Lead Pricing Model Developer (R Specialist)

at  XL Catlin

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We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Experience of insurance pricing
• Excellent communication skills to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Technical aptitude with experience programming (R/Python, Shiny, SQL, VBA) and working with other technical teams (Ops & Tech)
• Bachelor Degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Applied Math, Statistics, or related field.
• Ability to think strategically with a passion for innovation and a desire to utilize new technologies
• Pragmatic and results-driven

DESIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Experience developing production-standard R code (R Shiny applications, Plumber API’s)
• Experience working with microservice architecture
• GIT best practises
• Coding best practises (code and code base structure organisation)
• Experience with core actuarial concepts and with pricing models for commercial lines of business

• Support the new pricing model platform, including leading development of reusable components such as standardized UI, pricing APIs, enabling consistent data capture, and model versioning
• Supply documentation for pricing actuaries to develop their own pricing tools, providing a common framework to easily leverage best practices
• Ensure that the platform enables faster development of pricing tools with scalability across models and to a wide group of developers within Pricing
• Increase the ability to measure calibration of pricing models and make changes quickly to recalibrate models that are not aligned with plan
• Improve consistency of pricing model data capture and ability to reuse that data for other purposes
• Facilitate connections to third party services/data and integration with other internal systems
• Improve user experience within pricing models
• Establish and leverage a strong network of relationships with Ops & Tech, Pricing, and UW to design and implement solutions
• Support migration of existing pricing models to new platform
• Create consistent technical documentation for pricing models within the platform
• Effectively manage junior resources to migrate and improve pricing model