Actuary, Data Science, Global Risk Management &Claims

Amazon • Seattle, WA

9d • Onsite

About The Position

We are expanding our Global Risk Management & Claims team and insurance program support for Amazon’s growing risk portfolio. This role will partner with a wide range of stakeholders to build underwriting and claims models, determine rate and reserve adequacy, build cloud-based modeling tools, and provide other analytical support for financially prudent decision making. As a member of the Global Risk Management team, this role will provide actuarial and data science support for Amazon’s worldwide operation.

Requirements

• 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
• 2+ years of data scientist experience
• 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language
• Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with risk management and claims team to identify insurance gaps, propose solutions, and measure impacts insurance brings to the business
• Develop models for new and existing insurance programs utilizing actuarial and data science techniques in innovative ways
• Build forecasts and analyses for businesses under rapid growth, including trend studies, loss distribution analysis, ILF development, and industry benchmarks
• Create processes to monitor loss cost and trends
• Propose and implement loss prevention initiatives with impact on insurance costs in mind
• Advise underwriting decisions with analysis on exposure risk profile
• Support insurance cost budgeting activities
• Collaborate with external vendors and other internal science teams to extract insurance insight
• Conduct other ad hoc analyses and risk modeling as needed

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level