Data Scientist

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Are you ready to shine?

At Sun Life, we empower you to be your most brilliant self.

Who we are?

Sun Life is a leading financial services company with history of 150+ years that helps our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.

We serve millions in Canada, the U.S., Asia, the U.K., and other parts of the world. We have a network of Sun Life advisors, third-party partners, and other distributors. Through them, we’re helping set our clients free to live their lives their way, from now through retirement. We’re working hard to support their wellness and health management goals, too. That way, they can enjoy what matters most to them. And that’s anything from running a marathon to helping their grandchildren learn to ride a bike.

To do this, we offer a broad range of protection and wealth products and services to individuals, businesses, and institutions, including:

Insurance. Life, health, wellness, disability, critical illness, stop-loss, and long-term care insurance. Investments. Mutual funds, segregated funds, annuities, and guaranteed investment products Advice. Financial planning and retirement planning services Asset management. Pooled funds, institutional portfolios, and pension funds With innovative technology, a strong distribution network and long-standing relationships with some of the world’s largest employers, we are today providing financial security to millions of people globally.

Sun Life is a leading financial services company that helps our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives, with strong insurance, asset management, investments, and financial advice portfolios. At Sun Life, our asset management business draws on the talent and experience of professionals from around the globe.

Sun Life Global Solutions (SLGS)

Established in the Philippines in 1991 and in India in 2006, Sun Life Global Solutions, (formerly Asia Service Centers), a microcosm of Sun Life, is poised to harness the regions’ potential in a significant way - from India and the Philippines to the world. We are architecting and executing a BOLDER vision: being a Digital and Innovation Hub, shaping the Business, driving Transformation and superior Client experience by providing expert Technology, Business and Knowledge Services and advanced Solutions. We help our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives – our core purpose and mission.

We are constantly expanding our strength in Information technology and are looking for fresh talents who can bring ideas and values aligning with our Digital strategy.

Our Client Impact strategy is motivated by the need to create an inclusive culture, empowered by highly engaged people. We are entering a new world that focuses on doing purpose driven work. The kind that fills your day with excitement and determination, because when you love what you do, it never feels like work. We want to create an environment where you feel empowered to act and are surrounded by people who challenge you, support you and inspire you to become the best version of yourself. As an employer, we not only want to attract top talent, but we want you to have the best Sun Life Experience.

We strive to Shine Together, Make Life Brighter & Shape the Future!

Responsibility/Skillsets (Must)

• Understand and design analytical solutions to Business problems leveraging Data science.
• Should be able to understand and gather the requirement from Stakeholders.
• Propose and execute the solution and present the deliverables to Stakeholders.
• Manage and optimize the deliverables.
• Mentor and Train new team members.
• Develop POCs to enhance team’s capability.

Skillsets (Must)

• Strong understanding of Math, Statistics and the theoretical foundations of Statistical & Machine Learning, Parametric and Non-parametric models.
• Strong understanding of advanced data mining techniques, curating, processing and transforming data to produce sound datasets.
• Use various statistical techniques and ML methods to perform predictive modeling/classification for problems around client, distribution, sales, client profiles, segmentation and provide relevant & actionable recommendations/insights for the business.
• Strong understanding of the Machine Learning lifecycle - feature engineering, training, validation, scaling, deployment, scoring, monitoring, and feedback loop.
• Stronghold on Visualization tool libraries in Python like matplotlib, seaborn.
• Experience with cloud computing infrastructure like Azure, Cosmos DB, PowerBI.
• Able to develop, test and deploy models on Cloud/Web.
• 6-8 years’ experience in Designing and Deploying Deep Learning Solutions
• Excellent knowledge of Deep Learning Architectures/Convolutional Neural Networks
• Excellent knowledge of Supervised Learning, Adversarial Learning
• Excellent Python Coding Skills
• Robust working knowledge with deep learning frameworks (like Tensor flow, Keras, PyTorch)

Skillsets (Good to have)

• BFSI Domain.
• Experience on Textual Analytics, Web Crawlers, Recommendation Engines
• Understanding of MLOps

Qualifications

• BE/B. Tech. /MBA/M.Stat./M.Sc. or equivalent degree in Quant. from reputed institute.
• 7+ years of relevant experience.

Soft Skills

• Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize wide range of tasks
• Demonstrated initiative and creativity - ability to influence (add value)
• Strong interpersonal, communication, motivational, organizational and planning skills

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