About this job

Data Scientist in Telematics with a focus on Project Management (m/f/d)

Coburg, Bavaria, Germany

• Employment type: Full-time
• Weekly working hours: 38 hours
• Type of fixed-term contract: Permanent
• Casting begins immediately
• Contact person: Franziska Fischer
• Email contact: karriere@huk-coburg.de

At HUK-COBURG's Data Analytics Team, we transform data into real added value for over 13 million customers. As Germany's leading motor insurer, we are a long-established and stable company that invests strategically in innovation and its data-driven future. Our agile Data Analytics teams use state-of-the-art machine learning and AI methods to optimize processes, calculate fair prices, manage claims digitally and intelligently, and develop new, innovative insurance products.

Through our telematics solution, we already collect driving data from more than 500,000 customers who travel a distance roughly 300 times the Earth's circumference every day. Using this data, we can assess our customers' driving safety and reward high-quality driving with discounts. Furthermore, we can already automatically detect accidents, enabling us to assist our customers in emergency situations.

As a Data Scientist (m/f/d), we help to conceptualize, develop, and launch these innovative features. We work in a large, agile team, and we're looking for new members. Are you interested in helping shape the future of car insurance? Then apply now!

You can look forward to that.

• Working at the interface between methodology development and production operation in an agile big data and AI environment
• Development of complex software solutions based on machine learning
• Technical support for the production deployment of machine learning models
• Conception and coordination of tests and changes
• Data analytics, ad hoc analyses and reporting
• Teamwork in a motivated and agile team, as well as cross-departmental collaboration with adjacent specialist departments.

Your profile

• Completed studies (at least a Master's degree, ideally a PhD) in mathematics, physics, computer science, data science or a related field
• Confident handling of modern machine learning methods and relevant libraries in Python
• Experience in the design and development of Big Data applications
• Understanding the principles of software frameworks for distributed scalable systems and cloud computing
• Experience in project work and/or working in agile teams is an advantage.
• Independent work style with creativity and commitment
• Strong communication skills, mathematical and technical understanding, and a goal-oriented and results-driven work style.
• Hybrid work model: Willingness to be present in Coburg. Our benefits
• Employer contributions: Your bonus on top of your salary – 13.3 monthly salaries, performance-related pay, mobility allowances, employee savings plans
• Further development: Achieve your goals – qualification measures, subsidies for self-education measures, in-house training center
• Flexibility: Good work and a good life go hand in hand - the option to work up to half of your monthly working hours from home or on the go.
• Work-life balance: Work when it's best for you – flexible working hours with flextime, 31.5 days of vacation, Christmas and New Year's Eve off.
• Work & Family: To ensure you feel comfortable with us, we create the right conditions – support with childcare and holiday care as well as family care and part-time management positions.
• Health & Wellbeing: If you're well, we're well – offers for exercise, nutrition and mental health, subsidies for gym memberships and preventative courses
• Retirement planning: Think about tomorrow today – company pension schemes
• Employee counselling: Sometimes it's simply good to have someone from the outside think along with you – employee counselling to provide support in all phases of life.
• Company bike: Cycling instead of rolling - subsidies for your company bike