Data Scientist

Skilled developers, data science and security professionals remain in high demand, putting increased pressure on organizations to offer the benefits, culture and work opportunities that will keep them on board.

Organizations are struggling to fill critical IT, analytics and security jobs, especially in the advanced skills and management ranks. The job is made harder by job seekers that only want consultant roles.

CIOs are now pulling in quarter-million dollar paychecks, while the top salaries start at $150,000 and are all geared toward management roles.

Other high-demand roles include application programmers, business system analysts and database administrators.

Britain’s largest insurer is benefiting from an expanding middle class and growing insurance coverage in Asia, where it gets about a third of its earnings.

It's crucial that insurers develop clear career-path options for these valuable staff, because there will be lots of competition for the skills.

Software and application developers were cited as the number one most in-demand job role by employers last month, according to the latest BLS numbers.

Business users can more easily learn to use and benefit from modern analytics and business intelligence tools, enabling them to take the lead role in this area by 2019, says Gartner.

Moves from Allstate units Answer Financial and Arity, as well as MassMutual, illustrate increasing value of analytics expertise outside core insurance products.

Several top colleges and universities are offering courses and concentrations in applying data to the sector.

IT leaders must be prepared to groom new hires to help them understand and unlock business value from analytics, says BCBS exec.

More than half of tech workers polled by Spiceworks said that constant learning is the most important career-boost move they can and will make.

Effective managers are analytical leaders who are adaptable and possess systematic and methodological ways to achieve results.

These technology skills have shown a basically steady, sustained growth performance stretching back to early 2010, says compensation analyst David Foote.

Fifty-one percent expect a raise from their current employer while 21 percent also expect a promotion.

Technology and information management dominate the most wanted hires this year, with seven of the top 10 in the IT and analytics fields.

Data scientists remain among the most sought-after of all workers, and that translates into very healthy salary ranges for several key job roles.

It’s critical that today's students understand how analytics is evolving and how artificial intelligence can help solve real world problems.

Nabil Hachem joins the insurer from the Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research.

For companies serious about cutting edge data science functions, this role is key.