VIE - JUNIOR DATA SCIENTIST HF

Job description

Entreprise:
The life & saving business/ AXA Life Insurance Co., Ltd.:
Our individual and group life insurance policies encompass both savings and retirement products, on the one hand, and other health and personal protection products, on the other.
Location: Minato-ku, Tokyo, # of employees: 7,774, Premium income: 604.4 billion yen
Poste et missions:
As Junior Data Scientist, your main mission will be to provide actual solutions to business challenges.
Core activities:
- Work closely with business experts to understand the operational needs (actuarial, marketing, usage…) and translate business needs into mathematical models and problems
- Collect, understand, analyze, integrate and explore the internal and external data to find correlations and relations
- Apply data science tools to solve business challenges (incl. machine learning)
- Work with other departments (IT and business) to ensure operational use of results and measure impacts on key business indicators
- Popularize your studies / approaches / solution for a less informed audience by communicating effectively towards the relevant communities and committees, relying on visualization capabilities
Profil:
Technical and professional skills:
- Strong scientific education (Master’s degree or PhD)
- Ability to model the reality of business into equations, and to understand the implications and limitations of a model
- Programming skills (ideally Python or similar; appreciated: R, Java / Scala)
- Strong experience in data processing (e.g. data mining, social network analysis, text mining…)
- Practice with database access (SQL; optionally Pig and Hive)
- Knowledge and practice of machine learning, including libraries (e.g. scikit-learn, Spark MLlib, R packages)
- Appreciated: practice with a modern distributed computing framework (like Spark)
Soft skills and competencies:
- Autonomy
- Academic curiosity / passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data
- Customer oriented
- Results focused
- Continuous learner
- English
- fluent in speaking and writing
- Japanese
- Basic to Business in speaking, reading and writing
Experience:
- Work experience in an international environment is a plus