When you join New York Life, you're joining a company that values development, career growth, collaboration, innovation, and diversity & inclusion. We want employees to feel proud about being part of a company that is committed to doing the right thing. Through various resources and programs, you can grow your career while developing personally and professionally.
The Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (CDSAi) is the innovative corporate data science group within New York Life. With over 40 team-members, consisting of data scientists, data engineers and project managers, we design and create unique data-driven solutions for the foundational arm of the enterprise. We have the freedom to explore external data sources and new machine learning techniques. Since the team's inception in 2016, we have been delivering a whole new generation of model-driven solutions. Our resulting data science products are implemented into real-time business processes and decisions that drive the company.
At the end of 2020, New York Life completed the acquisition of Cigna's group life, accident and disability insurance business. This was the largest acquisition in New York Life's history, adding roughly three thousand employees and more than nine million customers. With this expansion, CDSAi has identified a number of focus areas that would benefit from data science support: claims management (e.g. claims segmentation, claim manager profiling, claim eligibility automation), distribution (e.g. territory/opportunity analytics, sales forecasting), and underwriting (e.g. triage modeling, risk prediction modeling). There are many other areas within our strategic businesses which could gain enormous incremental value from our expertise providing us with a wide variety of exciting data science solutions to develop.
We have a state-of-the-art computing environment with a solid suite of machine learning tools and packages, a model deployment platform, and a large group of well-trained professionals at various levels to support you. Life insurance has already started undergoing a huge change. This is a chance to be part of and actually to drive, the continued transformation of an industry. Is this not why we became data scientists?
You will engage in all aspects of the model development lifecycle including model design, development, interaction with business partners, testing, validation and implementation.
You will apply your highly developed analytical skills to work on all aspects of the life insurance value chain, ranging from risk models, process triaging, and marketing predictions to a variety of other analytics solutions.
You will apply your technical data/ETL/programming skills to ingest, wrangle and explore external and internal data to create reports, function as the data expert and prepare data for modeling and support production deployment of models OR apply your technical modeling skills to build world-class predictive models for solving tangible business problems.
You will apply your high energy level and business sense to communicate with internal stakeholders and external vendors while effectively contributing to complex data science projects.
There are numerous opportunities to grow within the team. CDSAi supports continued training in data science (e.g. online course, conferences) and other areas such as leadership and communication (e.g. improving presentation skills, developing executive presence). Every summer, CDSAi hires graduate students to intern for the data scientists, benefiting both the interns (who gain valuable professional experience) and the data scientists (who gain valuable management experience). CDSAi managers actively engage in career coaching and senior data scientists act as mentors within the team and throughout the organization.
New York Life has an active data science community with the opportunity to share one's expertise and to learn from other groups. The Data Science Academy and Executive Education Program aim to educate employees and executive officers in the field of data science. The Women in Data Science group provides support to the current crop of women data scientists and encourages women not currently in the field of data science to explore professional and educational opportunities in data science. CDSAi also hosts numerous talks such as their lunch-and-learn series, as well as twice-yearly half-day data science expos and forums, to communicate the wide range of interesting and challenging data science projects that are conducted throughout the company.
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Job Requisition ID: 84044