Principal, Actuarial Modernization

Encova Insurance•Columbus, OH

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join Encova Insurance as a Principal, Actuarial & Analytics Methods & Modernization helping shape the future of actuarial and analytical excellence across the organization. This role is focused on advancing actuarial capabilities through innovation, modernization, governance, and continuous improvement, while partnering with teams to drive meaningful business impact. The ideal candidate brings deep Property & Casualty actuarial expertise, strong technical acumen, and a passion for transforming ideas into practical solutions. This is a hybrid role based in our Columbus, Ohio office, with days in office each week. Candidates must reside within a reasonable commuting distance of the Columbus office. Encova is only able to employ associates who reside and work within specific U.S. states. Our current policies are based on the laws in states in which we are registered for payroll. Our current footprint includes: Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin. The Principal, Actuarial & Analytics Methods & Modernization position serves as an internal center of excellence and consulting resource across the Actuarial & Analytics organization, with a clear mandate to both shape direction and execute. This role is responsible for researching, developing, building, testing, and implementing modern actuarial methods, tools, templates, and governance practices that help teams progress while balancing ongoing production demands. The position plays a critical role in modernizing actuarial practices, strengthening governance and documentation, and translating new ideas into implemented, scalable solutions. The role operates as a service and delivery function, enabling functional teams while ownership of day-to-day production and outcomes remains with those teams. This role requires a combination of actuarial credibility, hands-on technical capability, and change leadership, with a bias toward execution and tangible impact.

Requirements

Deep Property & Casualty actuarial experience required.
Minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible actuarial experience across multiple functional areas (e.g., pricing, reserving, analytics, modeling, or governance).
Broad understanding of actuarial methods and insurance operations, with the ability to quickly gain working knowledge across functions.
Candidate must have B.A. or B.S. with major in mathematics, statistics, economics, or computer science.
Other majors may be acceptable depending on mathematics background.
Strong documentation skills, with the ability to explain complex actuarial concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives in parallel.

Nice To Haves

ACAS/FCAS strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Act as the Actuarial & Analytics Center of Excellence, providing both thought leadership and hands-on execution support across pricing, reserving, analytics, data, and related functions.
Research and evaluate emerging actuarial techniques, analytical methods, software platforms, and industry best practices, and assess their applicability and value to the organization.
Design, build, test, and help deploy new actuarial methodologies, models, tools, and templates, working collaboratively with impacted teams to ensure solutions are usable, scalable, and adopted.
Serve as an enablement and consulting resource to functional teams, strengthening capability and consistency while not owning day-to-day production responsibilities.
Lead Actuarial and Analytics governance efforts, including methodology standards, documentation, review processes, and alignment with internal, regulatory, and professional expectations.
Operate through influence rather than authority, leveraging dotted-line relationships with Actuarial and Analytics leaders while prioritizing work through alignment with the SVP, Actuarial & Analytics.
Maintain strong actuarial and technical credibility, remaining current on actuarial standards, analytical techniques, and economic developments, and selectively advancing innovations that provide clear, tangible value.
Perform other duties and special projects as assigned in support of departmental and enterprise objectives.