Principal Data Scientist
Company: Sedgwick
Location: Tennessee (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-08-18
About this role
By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It’s what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.
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Principal Data Scientist
Job Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of advanced statistical and machine learning models that improve claims outcomes, operational efficiency, and risk management.
- Serve as the technical authority for complex modeling initiatives including fraud detection, claims severity prediction, litigation risk modeling, and recovery optimization.
- Develop predictive and prescriptive models using structured and unstructured claims data, including adjuster notes, medical records, and policy documentation.
- Architect modeling approaches that leverage modern techniques such as gradient boosting, deep learning, NLP, anomaly detection, and probabilistic modeling.
- Partner with AI Engineering teams to productionize models and integrate them into enterprise AI platforms and operational systems.
- Design feature engineering strategies and modeling pipelines using large-scale enterprise datasets.
- Establish best practices for model development, experimentation, validation, and reproducibility.
- Lead advanced analytical techniques such as causal inference, scenario simulation, and risk scoring methodologies.
- Build and maintain model evaluation frameworks that measure accuracy, bias, stability, and business impact.
- Monitor deployed models for drift, degradation, and changing data distributions, and recommend recalibration strategies.
- Provide technical guidance to data scientists and analysts across the organ...