Insurance Analytics Actuary

Insurance Analytics Actuary

Location - London with hybrid working as per departmental requirements (currently a MINIMUM of 40% (2 days per week))

LCP is an award-winning actuarial and analytics consultancy providing market‑leading capabilities and advice across pensions and financial services, energy, health, and analytics. We use powerful analytics fused with human expertise to shape a more positive future.

We’re looking for a Actuary in our Insurance Analytics Team. You’ll sit at the intersection of actuarial practice, product design, and software development – helping drive forward our flagship SaaS platform, LCP Insur Sight. You’ll use your general insurance knowledge to make sure new features work the way actuaries really need them to; do software development in Python; collaborate with developers and data scientists;

and join conversations with clients to shape what we build next. This is a unique opportunity to apply actuarial training in a hands‑on software product role, build new skills in technology and agile delivery, and see your work impact hundreds of billions of pounds of insurance business.

Insur Sight is trusted to assess over £200bn of non‑life insurance business. We are expanding our team to serve a growing client base and to deliver on an exciting product roadmap. This role will suit someone who enjoys problem‑solving, wants to be close to product innovation, and is excited to use their actuarial knowledge to directly shape a market‑leading product. Our team currently consists of:

• 4 C# developers (including one lead developer)
• 2 Python developers
• 2 Actuarial data scientists
• 2 Front end developers
• 1 Dev Ops and site reliability engineer
• 2 QA Engineers
• 1 Product manager

You will have the benefit of the guidance of our actuarial data scientists, Python developer and product manager, but also the opportunity to take ownership of your work. This is a role for someone who wants to use their actuarial knowledge to shape how technology is used in actuarial work.

• Support the actuarial review and sign‑off of new features and enhancements
• Assist with Python development of key Insur Sight features and resolution of bugs
• Assist with testing of new features and bug fixes. In particular, using your actuarial knowledge to identify likely edge cases and real‑world user workflows and working with the QA engineers and wider IC team to carry out the testing
• Collaborate with QA engineers to help them develop their actuarial understanding and delegate tests effectively to them
• Help develop test frameworks and reusable actuarial test cases to help us deliver new features more efficiently, including using Python to automate aspects of testing
• Log and communicate issues clearly to developers via Azure Dev Ops Boards. Apply actuarial judgement to assess the severity and priority of bugs
• Participate in feature design discussions with clients, product managers, and developers
• Act as the "voice of the actuary" within delivery teams
• Collaborate with actuaries in the wider insurance consulting team as the Insur Sight expert on consulting and transformation projects using Insur Sight

• Part‑qualified actuary (or equivalent actuarial experience in non‑life insurance)
• Excellent understanding of general insurance reserving
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail and curiosity to test boundaries
• Python experience, or desire to learn
• Clear communicator, able to translate actuarial concepts into practical feedback for developers
• Comfortable working in an agile product team
• Interest in technology and innovation in insurance
• (Bonus) Prior exposure to testing, QA, or UAT processes

• A rare opportunity to apply actuarial knowledge in a fast‑growing product setting
• A varied role spanning all areas of software development including product design, coding, testing and interaction with users
• Opportunity to broaden your skillset beyond that of a traditional actuary through close collaboration with developers, data scientists, and product leaders
• Support for actuarial study and professional development

• Product management - Gain direct experience shaping features,…