Data Scientist - France/Germany/UK/Spain

Shift Technology
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Job Description

Shift Technology enables the world’s leading insurance organizations to make better decisions with the power of AI. From underwriting risk detection to claims decisioning and financial crime detection, our globally-distributed team solves the most difficult challenges facing insurers today. 

Founded in France in 2014, the company now serves over 115 global customers–including 6 of the top 10 U.S. P&C insurers and 4 of the top 10 global P&C insurers–and has processed well over 2.6 billion claims. Our culture is built on innovation, trust, and a drive to transform the insurance industry by imagining and inventing solutions that impact insurers and their customers. We come from more than 40 different countries and cultures to share a common purpose and mission as One Team.

  • We are seeking Data Scientists across our European locations: France, UK, Germany, Spain. Native French, English, German, or Spanish are required for the respective locations.
  • Shift Technology offers a unique opportunity to brilliant candidates to accelerate their careers in data science
  • Data scientists work on a broad range of subjects, acquiring a lot of technical and professional experience in data science, data engineering, coding, business understanding and client interactions; skills invaluable in any career.
  • Our company is small enough that each person’s achievements have an impact on overall performance, yet big enough to be a world leader in our domain.
  • We are a fast growing company, the best contributors will grow to managerial or product tech lead positions much more rapidly than in bigger companies

YOUR ROLE

The data science team is in charge of technically delivering the Shift products to clients, the key role in the success of our projects with clients. It is a hands-on job, expect to be doing everything you can imagine from the technical side in an AI company:

  • Implementation of the data engineering, usually from client extracts to the insertion of the data in our data stores (SQL, ElasticSearch)
  • Developing, testing, tuning models and putting them in production for tasks such as fraud detection and automation detection in complex environments.
  • Automate key business tasks by implementing them in our production process framework in C#
  • Conduct meetings with clients and interact with external stakeholders, whether it is direct user feedback, presenting business cases or defining the roadmap of evolutions for that client
  • You will actively participate in the definition and development of our suite of products on fraud detection, anti-money laundering and claim automation, working on various data types such as structured data, free text, documents and images. 

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

  • As a result of the range of the role, we are looking for people with diverse skills and proficiencies to help make our customers successful.We are open to people not having exactly all of the required skills, but in each one of those they must be willing to build expertise.

As a result, we expect data scientists to be:

Code-savvy,

  • either by having a degree in computer science and/or having developed some apps with actual users, or by willing to spend a lot of time practicing. Writing scripts for models and notebooks is not enough at Shift, we thrive on people who can write maintainable, production-quality code that will run everyday without breaking.

AI-savvy,

  •  either by having a degree in machine learning and/or statistics or be looking to work on those subjects. Having a clear understanding of statistics and machine learning problems, tasks and common resolutions is important to communicate internally and explain to the client how the product is working.

Client facing.

  • You will need to be comfortable, clear and professional when talking to clients during meetings and by email. Expect to talk with a client every other day and grow your communicational and presentational skills!

Business smart.

  • We don’t expect candidates to know the insurance sector, but we want people who can learn and master the business aspects of our products

English speakers.

  • We are an international company with offices in many countries and 40+ nationalities, the Shift working language is English.
  • Fluency in French, German, English, or Spanish

Company Info.

Shift Technology

Shift Technology delivers the only AI-native decision automation and optimization solutions built specifically for the global insurance industry. Addressing several critical processes across the insurance policy lifecycle, the Shift Insurance Suite helps insurers achieve faster, more accurate claims and policy resolutions. Shift has analyzed billions of insurance transactions to date and was presented Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 Global Claims Solutio

  • Industry
    Information Technology
  • No. of Employees
    300
  • Location
    14 Rue Gerty Archimède, 75012 Paris, Île-de-France, France
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