Data Scientist II Gen AIPythonAWSSQL
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Atlanta, GA - USA
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Job Summary
When you join the team at Unum you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.
Here we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout lifes moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this we provide:
Award-winning culture
Inclusion and diversity as a priority
Performance Based Incentive Plans
Competitive benefits package that includes: Health Vision Dental Short & Long-Term Disability
Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
Mental health support
Career advancement opportunities
Student loan repayment options
Tuition reimbursement
Flexible work environments
And thats just the beginning
With 10000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether youre directly supporting a growing family or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others and join Team Unum today!
We are seeking a Data Scientist II to join our innovation hub a small agile team focused on delivering solutions for high-impact business this role you will support the development of proof-of-concept applications build and deploy machine learning and generative AI solutions and partner with stakeholders across the enterprise to turn complex business problems into actionable insights. You will have the opportunity to expand your technical expertise while helping drive innovation and business value through data science and AI.
Job Specifications / Qualifications
Education & Experience
Bachelors degree in a quantitative field required. Masters is preferred
4 years of professional experience or equivalent relevant work.
Technical Expertise
Core Data Science Capabilities Deep expertise in at least two of the following skillsets preferred; and competency in the other:
Programming & Automation:
Python required; experience with automation DevOps practices APIs file I/O and database integrations.
Experience engineering solutions in cloud environments (AWS preferred; Azure/Google comparable).
Exposure to objectoriented development and scalable architecture.
Data Visualization:
Expertise across multiple visualization tools and techniques.
Ability to tailor visuals to business use cases and audiences.
Statistics & Machine Learning:
Deep knowledge of statistical inference regression feature selection feature extraction and ML algorithms.
Familiarity with generative AI approaches is a plus.
Data Engineering / ETL:
Strong SQL skills; ability to design debug and optimize complex queries.
Ability to navigate and explore large databases independently.
Experience combining internal and external data sources.
Soft Skills & Business Leadership
Strong communication skills including the ability to influence senior leaders.
Project management experience and strong business acumen (financial services experience a plus).
Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives in a fastmoving environment.
Comfortable facilitating engagements and representing analytics with executive leadership.
Primary Responsibilities
Analytical Solution Development
Design develop and execute analytical solutions using optimization simulation machine learning generative AI and statistical modeling.
Construct predictive models to explain events forecast behaviors identify risk or perform segmentation and clustering.
Apply domain expertise to ensure models are practical interpretable and aligned with business needs.
Evaluate alternative approaches and select appropriate modeling techniques for each use case.
Data Engineering & Preparation
Integrate and transform large volumes of data from diverse sources (e.g. DB2 SQL Server Teradata APIs) to support analytics and experimentation.
Build modelingready datasets using validation reconciliation feature engineering and aggregation techniques.
Write complex SQL queries involving multitable joins data exploration and troubleshooting with minimal guidance.
Develop logical data models combining internal and external datasets; lead conversations with external data providers when needed.
Automation & Deployment
Build automated analytics pipelines leveraging scripting APIs DevOps practices and cloud platforms.
Partner with engineering and IT teams to scale solutions automate workflows and integrate models into business processes.
Actively participate in operationalizing AI/ML solutions within production environments.
Visualization Insights & Communication
Develop and deliver clear compelling visualizations (static or dynamic) tailored to various audiences.
Interpret analytical results and communicate actionable insights that influence senior leaders and key business partners.
Translate complex technical work into businessfriendly recommendations.
Mentorship & Collaboration
Coach mentor and develop associate or junior data scientists; provide technical guidance and feedback.
Work in a collaborative innovation-focused environment with product owners engineers data architects and business partners.
Manage multiple projects simultaneously prioritizing independently and guiding less experienced team members.
Innovation & Research
Stay current on emerging statistical methods machine learning advancements and generative AI tools.
Conduct independent R&D to prototype new approaches and explore innovative solutions for highvisibility business problems.
Demonstrate entrepreneurial selfstarter mindset with a strong curiosity and continuouslearning orientation.
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Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga TN with international offices in Ireland Poland and the UK Unum also has significant operations in Portland ME and Baton Rouge LA - plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia SC with over 40 field offices nationwide.
Unum is an equal opportunity employer considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring placement and advancement without regard to a persons race color religion national origin age genetic information military status gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression disability or protected veteran status.
The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description actual pay will be based on skill geographical location and experience.
$80630.00-$165500.00Additionally Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health vision dental) insurance benefits (short & long-term disability) performance-based incentive plans paid time off and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.
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About Company
Unum provides comprehensive financial insurance products to industries of all sizes. Leader in disability insurance, life insurance, compliance and developing HR technology solutions for our clients.
