Consulting Actuary & Data Scientist

Description

The Consulting Actuary and Data Scientist role will focus on providing comprehensive analytics consulting and solutions for payor and provider clients, including offerings in value-based care, referral analytics, and operations efficiency.  A successful candidate will possess excellent technical, communication, and interpersonal skills and will be self-motivated and driven to achieve. Our practice is close-knit and focuses on building and maintaining a culture of putting people first. If you’re looking to build a career with other kind and like-minded professionals, please reach out to us.

 

Who We Are

Independent for 75 years, Milliman delivers market-leading services and solutions to clients worldwide. Today, we are helping companies take on some of the world’s most critical and complex issues, including retirement funding and healthcare financing, risk management and regulatory compliance, data analytics and business transformation.

Through a team of professionals ranging from actuaries to clinicians, technology specialists to plan administrators, we offer unparalleled expertise in employee benefits, investment consulting, healthcare, life insurance and financial services, and property and casualty insurance.

 

The Team

Milliman’s Mountain Gulf Health Practice consists of fifty-two actuarial professionals, healthcare consultants, IT, and administrative professionals. We are a group of highly self-motivated and enthusiastic individuals. Our practice has developed expertise in a variety of business areas, which means we are always working on new and interesting challenges related to the healthcare field and actuarial profession.

 

Responsibilities and Objective

 Lead projects from an actuarial and/or data science perspective

• Providing strategic insights
• Developing business
• Enhance data analytics capabilities in the practice
• Use actuarial knowledge in conjunction with data science skills to ensure that the chosen solution is actuarially sound, and to answer actuarial questions posed by data scientist team members
• Peer review other’s work product
• Process data for predictive models and visualization
• Develop tools and code to be used by others
• Assist in R&D and marketing efforts to grow the business

 

What We Are Looking For

 Professional Qualifications

• A college degree in a STEM related discipline such as actuarial science, mathematics, data science, statistics, computer science, or other quantitative field,
• ASA
• 10+ years’ experience in healthcare, insurance, or a related field
• Proficient in SAS programming
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server
• Experience with Data Modeling and Analysis
• Experience with Agile Methodologies
• Experience with Machine Learning
• Proficient in Python, SQL, and Git, and SaaS support
• Attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to summarize, explore, and manipulate large data sets
• Proven project management and consulting skills
• Superior problem-solving capabilities and desire to learn
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without sponsorship from Milliman presently or in the future. Milliman’s Mountain Gulf Health does not allow for sponsorship in order to maintain or obtain an employment authorizing status/visa or other form of employment authorization in order to legally work in the United States.
• Experience in business development preferred
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines
• Strong time management skills
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Ability to work independently and within a team

 

Location

 The Mountain Gulf Health Practice operates under one management group across five locations – Denver, Houston, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco. Candidates hired into this role may work remotely anywhere in the US or onsite in select locations where we have physical office space if they prefer.

 

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $120,000 to $243,000, depending on a combination of factors, including, but not limited to, education, relevant work experience, qualifications, skills, certifications, location, etc.

 

Benefits

At Milliman, we focus on creating an environment that recognizes – and meets – the personal and professional needs of the individual and their family. We offer compe