Senior Data Scientist

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3 Locations
In-Office
Senior level
Insurance • Software
The Role
The Senior Data Scientist will develop machine learning applications, perform advanced analytics, and partner with teams to improve data quality and deliver insights.
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WHO WE ARE:

Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value – and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders.

Zinnia is disrupting the insurance industry by delivering innovative technology-driven experiences. We are advancing our tech capabilities and learning to leverage our hordes of data to develop innovative data applications. We are relentless in our drive to reliably deliver outstanding products at scale. We are growing fast, and we can go further faster with experienced, collaborative, challenge-seeking analytics leaders like yourself.

Our data team serves Zinnia through data engineering, data analysis and data science. Our goal is to help uncover opportunities and make decisions with data. We partner with all department stakeholders across the company to develop deeper predictors of behavior, develop insights that drive business strategy and build solutions to optimize our internal and external experiences.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

  • Work in a dynamic and innovative company to develop cutting-edge solutions.
  • Perform advanced data analytics to influence decision makers.
  • Leverage data from diverse sources to provide insights and build new data driven tools.
  • Partner with engineering teams to continuously improve our data quality.
  • Develop machine learning based applications using supervised and unsupervised models using Python that optimize and personalize customer experiences or reduce manual effort on our internal teams through automated decision making.
  • Develop and support models to enable things such as prescriptive insights, automated decisioning, and insights.
  • Develop experiments to understand model impact, monitor live model analytics, and manage training and retraining pipelines.
  • Partner with data engineering to take your model from development to deployed infrastructure.
  • Brainstorm future use cases and contribute to the learning culture of the data science team.
  • Partner with and mentor other data scientists and data analysts.
  • Partner with multiple marketing teams, manage multiple projects and help conceptualize applications that directly drive company growth and strategy. 
  • You will connect machine learning applications to business needs and help facilitate process changes based on algorithmic solution implementation.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

  • You have Data Science experience building and validating machine learning and forecasting models in Python for a minimum of 5 years.
  • You love performing advanced analytics to find insights and patterns.
  • You have experience in supervised and unsupervised model techniques such as random forest, gradient boosting, support vector machines, k-means and hierarchical clustering, causal models, mixture models and experience in advanced modeling techniques such as reinforcement learning, neural networks, and natural language modeling.
  • You have experience in delivering natural language projects utilizing techniques such as text summarization, topic modeling, entity extraction, semantic encoding, and valence analysis 
  • You have experience working in an agile business setting.
  • You have experience with relational cloud databases like BigQuery and Snowflake and are comfortable working with unstructured datasets such as unstructured text.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

At Zinnia, you collaborate with smart, creative professionals who are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technologies, deeper data insights, and enhanced services to transform how insurance is done. Visit our website at www.zinnia.com for more information. Apply by completing the online application on the careers section of our website. We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.

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The Company
HQ: Topeka, KS
1,258 Employees
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Zinnia is Where Complexity Ends and Simplicity Begins. By merging decades of industry expertise with advanced technology, Zinnia seeks to transform the life and annuity experience from end-to-end. We will empower our clients to innovate and launch products faster, to buy, sell, manage, and service products more effectively, and to better serve their customers.

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