At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. For more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags, and graduated driving laws to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and device and identity protection.
Your role in the team
Data, Discovery, and Decision Science (D3) is the research and analytics organization at Allstate. In D3, you'll be surrounded by 360+ tenacious and intellectually curious colleagues in an inclusive culture that encourages you to take risks, challenge the status quo, and shape the future for the greater good. We are solving some of today's most complicated analytics problems, making the lives of our Allstate colleagues easier and more productive, and driving our mission to deliver targeted insurance solutions to our customers.
We are partnering to incorporate analytics into every aspect of the enterprise. We are avid about learning new ways to get the most value from our massive data resources and leading-edge technology. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team where everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. We strive to hire people from different backgrounds so that we can better serve our diverse customer needs.
Key Responsibilities
* Uses best practices to develop statistical and machine learning techniques to build models that address business needs and improve the accuracy of our data-driven decisions.
* Reviews, evaluates, and communicates the appropriateness of modeling techniques and results to team, leadership, and stakeholders.
* Collaborates with the team on data and business problems to improve the effectiveness of business decisions through designing and implementing machine learning/predictive models.
* Identifies languages and tools that can bring efficiencies or needed techniques to the team.
* Utilizes effective project planning techniques to break down moderately complex machine learning/predictive modeling projects into tasks and ensure deadlines are kept.
Essential Skills
* All candidates must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
* 3+ years' experience in a related field working with data science techniques such as GBMs, ensemble forests, GLMs, deep learning, or graph mining.
* 2+ years of proven experience in leading or managing data science/machine learning projects.
* Experience collaborating with stakeholders to understand their objectives and present analytical findings.
* Experience leading technical projects.
Desirable Skills
* Proven experience implementing data science solutions into production systems.
* Proven experience leading & managing teams of technical individuals.
* A degree in a quantitative field such as mathematics, physics, or computer science with classification of 2.1 or higher (or equivalent).
What we offer
As Digital DNA's Workplace of the Year 2020 & 2022 winners, we offer a generous benefits package that includes flexible annual leave entitlement, dental and healthcare insurance, and an attractive pension package. Allstate invests heavily in your development, providing access to multiple world-class learning platforms and courses from our award-winning in-house Learning & Development team. We pride ourselves on providing clear career paths and opportunities for internal mobility.
Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities
Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age, or disability. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit. #J-18808-Ljbffr