Chelsea Avondale is the world’s most cutting-edge home insurance group. We have developed sophisticated risk modeling and insurance pricing technologies for home insurance and deploy that technology through our own insurance company.
Our team consists of some of the brightest minds in insurance, software development, finance, and operations. Our group includes our scientific research & engineering division (Skynet Software) and Canadian property & casualty insurance company (Max Insurance).
Together, our group is transforming the Canadian and global insurance landscape.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Chelsea Avondale is looking for a Data Engineer with a gift for understanding and explaining large datasets using Python --- the primary coding language across our organization. These datasets contain millions of rows and hundreds of columns of proprietary data and offer unique opportunities for learning. Our business is going through rapid growth, and it is essential that the analysis of our data keeps up with this pace.
The primary focus of the Data Engineer will be to gather, curate, and preprocess data from various sources, ensuring data quality and integrity at all times; to explore and analyze large connected datasets using statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms with the goal of enabling users to self-serve; and to communicate findings to stakeholders through data visualizations, reports, and presentations. Our data plays a pivotal role in driving the development of our scientific models, pricing platform and broker portal. From a deep understanding of the data, the Engineer can propose technology improvements or come up with innovative solutions to solve business problems.
This position is ideal for candidates who have an extraordinary sense of responsibility and are not afraid to roll up their sleeves. You have to be comfortable taking the initiative with rich new datasets that may be ambiguous. Our IT environment is streamlined, focusing on a core set of technologies. We need someone who is comfortable working within this framework and can innovate without relying on an extensive toolkit We take pride in maintaining a fundamental stack of technologies, much of it in Python, and we are looking for someone who shares this mentality.
While our primary language is Python, we are open to exploring and integrating new tools and technologies that can enhance our data processes. This role offers the opportunity to influence our technical direction and adopt best practices in data engineering.
If you are someone who thrives in a high-performance culture and is eager for work that is both challenging and constantly evolving, this role is perfect for you. We strongly encourage and help our team members to improve and enhance their personal skill sets within our organization. On your journey with us, you will have the ability to learn and grow rapidly, taking on more responsibilities.
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Chelsea Avondale welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.