Data Scientist

Posting Description:
**Data Scientist**

**Aon is in the business of better decisions**

At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.

As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

**About ACIA**:
Aon’s Centers for Innovation and Analytics are at the heart of delivering Aon’s Data & Analytic Services team’s mission to: Accelerate the rate of innovation through digital solutions to help better respond to clients’ evolving needs. Provide foundational data and analytics capabilities in one place for 50,000 Aon colleagues and our global clients who use our risk and people solutions.

Established in 2012, there are over 100 colleagues in Singapore’s Centre today including actuaries, software developers, data scientists, financial analysts and accountants. We are expanding rapidly and looking for dedicated individuals who can leverage emerging technologies and collaborate across Aon’s solution lines to help clients and colleagues make better, data-driven decisions today and tomorrow.

**What the day will look like**
- Brainstorm innovative ways to use our unique data to answer business problems.
- Provide technical leadership in a team that generates business insights, identify impactful recommendations, and communicate the findings to clients.
- Collaborate with a team of experienced actuaries, data engineers, developers, and business experts to deliver on Aon’s data, analytics and reporting capabilities.
- Develop elegant, and effective methodologies to solve complex business problems.
- Work with large datasets spanning health, wealth, and talent domains to identify key insights.
- Build pipelines for data cleaning, and data transformation while ensuring good code quality.
- Partner with business experts to enrich the data and find meaningful relationships/insights that can be applied to build actionable solutions.
- Build statistical and machine learning models to solve the business problem.
- Design, develop, test, improve, and document analytical solutions to drive innovation and efficiency.
- Implement automation, when possible, to streamline the process, and minimize manual intervention.
- Mentor junior colleagues and communicate with stakeholders.

**Skills and experience that will lead to success**
- Bachelor, Master, or Ph.D. in engineering, statistics, economics, or any other equivalent discipline with a strong statistical background.
- Experience working with defined contributions data, pension modeling and asset/interest rate analysis.
- Experience working with time series data sets and analysis.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with data cleaning, analysis, modeling, and result interpretation.
- Experience working in product teams with focus on designing and developing analytical capabilities.
- Recent working knowledge of SQL, Python, and PySpark. Knowledge of Databricks is a plus.
- Ability to handle projects with ambiguity in requirements and handle multiple projects at a given time.
- Fluent presentation and communication skills and ability to convey technical analyses and information in a clear and concise manner to a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Understand the importance of performance and able to implement best practices in ensuring performance and maintainability for data-centric projects.
- Quick and eager student of new technologies as and when they are needed.

**How we support our colleagues**

In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage a diverse workforce. Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two “Global Wellbeing Days” each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognise that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work... and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working

Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.

Aon values an innovative, diverse workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status.

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