Pricing Automation Engineer

** Pricing Automation Engineer
***
* Location:

** Leicester & Bexhill Hybrid - Expectation to come into the office once a week
** 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 a Finance team, we're doing exactly the same – building a market leading finance technology platform, investing in our team and our approach to leadership development, with a real focus on commercially adding value to the business.

The fact you’re now reading this job advert means we’ve tempted you to find out more about #lifeat

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

We have high standards and understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they feel they tick every box. If you’re excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you’re not 100% sure, we would love to hear from you.
** Team Overview
** Our mission is to create the leading suite of exploratory and data products in the industry - empowering our pricing, data and analytics (PDA) community to move faster and deliver more, with major commercial impact.

Skywalker is our automated trading platform and is at the heart of what we do. It maximises underwriting pricing efficiency and hosts a growing suite of tooling that’s being adopted across the wider business. We're expanding Skywalker’s capabilities and looking for curious, motivated people to help support the PDA community in getting the most out of it.

This role is open to junior and mid-level applicants, including graduates, provided you meet the technical requirements and bring a learning mindset.
** Job Details
** Our team works at the cutting edge of technology and automation, and we aspire to drive business success through innovation and smart technology. We believe great work happens when you’re supported, trusted, and doing something meaningful. That’s why this role offers:
* Learning:
Whether you're early in your career or branching out, we support your future - through mentoring, pair programming, and on-the-job learning through a well-connected community that values delivery, growth and enjoyment.
* Autonomy:
You'll have the freedom to solve real business problems in your own way

* Purpose:

You'll help streamline and scale pricing and underwriting across the business and be a key contributor, collaborating at the intersection of pricing, modelling, engineering & more
* Specialty:
You’ll build niche expertise in pricing automation, underwriting workflows and trading infrastructure

Clear expectations:
In your first 3-6 months, you’ll:
* Prototype new enhancements to our Skywalker toolkit
* Contribute to adoption and rollout of Skywalker tools across new teams
* Automate key underwriting data pipelines
** What skills you’ll need
*** Strong technical capability with Python, SQL, and version‑control tools such as Git/Git Hub
* Ability to interpret complex data, identify patterns, and generate meaningful insights
* Clear and engaging communicator who can confidently share information in any setting
* Collaborative mindset with a willingness to support others and work across multiple work streams
* Curious, creative problem‑solver who enjoys exploring how things work and prototyping new ideas
* Commercially aware and accountable, with a drive to improve processes and challenge the status quo
** The interview process:
** Our interview process involves the below:

* Recruiter screening call
* At home online assessment
* Virtual technical and competency Interview
** What we offer
** 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…