catastrophe and Physical Climate Specialist
New York State Department of Financial Services
The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) supervises and regulates nearly 1,800 insurance companies with assets of over $5.5 trillion. It is a national leader in climate-related financial supervision.
Duties include, but are not limited to:
· Working across the Banking, Insurance, Capital Markets, and Research and Innovation Divisions at DFS to develop and administer catastrophe and physical risk-related initiatives,
· Working closely with the Insurance Division on Property and Casualty insurers’ catastrophe rate making and financial supervision,
· Enhancing DFS’ understanding on the understanding of the financial impacts from physical risks,
· Engaging with and providing support for DFS-regulated institutions as they develop approaches to assessing and managing physical risks,
Link:
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3083032364/
Meteorologist – KatRisk (Austin, TX)
KatRisk LLC
About the Role
KatRisk is seeking a dynamic Meteorologist for its office in Austin, TX. Candidates should be from a quantitative field and have a passion for problem solving with a focus in natural catastrophe and statistical modeling. The ideal candidate will also have experience with large climate data sets and numerical weather prediction models. As a member of the KatRisk team, you will support all facets of the business, from solving complex problems using unique solution-based programs to answering client questions.
As a member of our growing and highly versatile team, you will engage in all aspects of the business and quickly learn how catastrophe models are created from beginning to end. At KatRisk, we foster an environment that stimulates professional growth in many ways. We encourage professional growth by allowing any team member to provide ideas, regardless of their seniority. Furthermore, we value academic freedom and prize an entrepreneurial spirit, so much so that we afford any KatRisk employee the opportunity to join projects that align with their entrepreneurial or academic passions. We offer competitive pay, healthcare, 401k, parental leave, and 4 weeks of vacation.
Primary Responsibilities for this role include:
Processing and conducting statistical analysis of large meteorological data sets (ex/ CMIP, ERA-5, CPC, etc.)
Contributing to the development of catastrophe models by running and providing insight into numerical weather prediction and forecast models (WRF, GFS, GLOFAS etc.)
Running the KatRisk Software Suite and analyzing results for client and internal studies
Writing code to manipulate and analyze complex numeric or geographic data sets in a collaborative team setting
Presenting data analysis findings to team members who have diverse scientific and statistical backgrounds
Conference/Client presentations
Quality assurance
Link:
wwe.katrisk.com
Senior Catastrophe Modeling Analyst
USAA
Responsible for catastrophe risk analyses for multiple P&C insurance personal product lines. Role includes running one or more cat models, researching, recommending, and supporting model adjustments or overlays, hybrid approaches, or blending results from multiple catastrophe models as appropriate, validating exposure data and claims data, as well as working with and developing a strong relationship with a variety of business partners, such as product managers, state managers, underwriters, pricing actuaries, reinsurance actuaries, etc.
Link:
https://www.usaajobs.com/job/san-antonio/senior-catastrophe-modeling-analyst/1207/26634196096
Commercial Product Manager
Vave
The newly created Commercial Product Manager role will lead the Vave Commercial product and manage the Commercial underwriting portfolio.
Commercial Property is the most recent addition to the Vave product offering, but is the most complex and will be the fastest growing over the next year. The creation of this role marks the next stage in the expansion of this product.
From the outset, your work will have a direct impact on the profitability and growth of the Commercial Property portfolio. The role has responsibility for product appetite, algorithmic pricing and portfolio management. You will collaborate with other product managers to ensure consistency of pricing, work with data scientists to gain insights into our portfolio, and understand developments in the regulatory and legal environment. Your understanding of the strengths of the product will be invaluable in discussions with prospective clients.
The role will be ideal for a technical and personable candidate with a background in Cat modelling or actuarial, looking to bring their skills to bear in a dynamic underwriting team. You may not have considered underwriting before, but your analytical mind, problem solving and ability to detect trends will make you perfectly suited. Communication is key, and you must be comfortable presenting your arguments clearly and intelligently to a range of stakeholders.
Link:
https://canopius.postingpanda.uk/job/255008
Atmospheric Scientist
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has an exciting opportunity for an analytical and technically minded scientist or engineer with expertise in tropical cyclone wind assessment to join the Catastrophe Engineering and Analytics (CAT E&A) team. CAT E&A is an innovative and versatile technical team conducting catastrophe risk research and development and providing complex quantitative metrics that inform underwriting decisions.
The successful candidate will join the team responsible for conducting research and developing solutions for global tropical cyclone risk assessment and should have strong research and development experience with catastrophe models. In addition, you will conduct in-depth evaluation of vendor models, research and develop internal views of risks, consult on account-specific risk analyses, and develop internal tools to facilitate account underwriting decision-making and other related activities. The Scientist opportunity is in our Boston, MA or San Ramon, CA location.
Link:
https://bhspecialty.com/career/atmospheric-scientist/
DevOps Engineer
KatRisk LLC
About the role
The DevOps Engineer role will maintain and automate our platform's monitoring, availability, performance, and scalability, which includes analytic systems, API backend servers, serverless applications, SQL and NoSQL data stores running in the cloud, and on-premises. The role will also perform troubleshooting triage issues for research and development teams based in the U.S., Texas, and Germany. Rollback problematic releases to restore standard system functionality. Maintain and manage the git source code repository, builds, release candidates, and data. Manage internal networks, FTP, sFTP, S3, and Azure data stores.
Responsibilities
Build new instances and maintain existing instances.
Maintain server availability and services SLA.
Monitor metrics, alerts, and logs across infrastructure and applications.
Build and maintain resource notification systems.
Maintain and automate our platform's monitoring, availability, performance, and scalability, which includes analytic systems, API backend servers, serverless applications, SQL and NoSQL data stores running in the cloud and on-premises.
Respond to incidents, troubleshoot, investigate root causes, resolve, and capture incident details.
Triage and escalate issues to the appropriate development teams from JIRA.
Rollback problematic releases to restore standard system functionality.
Conduct post-incident investigation and report.
Write shell scripts for Linux and batch scripts for Windows to orchestrate build jobs.
Senior Research Scientist
Chubb
Chubb is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to join the CSC. The interested individual will join a dynamic team composed of people with diverse backgrounds. This position will be responsible for conducting research and developing solutions for natural and man-made catastrophes. We are seeking an analytical individual with a strong research experience in natural catastrophe risk assessment. As part of the CSC, you will play an integral role in delivering risk management solutions to various internal stakeholders.
Responsibilities include:
Perform in-depth evaluation of various peril region catastrophe models
Investigate, evaluate, and advise on model changes and new risk assessment tools. Communicate and present model validation and change management results to business units and other stakeholders
Partner with other teams such as claims and risk engineering to quickly convert data into insights. Incorporate lessons learned into the Chubb view of risk
Support business units with ad-hoc portfolio deep dives and pricing studies
Develop and implement strategies to assess and manage nonmodeled natural hazards risk
Support corporate catastrophe event response activities by providing near real-time actionable insights to the business, claims and senior management
Support underwriting, as needed, by outlining strengths and weaknesses of models for atypical risks
Qualifications
Ph.D./Masters degree in meteorology, engineering, seismology or a related discipline
A thorough understanding of catastrophe models and a proven ability to critically evaluate models and provide feedback in a fast-paced environment
Advanced knowledge of probability and statistics
4-6 years of experience in the validation or development of risk assessment models
Hands-on experience using RMS and/or AIR products
Advanced knowledge of Excel and SQL is required
Experience with R/Python or any other programming language preferred
Excellent analytical, communication and organization skills
Link:
https://careers.chubb.com/global/en/job/343841/Senior-Research-Scientist
CAT Senior Director - Wildfire Lead
Travelers
NO RECRUITERS - The Travelers Catastrophe Risk Management Group is seeking a CAT Senior Director to join our PERILS team. The PERILS team is a multi-discipline group focusing on peril research, the development of next generation analytics, and event response activities. As a member of this team you will be an active participant in the development and implementation of peril research and strategies. The team engages in enterprise-wide complex multi-disciplinary CAT research projects with various depths of focus. The position requires an individual who can strive in an analytical, innovation-driven environment, in tune with business needs.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Provide thought leadership and execution for the peril of wildfire
Partner with other subject matter experts to develop and implement our wildfire View or Risk
Identify, select, and extract relevant data from various internal and external sources. Complete analyses and present recommendations to team members, stakeholders, and Leadership
Validate wildfire Catastrophe Probabilistic Models and Risk Indexes
Stay abreast of the latest scientific research and summarize findings for the wildfire peril, including impacts of climate change on the peril
Perform catastrophe peril research, partnering with other subject matter experts
Research identified emerging issues related to the wildfire peril
Drive innovation through new tools/technologies and capabilities
Monitor the Company’s exposures, aggregations, and peril-specific book mix changes
Support our Business Units Consulting and Actuarial functions with ad-hoc research and peril strategy development
Create and maintain collaborative relationships with business partners
Link:
https://careers.travelers.com/job/14175533/
CAT Risk Cyber Peril Lead
Travelers Insurance
Job Position: Senior Director, Cyber Peril Lead, Catastrophe Risk
Summary
The Travelers Catastrophe Risk Management Group is seeking a CAT Senior Director to join our PERILS team leading our research related to man-made perils with a focus on Cyber risk. You will be joining a group of dedicated professionals charged with leading Travelers to be in position to successfully endure catastrophic loss from natural and man-made perils.
The PERILS team is a multi-discipline group focusing on peril research, the development of next generation analytics, and event response activities. As a member of this Team, you will be an active participant in the development and implementation of peril research and strategies. The team engages in enterprise-wide complex multi-disciplinary CAT research projects with various depths of focus. The position requires an individual who can strive in an analytical, innovation-driven environment, in tune with business needs.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
We are seeking a candidate with a solid analytical base in a scientific, engineering, or related quantitative discipline. The person will have effective self-organizational and time-management skills with the ability to work independently and formulate and execute project objectives. We seek problem solving and critical thinking skills in support of the team’s efforts to provide best-in-class analyses to our business partners. Some of the specific duties include:
. Provide thought leadership and execution for man-made perils with a focus on cyber risk – both affirmative and non-affirmative
. Provide subject matter expertise to cyber underwriting team
. Identify, select, and extract relevant data from various internal and external sources. Complete analyses and present recommendations to team members, stakeholders, and Leadership
. Validate cyber aggregation risk Models and Risk Indexes
Link:
None
Senior Analyst, Flood Model Development
Aon Impact Forecasting
https://jobs.aon.com/jobs/45008?lang=en-us
Link:
https://jobs.aon.com/jobs/45008?lang=en-us
Associate Director, Technical Writer - Impact Forecasting
Aon Impact Forecasting
https://jobs.aon.com/jobs/54297?lang=en-us
Link:
https://jobs.aon.com/jobs/54297?lang=en-us
Catastrophe Modeling Associate Manager
Allstate Insurance Company
The Catastrophe Modeling Associate Manager provides support in the form of research and analytical assignments for modeled natural hazard catastrophe perils. They complete assignments of moderate to high complexity, providing analytical and catastrophe modeling support to a variety of business partners in support of ratemaking, underwriting, product management strategy, and risk & return management.
See link for more details.
Link:
https://careers.allstate.com/job/Remote-Catastrophe-Modeling-Associate-Manager-Remo/885966900/?feedId=268800&utm_source=ExternalCS&utm_campaign=Allstate_Jobs
