GIS Consultant - Property & Casualty (remote)

Who We Are

Independent for over 75 years, Milliman delivers market-leading services and solutions to clients worldwide. Today, we are helping companies take on some of the world’s most critical and complex issues, including retirement funding and healthcare financing, risk management and regulatory compliance, data analytics and business transformation.

Milliman invests in skills training and career development, and gives all employees access to a variety of learning and mentoring opportunities. Our growing number of Milliman Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s) are employee-led communities that influence policy decisions, develop future leaders, and amplify the voices of their constituents. We encourage our employees to give back to their varied professions, including leadership in professional organizations. Please visit our web site (https://www.milliman.com/en/social-impact) to learn more about Milliman’s commitments to our people, diversity and inclusion, social impact and sustainability.

Milliman’s San Francisco-based property and casualty (P&C) practice focuses on applying advanced actuarial techniques and geospatial technology to develop innovative insurance products for traditional & start-up insurers. Our team includes actuaries, data scientists, and GIS experts. We are thought leaders in climate change, artificial intelligence, telematics, and other leading-edge research. We also do traditional actuarial work such as ratemaking, reserving, predictive modeling, competitive analysis, and a variety of special projects.

What You Will Do

The GIS Consultant works on some of today’s most important insurance problems, including modernizing flood insurance, addressing the wildfire crisis in California, and quantifying the impacts of climate change on future insurance availability and affordability. They are responsible for cartography and analysis in addition to data acquisition, enrichment, review, and editing to support our client projects and software. Since these challenges are hyper local in nature, GIS expertise is a central component of our workflows and has helped us become the industry leaders we are today.

The GIS Consultant will work directly with other GIS professionals, actuaries, data scientists, and developers on a broad range of client consulting projects and software products. Projects and responsibilities will vary widely depending on the specific engagement. GIS Consultant responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage client communication and deliverables throughout the lifecycle of a project
• Supervise GIS Analysts and Interns, including technical coaching, training and code reviews
• Direct, train, and actively assist staff with various GIS workflows including but not limited to:
  • Acquisition, review, and processing of third-party GIS data
  • Data visualization and cartography for client deliverables and internal decision making
  • Spatial analysis in Python using arcpy, pandas, and other libraries
  • Create custom raster and vector datasets across multiple platforms, such as ArcGIS, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL
  • Prepare and append geographic variables to large location level datasets
• Draft proposals, marketing materials, and external communications
• Comply with internal quality control and risk management guidelines

This role will require up to 10% travel nationwide, for company and industry events, client meetings, etc.

What We Are Looking For

Professional Qualifications (required)

• A minimum of 6 years of directly related professional experience
• Current or previous managerial or informal leadership experience
• Proficient with ESRI ArcPro software, including map layouts
• Proficient with Python scripting, including arcpy
• Experience with data transformation, summarization, and analysis in Python and Excel
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government issued Public Trust security clearance

Personal Qualifications

• Comfortable managing a team, as a player-coach
• Collaborative, with a strong sense of individual responsibility
• Actively develops new skills, to take on additional responsibilities over time
• Ability to balance work on multiple concurrent projects of varying complexity and duration
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Takes initiative to act and learn without explicit direction
• Strong attention to detail and technical accuracy

Preferred Qualifications

• GIS Professional certification
• Master’s degree in Geographic Information Science or related field
• Prior professional experience in property insurance and/or catastrophe risk assessment

Milliman Benefits

At Milliman, we focus on creating an environment that recognizes – and meets – the personal and professional needs of the individual and their family. We offer competitive benefits which include the following based on plan eligibility:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their dependents, including domestic partners
• A 401(k) plan with matching program, and profit sharing contribution
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid Time Off (PTO) starts accruing on the first day of work and can be used for any reason; full-time employees will accrue 15 days of PTO per year, and employees working less than a full-time schedule will accrue PTO at a prorated amount based on hours worked
• Family building benefits, including adoption and fertility assistance and paid parental leave up to 12 weeks for employees who have worked for Milliman for at least 12 months and have worked at least 1,250 hours in the preceding 12-month period
• A minimum of 8 paid holidays
• Milliman covers 100% of the premiums for life insurance, AD&D, and both short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Flexible spending accounts allow employees to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for dependent care, transportation, and applicable medical needs

Location

This role is based out of the Milliman office in San Francisco, California, but candidates hired into this role may work remotely anywhere in the U.S.

Compensation

The salary range is $107,000 to $217,000, depending on a combination of factors, including but not limited to education, relevant work experience, qualifications, skills, certifications, location, etc. In addition, we offer a signicant performance-based bonus plan, prot sharing, and generous benets.

Equal Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

This job posting is expected to close on April 15, 2024.