***Please note: This will be a contract position through the end of 2021. There may be the opportunity for extension or conversion in the future, but is not guaranteed.

Pinnacol Assurance does just one thing, and does it better than anyone: provide caring workers’ compensation protection to Colorado employers and employees. Although employers are required by law to provide Worker’s Comp insurance, we believe our service is making a meaningful impact in worker’s lives across Colorado in their moments of need.

We have big hearts and love big ideas. We’ve been around for over 100 years, but don’t let that fool you. Pinnacol is committed to taking care of Colorado employers and workers in the most innovative of ways! We celebrate continuous improvement, new ideas, compassion, teamwork, integrity and excellence.
With our number one priority to keep everyone safe, along with the heart of Pinnacol’s “culture of caring” to do what is right and not what is easy, we’re currently having our team members work from home. During remote work, we’re still making time for fun! We host virtual painting classes, virtual yoga and Zumba classes, and virtual happy hours!

What you’ll do:

You will work with medical, claims, and policy related data that comes in a variety of formats – structured and unstructured - to generate insights and embed artificial intelligence into applications. As a Data Scientist, you will work with internal teams to:

• Extract and clean data from various sources
• Apply tools and methods to transform or enrich data for an array of possible uses
• Build creative solutions for a variety of problems of interest to our company  
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy working closely with a core data science team
• Build collaborative working relationships with both technical and business team members from a variety of teams and backgrounds
• Share knowledge and communicate complex concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical team members and leaders
• Enthusiastically seek out opportunities to grow both your domain and technical knowledge
• Devise creative approaches for leveraging incomplete or noisy data to build intelligent and/or automated solutions for decision-making and analysis
• Create effective technical documentation, charts, graphs, and analyses to support operationalizing and maintenance of solutions and products
• Support team members in the maintenance of systems for production environments and resolution of internal and external customer issues

What you’ll bring to the table:

• Strong programming skills. Preferred languages: Python, SQL,Bash
• Experience with common data science libraries (e.g. spaCy, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Keras)
• Experience in extracting, cleaning, preparing, and modeling data; command-line scripting, data structures, and algorithms
• Two or more years of experience working with insurance data (e.g. medical records, insurance claims, policy data) preferred
• Familiar with fundamental concepts, practices, and principles of software and API development, version control, containers, and scalable infrastructure/platforms
• Proficiency using cloud environments; preferred experience in Google Cloud Platform