Sr Health Actuary, Benefits, Benefits Experience & Technology (BXT)

$143,300 - $247,600/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

10,001+ employees

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

The Health Actuary role at Amazon involves supporting the health actuarial team in managing and innovating global benefit programs for over 1.5 million employees and their families. This position requires collaboration with benefit managers, financial teams, and clinical experts to develop models, cost projections, and evaluate program offerings, ensuring high-quality healthcare access and affordability.

Responsibilities

• Support modeling and cost projections for US and International benefits.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert on insurance renewals, healthcare trends, claims analysis, and industry benchmarks.
• Implement metrics and processes to track and measure healthcare quality.
• Design reports and dashboards to support tracking experience, outliers, and surfacing insights across healthcare cost, quality, and utilization.
• Detect, research, and propose strategies to address gaps and anomalies.
• Translate technical and financial results for a non-technical audience.
• Design and implement program evaluations for vendor solutions and benefit programs.
• Develop models and pricing analysis for medical outlier claims.
• Review and recommend plan designs, plan offering strategies, and pricing for benefits.

Requirements

• 6+ years of proven, technical experience in health actuarial work
• Experience producing clear and effective writing that informs and persuades
• Experience with medical claims data (e.g., DRG, CPT, ICD-10 diagnosis codes, etc.)
• Associate of the Society of Actuaries (ASA)
• 5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
• 4+ years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modeling and communication experience

Nice-to-haves

• Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA)
• Excellent at explaining actuarial and technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Comfortable leading complex projects with cross-departmental resources and solving open-ended business problems with innovation
• Experience with value-based care and alternative medical payment methodologies
• Experience with insurance captives
• Experience with international benefits programs
• Experience as a leader and mentor on a data science team
• Experience managing data pipelines

Benefits

• Full range of medical benefits
• Financial benefits including equity and sign-on payments
• Comprehensive employee benefits package