Pricing Data Engineer

Location: Sandgate

Insurance Pricing Data Engineer £28,000 - £30,000 per annum Folkestone Hybrid Have you recently graduated with a mathematical, data science or related degree? Why not launch your career in Insurance Pricing here at Saga, the most trusted brand for over 50's Insurance! As a Pricing Data Engineer, you'll play a hands on role in shaping how we price risk and compete in the insurance market.

You'll help deliver, refine, and safeguard the data that powers our pricing models, trading MI, and commercial insight — ensuring every decision is backed by trusted, timely, and well structured information. This is your chance to learn the craft of data engineering in a live pricing environment: ingesting and transforming partner and internal data, validating accuracy, and building the pipelines that underpin our pricing strategy.

You'll collaborate with analysts, actuaries, and trading teams to turn raw data into actionable insight, supporting fair, profitable, and data driven outcomes for our customers. We work in a hybrid way at Saga, both at home and in the office. This role requires you to be working from our Folkestone office at least twice a week, allowing us to collaborate and share success as a business.

Package Description At Saga we recognise that our people make us special. We believe our colleagues deserve rewards for the excellence they demonstrate every single day, that's why we have put together an amazing benefits package for all colleagues. BENEFITS AVAILABLE FOR THIS ROLE: 25 days holiday  bank holidays Option to purchase additional leave - 5 extra days Pension scheme matched up to 10% Company performance related annual bonus - Up to 5% Life assurance policy on joining us, 4 x salary Wellbeing programme Colleague discounts including family discounts on cruises, holidays and insurance Range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies Enhanced maternity and paternity leave Grandparents leave Income protection Access to Saga Academy, our bespoke learning platform Main Responsibilities As our new Pricing Engineer, you will process and maintain data pipelines that ingest data from internal systems and partner feeds, ensuring completeness, timeliness, and accuracy.

Other accountabilities will include:
• Processing and maintaining data pipelines that ingest data from internal systems and partner feeds, ensuring completeness, timeliness, and accuracy.
• Running quality checks, identifying anomalies, and supporting remediation to maintain trusted pricing and trading datasets.
• Building and maintaining SQL/Python transformations that prepare data for pricing models, MI, and operational reporting.
• Assisting analysts and pricing colleagues with bespoke data extracts, exploratory analysis, and insight generation.
• Helping diagnose data or system issues affecting pricing, working with IT, partners, and internal teams to resolve root causes.
• Creating clear documentation for data processes, pipelines, and datasets to support team knowledge and governance
• Working closely with Pricing, Trading, Product and Data Governance teams to ensure alignment on data needs and standards
• Contributing ideas to improve data quality, automation, and efficiency across pricing data workflows

The Ideal Candidate You're starting out in data and keen to apply your skills from your degree (mathmaticla or data science) in a real pricing environment. You'll have some experience with SQL, Python, working with structured datasets and you're curious about how data shapes insurance pricing and trading performance.
• Ability to write basic queries, joins, filters, and aggregations
• Exposure to Python for data manipulation (Pandas), automation, or simple scripts
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