Actuarial Data Scientist

Aetna

(New York, New York)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About Aetna
Aetna is a diversified health care benefits companies, providing individuals, employers, health care professionals, producers, and others with innovative benefits, products, and services. It is serving an estimated 46.7 million people with information and resources to help them make better decisions about their health care.
Summary
This position will be responsible for protecting Aetna’s financial integrity to support decision making in Reserving by leveraging advanced statistical predictive modeling to evaluate scenarios and make predictions on future outcomes. Analyzes very large data sets in real time databases and develops and implements mathematical approaches. This is a unique opportunity to develop new approaches in Actuarial Reserving leveraging the latest cutting-edge “big data” technologies. The candidate will leverage their actuarial experience to assist Data Scientists in developing new algorithmic models and tools for Reserving and Pricing. They will provide strategic leadership for the development, validation and delivery of algorithms, statistical models and reporting tools in actuarial Reserving and Pricing. Acts as the analytic team lead for highly complex projects involving multiple resources and tasks, providing individual mentoring in support of company objectives.
Responsibilities
* Leads development and execution of new and/or highly complex algorithms and statistical predictive models and determines analytical approaches and modeling techniques to evaluate Reserving and Pricing scenarios and potential future outcomes. * Establishes analytical rigor and statistical methods to analyze large amounts of data, using advanced statistical techniques and mathematical analyses. Methods will be implemented in Hadoop and R using advanced technologies. * Motivates team members and probes into technical details, and mentors others to do the same. * Provides leadership and direction for analytic solutions, tools and studies. * Anticipates and solves strategic and high risk business problems with broad impact on the business area by applying leading-edge theories and techniques to investigate problems, detect patterns and recommend solutions. * Provides guidance to develop enterprise-wide analytics strategy and roadmap. * Interacts with internal and external peers and management to share highly complex information/solutions related to areas of expertise and/or to gain acceptance of new or enhanced technology/ business solutions.
Ideal Candidate
**Background/Experience** * 8 or more years of actuarial experience demonstrating increased responsibilities with at least 2 years in Reserving. * Experience in SQL and another programming language. * Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and negotiate across the business and in the external health care environment. * Demonstrated ability to communicate technical ideas and results to non-technical clients in written and verbal form. * Comprehensive knowledge of health care industry, products, systems, business strategies and products. * Experience in predictive modeling preferred but not required. * Strong organizational, management and leadership skills. * Excellent analytical and problem solving skills. **Education** * ASA or FSA and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries preferred. * Master’s degree preferred.
Compensation and Working Conditions
Benefits Benefits included

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