Data Strategy Co-op - College Program 2025
MMC

Time Commitment: Jan - June 2025 (~40 hour commitment per week)

Position Summary:

The Co-Op role within the Data Strategy group at Guy Carpenter ("GC") provides an opportunity to contribute to the design, analysis and facilitation of data-centric work streams across multiple innovative projects at one of the world's largest and most respected risk management and reinsurance firms. The Data Strategy group has a "start-up style" mandate and internal consulting role (within a $2 billion company) to quickly and efficiently enhance the acquisition, storage, analysis, fidelity, and monetization of massive amounts of client, internal, and third-party data across the Guy Carpenter organization.

As part of the Data Strategy group, this role will work with data analysts, scientists, data engineers, product managers, and stakeholders from other internal groups and will gain exciting real-world software engineering and data manipulation experience within a thriving group. He/she/they will participate in increasing the efficiency of the data collection and analysis process across GC and running analyses on various quantitative and qualitative subjects.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and deploy custom data pipelines powering machine learning algorithms, insights generation, client benchmarking tools, business intelligence dashboards, reporting and new data products.

• Leverage multiple large datasets to drive revenues via the development of new products with the Data Strategy team, as well as the enhanced delivery of existing products

• Consume data from a variety of sources (relational DBs, APIs, NetApp and other cloud storage, FTPs) & formats (Excel, CSV, XML, parquet, unstructured))

• Construct and maintain data pipelines between internal/external sources and the data lake and implement modern quality assurance practices including automated validation with frameworks like dbt or Great Expectations.

• Participate in development standards across the team through code reviews, unit/integration testing, and monitoring

• Perform exploratory data analysis and/or develop or enhance machine-learning models to support Data Strategy products.

What We Are Looking For:

• Pursuit of Masters or Bachelor's degree in a technical field (computer science, data science or related quantitative field mathematics etc.) or a demonstrated ability to learn new software and analytical concepts quickly.

• Strong academic record in major and work experience is more important than the field of study.

• Excellent verbal and writing skills for complex communications with Guy Carpenter colleagues at all levels of the organization

• Exposure to technologies and programming languages such as Python, R, SQL, SKLearn, machine learning

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Prior experience with:

• software best practices including DRY coding, unit & integration testing, documentation, etc.
• modern containerized deployment technologies (Docker)
• big-data processing technologies like Spark
• developing in a modern, agile SDLC environment (dev/qc/prod environments with CI/CD, etc.)
• using a cloud environment (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• consuming REST APIs
• Strong analytical skills and intellectual curiosity as demonstrated through academic experience or work assignments
• Experience working in an Agile environment to facilitate the quick and effective fulfillment of group goals
• Experience with risk evaluation modeling and/or building data products
• Good interpersonal skills for establishing and maintaining good internal relationships, working well as part of a team and for presentations contribute to both technical and non-technical discussions
• Strong emphasis on a desire to learn quickly and add value to team initiatives

The applicable hourly rate for this role is $30.00.

What's next

Application Instructions:

• We are hiring in multiple locations. As you are filling out your application, you'll have the opportunity to select your desired location. Should you have interest in multiple locations, your recruiter will work with you to make those connections should that be necessary.
• When creating your application, please use your permanent home address and use your personal email address rather than your school email address.
  

First Round Interviews:

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
• If selected, first-round interviews consist of an on-demand digital video interview through the HireVue platform.
• Further timing and instructions will be provided at that time.

Consider watching Max Aronchick's reflection on his early days at Guy Carpenter - Building an InsurTech Career | Ep. 5 | Careers That Matter - YouTube

About Guy Carpenter:

Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC, a leading global risk and reinsurance specialist, has over a 90-year history of providing integrated solutions to the (re)insurance industry. With over 2,300 professionals in more than 50 offices around the world, Guy Carpenter delivers a powerful combination of broking expertise, strategic advisory services and industry-leading analytics to help our clients achieve profitable growth. As our clients' most trusted and valuable reinsurance broker and strategic advisor, we leverage our intellectual capital to anticipate and solve for a range of emerging strategic business challenges and opportunities. We embrace a culture that celebrates and promotes the many backgrounds, heritages and perspectives of our colleagues and clients. Visit www.guycarpenter.com for more information and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @GuyCarpenter

Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC and its separately incorporated operating entities around the world are part of Marsh & McLennan Companies, a publicly held company (ticker symbol: MMC).

Marsh & McLennan Companies offers competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits and programs including: health and welfare, tuition assistance, 401K, employee assistance program, domestic partnership benefits, career mobility, employee network groups, volunteer opportunities, and other programs. For more information about our company, please visit us at: http://www.mmc.com/. We embrace a culture that celebrates and promotes the many backgrounds, heritages and perspectives of our colleagues and clients. For more information, please visit us at: www.mmc.com/diversity.

Marsh & McLennan Companies and its Affiliates are EOE Minority/Female/Disability/Vet/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity employers.

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