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The main responsibility of this position will be to build upon our knowledge from developing flood models for Great Britain, Germany, United States, Japan and Central Europe as we update and expand to more countries. As a hydrologist, you will use the in-house models to simulate flooding events in a stochastic framework to quantify the flooding characteristics of a selected basin or a country. You will work with other hydrologists and hydraulic engineers as well as meteorologists, climate scientists, engineers, software professionals, statisticians, and actuaries to incorporate the latest flood modeling methodologies into cutting-edge flood risk assessment software. Your contributions will help provide our clients in the insurance industry with tools and data that help them make informed decisions about flood risk and flood insurance products.

Main responsibilities, but not limited to:

• Developing and enhancing flood hazard models and the relevant source codes.
• Formulating and implementing hydrologic models in deterministic and probabilistic frameworks.
• Simulating hydrologic responses over a wide range of spatial scales.
• Formulating and implementing a variety of hydrological analytical procedures pertaining to flood frequency analysis and hydrologic modeling.
• Collecting, managing, and analyzing various types of hydro-meteorological data for efficient integration of high-quality data into the modeling process.

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Expertise in catchment hydrology and stochastic hydrology.
• Experience in hydrological model parameter estimation and calibration, data-assimilation and Bayesian methods is desirable
• Good basic knowledge of probability theory and statistics.
• Ability to gather, understand, and critically analyze relevant hydrological and geophysical data from a variety of sources.
• Experience in flood modeling for the specifics of insurance/reinsurance industry would be a significant advantage.
• Solid technical programming skills gained through practical experience (e.g., C/C++, FORTRAN, MATLAB, R, Python, etc.).
• Experience in GIS applications (e.g., ArcMap).
• Proficiency with Windows and Linux operating systems, and other standard applications.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to achieve goals and meet deadlines while working on multiple tasks.
• Highly motivated and self-directed in advancing complex projects.

Education:

• Advanced degree in Hydrology or related field with associated professional experience

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