Senior Data Scientist - Insurance

Job Title: Technical Pricing Manager / Senior Data Scientist

Location: Bexhill/Leicester/London - with a willingness to travel to Bexhill and Leicester on occasion

Welcome to Hastings Direct

We’re a digital insurance provider with a clear strategy to become the best and biggest player in the UK market. As a company, we’ve made huge investments in our technology, pricing, data and analytics capabilities over the past few years, along with nurturing our 4

Cs culture and substantial investment in our people. And as an underwriting and pricing team, we're doing exactly the same – building a market leading pricing technology platform, investing in our team and our approach to leadership development, with a real focus on commercially adding value to the business.

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HD. If you like what you see, we hope you'll consider joining our team.

We've invested beyond Motor Insurance. We have a dedicated Pricing and Underwriting team to deliver the ambitious strategy we have for our Home Insurance product.

This effort has the full support of the business, benefits from a state-of-the-art tech stack and inputs from the entire Actuarial and Data Science (AnDS) community at Hastings, as such it’s an extremely exciting time to join the team.

To build upon the foundations and early successes of the recently formed Home team we are looking for an experienced Technical Pricing Manager / Senior Data Scientist with strong programming skills and a passion for data.

This candidate will fuel our ongoing development of the technical models that are critical to the next stage of our commercial agenda.

As a Technical Pricing Manager / Senior Data Scientist in the Home Underwriting team, you will be reporting to the Home AnDS lead, working closely with the Data, Analytical and ML Engineering teams.

You will play a pivotal role in the development and deployment of machine learning models and data science solutions to extract the crucial predictive insight that underpins all our technical pricing and helps maintain our competitive edge.

You will provide strategic guidance and tooling to benefit the wider Pricing, Data and Analytics community and support data-driven innovation.

• Developing, analysing, and overseeing the implementation of advanced statistical and machine learning models into live pricing.

• Developing tools and solutions to support the management of our risk portfolio.

• Stretching the team’s capabilities in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and use of Cloud technologies.

• Working cross-functionally with the wider Underwriting team to develop the Home data landscape.

• Engineering powerful new features to be deployed into our pricing algorithms.

• Advocating for data science and software development best practices.

• Engaging commercial stakeholders to gather detailedbusinessrequirements and coordinating project activities.

• Proven track record of delivering commercial value using supervised machine learning techniques.

• Advanced Python programmer, and experience with data manipulation and analysis libraries (e.g., Num Py, Pandas, scikit-learn)

• Advanced knowledge of data science technologies including tooling and platforms.

• Proficient in SQL.

• Proficient with Git.

• Ability to drive projects from initiation to completion.

• Keen interest in emerging Machine Learning techniques.

• Desirable:
  Experience with Cloud deployments (e.g. Azure/AWS/GCP)

Recruiter screening call

1st Round – Intro call with Hiring manager

2nd Round – Case study round followed by call with Hiring leader

Join us and you’ll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4

Cs. We focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community. As one of our colleagues, you’ll be helping to drive our growth, so in return, we’ll give you all the support, training and development you need. Not to mention plenty of recognition and rewards, and the scope to voice your ideas and put them into practice.

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