
Senior Data Scientist
Marsh McLennan
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Boston • Massachusetts • New York • United States
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About the role
- Supporting technical projects, including data engineering, model selection and design, and infrastructure deployment
- Exploring data, building models, and evaluating solution performance to resolve core business problems
- Explaining, refining, and collaborating with stakeholders through the journey of model building
- Advocating application of best practices in modelling, code hygiene and data engineering
- Leading the development of proprietary statistical techniques, algorithms or analytical tools
Requirements
- Technical background in computer science, data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics, or other quantitative and computational science
- Track record of designing and deploying technical solutions, which deliver tangible, ongoing value including:
- Building and deploying robust, complex production systems that implement modern data science methods at scale, including supervised and unsupervised learning
- Developing Generative AI and Agentic AI solutions, leveraging patterns such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), multi-agent frameworks and performance evaluation
- Demonstrating comfort and poise in environments where large projects are time-boxed
- Demonstrated fluency in modern programming languages for data science (i.e. at least Python, other expertise welcome)
- Knowledge of one or more machine learning frameworks
- Knowledge of one or more of the key generative AI frameworks
- Familiarity with the architecture, performance characteristics and limitations of modern storage and computational frameworks, with cloud-first considerations for Azure and AWS particularly welcome
- Solid theoretical grounding in the mathematical core of the major ideas in data science
- Fluency in the mathematical principles and generalizations of data science
Benefits
- A menu of healthcare options
- 401k matching
- Flexible working hours
- Opportunities for social impact and community work on company time
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringmodel selectioninfrastructure deploymentmachine learningartificial intelligencestatisticsprogramming languagesGenerative AIAgentic AImathematical principles
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationleadershipproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementtime managementadvocacyrefinementexplorationevaluation