About Guardrisk

Guardrisk is a specialist South African cell captive insurance and risk financing solutions provider. It is the market leader in this field in South Africa and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Momentum Metropolitan Holdings (MMH), a large South African financial services group. The Guardrisk specializes in cell captive insurance and alternative risk transfer solutions. A cell captive arrangement allows clients (cell owners) to own their own insurance product(s) within Guardrisk’s licensed framework, ring-fencing their risks and potential profits without the full cost and complexity of setting up a standalone insurance company.

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Job Purpose

As a data scientist, you will play a key role in leveraging data to drive insights, inform decision-making, and enhance our life and non-life insurance operations. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to develop innovative data-driven solutions that address business challenges and improve overall performance.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree/ diploma in one of the following fields: Informatics, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or Information Technology
• Proven experience working as a data scientist or in a similar role, preferably in the life and non-life insurance industry. Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, or Java, as well as in data analysis and machine learning libraries ( TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn)
• At least 4 years working experience in the following:
• Power BI (essential)
• Azure Data Factories (essential)
• Azure Synapse Analytics (essential)
• Python / R, C , C#, Java (critical)
• Microsoft SQL Server (critical)
• T-SQL (critical)
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and present complex ideas in a clear and concise manner
• Strong understanding of statistical concepts, data modeling techniques, and experimental design principles

Duties & Responsibilities

• Participate in the analysis, design, development, troubleshooting and support of the reporting and analytics platform
• Analyze complex datasets to identify trends, patterns, and correlations
• Generate and test working hypotheses, and interpret results to provide actionable insights
• Develop, implement and validate machine learning algorithms and statistical models
• Build and operationalize predictive models to unearth hidden insights
• Collaborate with actuaries, underwriters, and other stakeholders to integrate data science solutions into existing workflows and processes
• Develop BI solutions using SQL, ETL scripting, business intelligence tools, database programming and reporting tools on the Microsoft BI Stack
• Build scalable data pipelines and infrastructure for collecting, processing, and analyzing large volumes of structured and unstructured data
• Automation of recurring processes and the monitoring thereof
• Must have prior experience developing business intelligence solutions in large or midsize companies
• Must be able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and react to problems quickly
• Must have extensive experience with T-SQL
• Must be able to develop, maintain, review, and explain predictive models
• Understanding of the financial services industry desired, especially Insurance
• Experience using data visualization tools, e.g., Power BI
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to translate business requirements into actionable insights
• Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka) and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)

Competencies

• Business acumen
• Analytical
• Good communication skills