Senior Data Scientist – Claims Analytics

About the role

We are recruiting a Data Scientist with Deep Learning experience to join our Data Analytics team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a dedicated analytics team working on Claims and Fraud with multiple areas across the business.

At AXA, diversity and inclusion means empowering people to be 100% themselves at work. We are moving towards a smart working model with hybrid way of working. We champion flexible working and are more than happy to consider full and part time hours with flexibility to suit and our Business.

Reporting to the Data Analytics Manager, you will work in a team of data scientist data engineers and actuaries & your main responsibilities will include:

• Maintain and improve existing data science pipelines.
• Build data pipelines using data science and machine learning techniques to solve business problems.
• Build automated solutions for classification, entity recognition and extraction using Natural Language Processing or Image Processing techniques.
• Interact with the business to understand their needs and requirements.
• Derive insights from analysis of large internal or external data sets and recommend potential business uses.
• Prepare and deliver presentations and visualisations, making actionable and business focused recommendations for improvement.
• Work collaboratively within the team and share best practices.

At AXA, we want to become one of the most inspiring companies to work for and to achieve this ambition, we need the best talent to come and work for us. We look for candidates with the right skills and values to join us and selection is based on a fair and equal process. As a financial services company, all successful candidates will require employment checks, so we can ensure regulatory compliance.

We’re proud to be committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all backgrounds. 

AXA Ireland dac consider applicants on the basis of skills, experience & qualifications and without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, disability or any other legally protected status.

About AXA

Would you like to wake up every day driven and inspired by our noble mission and to work together as one global team to empower people to live a better life? Here at AXA we strive to lead the transformation of our industry. We are looking for talented individuals who come from varied backgrounds, think differently and want to be part of this exciting transformation by challenging the status quo so we can push AXA - a leading global brand and one of the most innovative companies in our industry - onto even greater things.

In a fast-evolving world and with a presence in 64 countries, our 166,000 employees and exclusive distributors anticipate change to offer services and solutions tailored to the current and future needs of our 103 million customers.

About the person

• Masters+ in Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics or Computer Sciences.
• 3+ year’s work experience in a Data Science role.
• Proven experience using Python and Deep Learning required
• Proven experience using OCR engines (Tesseract, Cognitive Services, Textract, others)
• Good understanding of machine learning models and data science process (feature engineering, modelling, etc.) required.
• Proficient in using code or analytical tools for modelling, visualisation, data manipulation and processing.
• Knowledge of Natural Language Processing required.
• Preferred Experience:
  • Dealing with unstructured data
  • Working in an agile environment (Sprints, Kanban, code versioning)
  • Working with cloud service (Preferably Azure)
  • Good understanding of APIs / web services