Skyward Specialty Insurance
|Data Scientist- Machine Learning & AI Solutions
Jacksonville, Florida, US
Summary
Architected, productionized, and monitored machine-learning submission triage solutions across multiple E&S insurance programs, integrating structured underwriting data with signals extracted from emails, loss runs, and submission documents to prioritize accounts by estimated bind likelihood and improve underwriting efficiency.
Highlights
Improved underwriting efficiency by 35% through dynamic quantile-based prioritization, projected to support up to $3.5M in incremental 2026 revenue.
Led development and production enhancement of the ESPR underwriting prioritization model, building CatBoost-based scoring pipelines that classify submissions into actionable A/B/C/D tiers.
Engineered and migrated production scoring infrastructure to Azure SQL/MDSM, designing intake, extraction, feature, and model data layers and implementing reproducible Python/SQL workflows for scoring, model versioning, threshold management, validation, and auditability.
Developed scalable NLP and document-intelligence pipelines using OCR, regex, RAG, and LLM-based extraction to transform unstructured broker correspondence and insurance documents into structured features for downstream ML applications.
Delivered an agentic MCP server-client analytics assistant (EDAbot) that translates natural-language business questions into governed database queries and generates downloadable Excel and PDF outputs, enabling self-service analytics for business users.