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About the Role
Leads catastrophe risk analytics for Ryan Alternative Risks, applying deep technical skill to novel, structurally complex risks. The role sits at the intersection of modeling science, data engineering, and underwriting strategy, owning technical execution, tooling, pipelines, and automation, while building and managing the team that delivers it. Translates portfolio-level model output into underwriting guidance, sets technical standards, and represents catastrophe risk analytics to leadership.
Responsibilities
- Build, manage, and mentor a team blending catastrophe modeling analysts and technical/automation developers.
- Mentor, guide, and train portfolio modeling managers across the team.
- Set the technical roadmap and priorities for cat modeling, data engineering, and reporting tooling.
- Serve as the primary bridge between catastrophe modeling analytics and underwriting leadership.
- Represent catastrophe risk analytics in executive and reinsurance discussions.
- Champion Ryan Alternative Risks' Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) mandate.
- Maintain and grow pricing capability across the full range of ART structures.
- Apply catastrophe model output to structure and price ART instruments.
- Advise underwriting on the catastrophe risk implications of ART structures.
- Coordinate Analyze Re-related portfolio rollups.
- Oversee delivery of portfolio and modeling outputs to external carriers and reinsurance partners.
- Partner with reinsurance and ceded-re contacts to align rollup structures and delivery cadence.
- Lead research initiatives that extend advanced analytics capabilities within the catastrophe modeling domain.
- Evaluate emerging modeling science, vendor model updates, and academic/industry research.
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement.
- Own vendor and platform strategy for RMS and AIR.
- Lead evaluation and assessment of tools and vendors.
- Build the business case for new tooling or vendor changes.
- Oversee catastrophe modeling using RMS and AIR.
- Direct the production of portfolio-level metrics.
- Set standards for exposure data preparation, validation, and cleansing.
- Lead catastrophe event response for the underwriting organization.
- Direct the design of ETL pipelines and data pipelines.
- Oversee development of automated AIR/RMS workflow utilities and reusable reporting assets.
- Champion adoption of Azure Databricks and cloud-based analytics.
- Ensure data quality controls, QA dashboards, and documentation/SOPs are in place.
Requirements
- 8+ years of progressive experience in catastrophe modeling, portfolio risk analytics, or cat-modeling-adjacent data engineering.
- Prior people leadership or team-lead experience managing other modeling professionals or managers.
- Deep hands-on proficiency in RMS and/or AIR Touchstone — exposure preparation, batch processing, results extraction, and interpretation of EP curves and loss tables.
- Strong SQL skills.
- Demonstrated experience directing or building automation with Python, R, VBA, and/or Alteryx.
- Track record of translating catastrophe model output into underwriting or portfolio management decisions.
- Proven ability to lead teams through real-time catastrophe event response.
- Experience coordinating portfolio rollups and external deliverables to carriers or reinsurance partners.
- Demonstrated experience partnering cross-functionally with groups such as Capital Management, Pricing, Reserving, or Data Engineering.
- Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting technical analysis to underwriting and executive stakeholders.
- Experience pricing or modeling Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) structures — parametric triggers, facultative and treaty reinsurance, and/or multi-year contracts.
- Experience with Analyze Re or comparable portfolio roll-up/aggregation platforms.
- Experience with Azure Databricks, PySpark, and Delta Lake / data lakehouse patterns.
- Knowledge of reinsurance structures and portfolio risk metrics (PML, AAL, TVaR).
- Familiarity with geospatial data handling and mapping (geopandas, shapefiles, spatial joins).
- Experience with version control (Git) and SDLC practices (branching, code review, release management).
- Prior experience leading vendor evaluations for modeling platforms, peril models, or analytics infrastructure.
- Background in or exposure to applied research within catastrophe modeling or a related quantitative discipline.
Skills
- Catastrophe Modeling
- Risk Analytics
- Data Engineering
- Underwriting Strategy
- RMS
- AIR
- Parametric Structures
- Facultative Reinsurance
- Treaty Reinsurance
- Multi-year Contracts
- SQL
- Python
- R
- VBA
- Alteryx
- Azure Databricks
- PySpark
- Delta Lake
- Geospatial Data Handling
- Git
- SDLC
Experience Level
- Senior Director
- 8+ years of progressive experience
- Prior people leadership or team-lead experience
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000.00 - $175,000.00 annually
Benefits
- Paid time off for company holidays, vacation, sick and personal days
- Paid parental leave
- Mental health services
About the Company
- Ryan Alternative Risks is an Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) organization built around parametric structures, facultative and treaty reinsurance, and multi-year contracts.
- Ryan Specialty seeks to offer our employees a comprehensive and best-in-class benefits package that helps them — and their family members — achieve their physical, financial, and emotional well-being goals.
- For additional information on Ryan Specialty Total Rewards, visit our website https://benefits.ryansg.com/.
Equal Opportunity
- Ryan Specialty is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We are committed to building and sustaining a diverse workforce throughout the organization.
- Our vision is an inclusive and equitable workplace where all employees are valued for and evaluated on their performance and contributions.
- Differences in race, creed, color, religious beliefs, physical or mental capabilities, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, and many other characteristics bring together varied perspectives and add value to the service we provide our clients, trading partners, and communities.
- This policy extends to all aspects of our employment practices, including but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, discipline, firing, promoting, transferring, compensation, benefits, training, leaves of absence, and other terms, conditions, and benefits of employment.
- We provide individuals with disabilities reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable law.
- Please contact us to request an accommodation at HR@Ryansg.com.