Associate Scientist, Data Sourcing

**Flexible Work Eligible**: None

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**Associate Scientist - Data Sourcing & Solutions**
Gurgaon/Bangalore, India

AXA XL recognises data and information as critical business assets, both in terms of managing risk and enabling new business opportunities. This data should not only be high quality, but also actionable - enabling AXA XL's executive leadership team to maximise benefits and facilitate sustained enterprise advantage. Our Innovation, Data, and Analytics Office (IDA) is focused on driving innovation by optimizing how we leverage data to drive strategy and create a new business model - disrupting the insurance market. As we develop an enterprise-wide data and digital strategy that moves us toward a greater focus on the use of data and data-driven insights, we are seeking an Associate Scientist for our Data Sourcing & Solutions team. The role sits across the IDA Department to make sure customer requirements are properly captured and transformed into actionable data specifications. Success in the role will require a focus on proactive management of the sourcing and management of data from source through usage.

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What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Accountable for documenting data requirements (Business and Function Requirements) and assessing the reusability of Axiom assets.
- Build processes to simplify and expedite data sourcing to focus on delivering data to AXA XL business stakeholders frequently.
- Develops and operationalizes strategic data products, and answers and proactively manages the sourcing and management of data from source through usage (reusable Policy and Claim Domain data assets).
- Data Validation Testing of the data products in partnership with the AXA XL business to ensure the accuracy of the data and validation of the requirements.
- Assesses all data required as part of the Data Ecosystem to make sure data has a single version of the truth.
- Respond to ad-hoc data requests to support AXA XL's business.

Instill a customer-first attitude, prioritizing service for our business stakeholders above all else.Internalize and execute IDA and company-wide goals to become a data-driven organization.
- Contribute to best practices and standards to make sure there is a consistent and efficient approach to capturing business requirements and translating them into functional, non-functional, and semantic specifications.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the data and our customers.
- Drive root cause analysis for identified data deficiencies within reusable data assets delivered via IDA.
- Identify solution options to improve the consistency, accuracy, and quality of data when captured at its source.

You will report to the Team Lead - Data Sourcing & Solutions.

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We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
**Required Skills and Abilities**:

- A minimum of a bachelor’s or master's degree (preferred) in a relevant discipline.
- Experience in a data role (business analyst, data analyst, analytics) preferably in the Insurance industry and within a data division.
- Robust SQL knowledge and technical ability to query AXA XL data sources to understand our data.
- Excellent presentation, communication (oral & written), and relationship-building skills, across all levels of management and customer interaction.
- Insurance experience in data, underwriting, claims, and/or operations, including influencing, collaborating, and leading efforts in complex, disparate, and interrelated teams with competing priorities.
- Passion for data and experience working within a data-driven organization.
- Work together internal data with external industry data to deliver holistic answers.
- Work with unstructured data to unlock information needed by the business to create unique products for the insurance industry.
- Possesses robust exploratory analysis skills and high intellectual curiosity.
- Displays exceptional organizational skills and is detail-oriented.
- The robust conceptual thinker who 'connects dots', and has critical thinking, and analytical skills.

**Desired Skills and Abilities**:

- Ability to take ownership, work under pressure, and meet deadlines.
- Ability to work with team members across the globe and departments.
- Builds trust and rapport within and across groups.
- Applies in-depth knowledge of business and specialized areas to solve business problems and understand integration challenges and long-term impact creatively and strategically.
- Ability to manage data needs of an individual project(s) while being able to understand the broader enterprise data perspective.
- Expected to recommend innovation and improvement to policies, and procedures, deploying resources, and performing core activities.
- Experience with SQL Server, Azure Databricks Notebook, Qlikview, PowerBI, and Jira/Confluence a plus.

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