The Head of AI Center of Excellence is responsible for defining, industrializing, and scaling AI capabilities across the enterprise. This role transversal support of the AI foundations and AI deliveries requiring AI skills.
The AI CoE acts as a delivery accelerator: enabling and supporting business teams to build, deploy, and scale AI solutions efficiently
The role covers the full AI lifecycle supporting the transversal deliveries of AI Office, this includes data, model development, deployment (MLOps/LLMOps), Responsible AI, and value measurement, with a strong focus on industrialization, reuse, and business impact.
Key duties and responsibilities
Approach
The Head of AI Center of Excellence is responsible for managing the resources to support the different AI strategic initiatives driven by AI flagships.
He/She maintains a high level of skills to support industrialization of AI and maintenance of AI models used in different product or service features
Operate under the Agile Framework and is accountable for the quality of the work delivers and ensuring that Core Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineers works respect the AI delivery operating model (documentation process, proper usage of tools, state of the art standards, SDLC, etc.)
Manage the external resources capacity under the budget envelope provided
Allocate effectively resources within squads & projects
Ensure the application of best practices and AI delivery framework in deliveries supported by the AI CoE
Skills
Maintain a high level of skills in adequation with Data & AI platform (Fast learning)
Experience in Industrialization of AI solutions (AI flow, CI/CD, SDLC)
Machine Learning Engineering and Data Science (Model packaging, MLOps)
Cloud usage (K8s, PostgreSQL, storage, on Azure is a plus)
Python (OOP, FastAPI – CRUD)
Required experience & competencies
Soft skills
Can evolve in international context
Required Education
As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying “The Art & Science of Risk,” SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.
Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.
As an international company, our common culture is defined by “The SCOR Way.” Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.
SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.
SCOR, one of the world's largest reinsurers, provides its clients with a diversified and innovative range of solutions to control and manage risk. Using its experience and expertise, “The Art & Science of Risk”, SCOR provides cutting-edge financial solutions, analytics tools and services in all areas related to risk – in Life & Health as well as in P&C.
The reinsurance industry is about combining technical expertise and experience with the developments of science. However many tools we use to conduct our activities (models, databases, pricing tools, reserving tools, and so on), we also need expert judgments and human experience to correctly underwrite. This is what we call the art of underwriting. Reinsurance is a knowledge industry. Expertise is an accumulation variable.
The most advanced tool will never replace the intuition of a seasoned underwriter facing a complex risk. Because at the end of the day, you have to make a decision, to sign, to underwrite. And what we have underwritten, we cannot overwrite - our word is our bond, as is our signature. This dimension of our business, linked to the art of underwriting, is more important than some observers would have people believe.
One way to acquire this art is to share experiences – both good and bad – and to share doubts and questions. Artists always belong to a school, from which they learn their craft.
Like artists, we have to learn, imitate, mimic, and then innovate, in order to find our own style and create our own distinctive work.
