Senior Actuarial Data Scientist

Introduction to the team

We are looking for an Actuary with a love for risk management, and deep knowledge of insurance & FinTech pricing and product development to join the EG InsurTech team. In this role, you will lead risk management of our FinTech portfolio. This is a highly analytical & partner facing role with the opportunity to make a significant impact on Expedia's revenues and interact with senior leadership. You will have a demonstrated ability to deliver results under tight timelines and exhibit excellent business judgment along with quantitative skills, a perfect mix of technical and non-technical skills.

In this role, you will:

• Perform in a lead role on data analytics-focused projects where you will develop, evaluate, and deploy cutting-edge methods and models for travel insurance and related fintech products

• Lead risk management & actuarial tasks such as valuation of products and liabilities and experience studies

• Manage our reserving funds including working with external actuaries in partner insurance organizations as relevant

• Provide actuarial inputs in pricing and claims throughout product life cycle

• Build end-to-end design of actuarial process to provide scalable InsurTech product development and pricing support

• Ensure compliance with applicable legal and accounting requirements, which may be in accordance with both US and international standards

• Understand and contribute to building analyses and predictive ML models in Python/R

• Collaborate and communicate effectively with our broader product team within a coding environment, while adhering to model development and maintenance best practices

Experience and qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree (STEM field) or equivalent experience

• Broad knowledge of pricing and risk aspects of the Actuarial field with Associate or Fellow Actuary designation (FCAS/FSA/ACAS/ASA)

• 7+ years of Actuarial/Analytical experience

• 4+ years of project leadership

• Experience leveraging traditional insurance and non-traditional data sets using SQL

• Experience conducting analyses in Excel and programming languages such as R, Python

• Experience building and deploying statistical machine-learning models, such as linear regression, logistic regression, GLM, GAM, etc

• Experience interacting with senior management

Preferred:

• Advanced degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics or other relevant courses plus 7+ years of directly relevant actuarial experience

• 7+ years experience working within the insurance or FinTech industry / claims experience

• Proficiency in common ML programming languages (Python, R, Spark…) and familiarity with ML algorithms

• High level organizational and project management skills for handling multiple concurrent assignments in a timely manner

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. .