and/or Senior Data Scientists

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop and refine analytical use cases with internal business customers in alignment with Analytics leads and partners.
• Play an active role on projects of diverse scope, range, priority and urgency within the insurance domain
• Translate between business and analytical problems
• Interrogate and interpret data and models to formulate, evaluate and iterate hypotheses quickly
• Integrate, format and present relevant analyses and data visualizations to communicate results, findings and recommendations to business users
• Support Data & Analytics colleagues and business stakeholders as a Machine Learning expert.
• Direct the work of onshore and offshore analytics and data science projects
• Plan own activities for each sprint, accurately estimating effort for stories/tasks
• Optionally, undertake a scrum master role within projects
• Ensure compliance with QBE policies and procedures, and relevant legislation
• Share knowledge and contribute reusable practices and techniques within and beyond the team
• Adopt standard business assets, practices and systems to complete tasks
• Establish and maintain a good working relationship within the team
• Maintain partnerships and working relationships with offshore teams and/or group-wide Data & Analytics team members
• Track benefits delivered to internal customers
• Maintain relationships with business by actively participating in the agile process
• Source, integrate, explore and examine data from multiple sources; discover, analyse and summarize relationships, trends and insights; derive, validate and interpret models and the results of data experiments; and connect these analytic results to cost saving, revenue improvement, and risk reduction business decisions and actions
• Assist in identifying and addressing key business questions, issues and opportunities. Diagnose root causes, by applying analytical and statistical techniques to quantitative data in combination with qualitative knowledge, assumptions and judgments
• Collect new data and refine existing data sources as required
• Contribute to Data & Analytics architectures and reporting, analysis and modelling standards and methodologies.
• Contribute to the development of new descriptive, exploratory, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analyses
• Structure and document the data preparation, management, modelling, visualization and presentation tasks supporting each analysis output
• Work effectively with data scientists, analytics partners, data analysts, and other technical specialists
• Contribute to an inclusive environment that supports knowledge sharing and sharing diverse ideas
• Take ownership of career development
• Take an interest in industry standards and practices to stay on top of the latest trends, tools and policy

Required Experience

• N/A

Preferred Competencies/Skills

• Ability to distil and abstract complex problems into appropriate data-driven / machine learning analogy.
• Ability to engage with senior team members and business stakeholders and clearly articulate findings.
• Ability to support the development of architectural prototypes that integrate machine learning with complex and fluid IT systems.
• Advanced data visualization skills (e.g. PowerBI, ggplot, plotly)
• Inquisitive, with a passion for business improvement and empirical analysis
• Intermediate to advanced programming skills (particularly in R, Python)

Preferred Education Specifics

• Bachelor to Master\'s Degree in Quantitative field (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics or related disciplines.)

Preferred Experience

• Experience in producing meaningful insights from large structured and unstructured datasets.
• Analytics experience using modern data science tools such as R, Python, Spark.
• Experience working collaboratively on programming projects.
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment.
• Bachelor to Master\'s Degree in Quantitative field (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics or related disciplines.)

Preferred Knowledge

• Detailed knowledge of state of the art statistical and machine learning techniques and their business applications.
• Working knowledge of IT and Cluster technologies such as: Vagrant, Puppet, docker, Mesos, Jenkins.
• Intermediate knowledge of relational databases such as: SQL, Hive, Pig.
• Understanding of experimental design techniques and their associated limitations.
• Working knowledge of probability theory and the applications of Bayes theorem.

QBE Cultural DNA

• Everything we do at QBE is underpinned by our DNA (which interlinks seven cultural elements) - because we know it\'s not just what we do that matters, it\'s how we do it that makes the difference. We expect all employees to role model and inspire the right behaviours that link to our cultural elements:
• We are customer-focused
• We are technical experts
• We are inclusive
• We are fast-paced
• We are courageous
• We are accountable
• We are a team
• All employees are expected to adhere to QBE\'s Code of Ethics and Conduct and apply sound risk management practices

US Only - Disclaimer

• To successfully perform this job, the individual must be able to perform each essential job responsibility satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential job responsibilities.

Australia/New Zealand Only - Advice/Non-Advice

• Non-Advice: This role is not authorised to provide financial product advice to retail customers in respect of General Insurance products. Financial product advice, means a statement or recommendation made to a retail customer with the intention of influencing their decision in considering a general insurance product.

Global Disclaimer

• The duties listed in this job description do not limit the assignment of work. They are not to be construed as a complete list of the duties normally to be performed in the position or those occasionally assigned outside an employee\'s normal duties. Our Group Code of Ethics and Conduct addresses the responsibilities we all have at QBE to our company, to each other and to our customers, suppliers, communities and governments. It provides clear guidance to help us to make good judgement calls.

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.

Job ID 316842