Data Governance Analyst
Northern Arizona Healthcare
SQL
Catastrophe Risk Modeler
KatRisk LLC
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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JuniorMid-Level
Tech Stack
LinuxPython
About the role
- Develop, calibrate, and maintain catastrophe models for perils such as wildfire, flood, wind, earthquake, and other natural hazards.
- Collect, analyze, and process large data sets from clients as well as national and international sources.
- Design and implement data pipelines to process large geospatial and temporal datasets from multiple sources. Build complex statistical models using geospatial statistical methods, machine learning, and other modeling techniques.
- Collaboratively write code to manipulate and analyze large and complex numeric and geospatial data sets.
- Rigorously evaluate the built models for their performance and validate them with respect to historical data.
- Write clear documentation of implemented methodologies, justifying critical steps and assumptions.
- Present model results and data analysis findings to team members and clients with diverse scientific and statistical backgrounds.
- Utilize the KatRisk Software Suite and interpret results for clients and internal studies.
- Contribute to ongoing research and development in hazard science, vulnerability modeling, and climate-related risk assessment.
Requirements
- Master’s with or Ph.D. in a STEM field.
- 2+ years of experience in catastrophe modeling, actuarial science, or quantitative risk analytics.
- Ability to work under minimal supervision.
- Strong proficiency in R or Python.
- Knowledge of LINUX user environment and command-line operation
- Experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), e.g., QGIS, GRASS, GDAL. Ability to programmatically manipulate geospatial data is highly desirable.
- Experience in collecting, manipulating, and processing large data sets.
- Detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- Excellent collaboration skills in a remote work environment.
- Strong understanding of catastrophe modeling concepts (hazard, exposure, vulnerability, loss).
- Peer-reviewed publications that highlight critical thinking and statistical modeling skills.
- Ability to work under minimal supervision.
- Understanding of insurance industry and knowledge of terminology.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
catastrophe modelingactuarial sciencequantitative risk analyticsRPythonLINUXGeographic Information Systems (GIS)geospatial statistical methodsmachine learningdata analysis
Soft skills
analytical skillsproblem-solvingverbal communicationwritten communicationcollaborationattention to detailindependencecritical thinking
