AVP, Lead Data Scientist
Company: Chubb
Location: Simsbury
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
Description Chubb’s North America Data and Analytics Division is
currently seeking an experienced Lead Data Scientist with 7 years
of industry experience to join our fast-paced, high-energy team. As
a Lead Data Scientist for NA PC Analytics, you will perform
quantitative data analysis to enable organizational decision making
and develop solutions to complex business problems and create value
to the business. This position offers exposure to a wide variety of
analytics tools and technologies as well as unique challenges in
problem-solving. In this role, you will: • Provide leadership and
oversight to project teams creating advanced statistical models,
including commercial insurance pricing models. • Synthesize data to
uncover inherent trends, assess impact of data on business usage,
and to make recommendations for improvement • Research, recommend,
and implement statistical and other mathematical methodologies
appropriate for the given business problem • Builds and deploys
generalize linear models in support of our pricing modeling efforts
for business lines such as homeowners, property, and casualty •
Performs data validation and exploratory data analyses •
Communicates analytical goals, approach, outcomes, and insights to
both technical and non-technical audiences • Translate analytical
findings into relevant business insights • Collaborate with
business partners and peers within the organization to understand
and scope the problem, gather business requirements, and develop
robust model solutions that drive improvement in key business
metrics • Effectively communicate with key stakeholders (both
technical and non-technical) in written, oral and presentation
formats • Create/Maintain excellent working relationships with
business partners across the Chubb organization including Field,
Product, Operations, IT and analytics peer groups. • Lead teams of
junior data scientists and engineers and provide guidance and
mentorship directly and indirectly Qualifications Required: o
Superb programming experience in Python o Excellent ML modeling
skills o Advanced understanding of predictive and prescriptive
analytics and data visualization. o Strong leadership skills to
provide guidance and direction to project teams. o Data
manipulation and feature engineering o Exploratory data analysis
and model development and solution design o Programming experience
in SQL. o Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and
non-technical audiences in written, oral and presentation formats.
o The ability to multi-task, learn new things quickly, and
demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills. o A/B testing
experience for quality engineering o GLM (Generalized Linear
Modeling) Preferred: o Prior insurance and/or financial services
experience. o Working knowledge/familiarity with Git version
control. o Experience in architecting and consuming APIs at scale.
o Hands-on experience with big data technologies and cloud
(Databricks / Spark, Azure/AWS/GCP/Snowflake). o Advanced knowledge
of model tuning, evaluation, and operationalization. Education: •
The candidate should have 7 years of industry experience in data
science and analytics. Graduate degrees in a technical field such
as Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Bioinformatics,
Physics, Mathematics, Economics or Engineering are preferred.
Location: • We are open to the following work locations for this
position: (Philadelphia, PA - Jersey City, NJ - Whitehouse Station,
NJ - New York, NY - Simsbury, CT). • Please note, there will be
limited expected travel to various work locations for in person
collaboration and meetings.
Keywords: Chubb, New England , AVP, Lead Data Scientist, IT / Software / Systems , Simsbury, Northeast
