Senior Data Scientist
Role overview
Uber is home to one of the largest and most unique insurance programs in the world and insurance data lies at its foundation. We're looking for an experienced manager to lead our critical insurance data infrastructure. This will involve everything from designing new data models and improving existing data processes to expanding the scope of the data program to support Uber's ever-growing portfolio. This team works cross-functionally to ensure our data processes align with industry best practices and stakeholder needs.
Responsibilities
- check_circle Manage a team of 3 to deliver projects on time with high quality
- check_circle Design comprehensive quality checks to facilitate accurate analyses and to ensure Uber's insurance data meets compliance standards
- check_circle Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to build and improve on the availability, integrity, accuracy, and reliability of data logging and data pipelines.
- check_circle Collaborate with business leaders to manage project intake, roadmap, prioritize, and manage staffing against key initiatives
- check_circle Partner with internal and external stakeholders, including actuaries, engineers, program managers, and data scientists to identify challenges and opportunities for insurance data models
Basic qualifications
- M.S. or Bachelor's degree in Math, Economics, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or other quantitative fields
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience
- Minimum 2 years of management experience
- Proficiency with SQL, Python, big data frameworks (ex. Hadoop, Spark)
- Proficiency in a scripting language (Python preferred)
- Experience with Excel and some dashboarding/data visualization (ex. Tableau)
Preferred qualifications
- Experience building/maintaining SOX compliant control data environment
- Basic understanding of insurance concepts and working with insurance loss data
- Experience with an ETL framework like Airflow
- Project management skills - Ability to drive projects end-to-end
Tags & Focus Areas
About Uber
About the role: Collaborates with stakeholders within the team to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support user-facing products, downstream services, or infrastructure tools and platforms used across Uber. About the Team: Founded in August 2014, Uber Eats has become the largest food delivery app globally, and is the fastest growing food delivery platform in the world. We have doubled our gross bookings in just over the last year! Our team's work at Uber Eats directly impac...