Senior Data Scientist - Telematics

Job Title:

Senior Data Scientist
- Telematics

Location:

Bexhill/Leicester/London/ - Hybrid

Welcome to Hastings Direct

We're a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans to become the best and biggest in the UK market. We've made huge investments in our pricing and data capabilities over the past few years, along with nurturing our 4

Cs culture.

We provide insurance for over four million customers, but we know there's even bigger opportunity out there - our Pricing, Data and Analytics community value curiosity, collaboration and constructive challenge.

We are always looking for new ideas and diverse perspectives to question established thinking and drive meaningful change. Great pricing is built on trust, innovation and precision, so our aim is to ensure customers receive a fair and accurate price based on their individual risk, supporting fair outcomes, while delivering sustainable and profitable growth for our company.

Pricing is more than just a number - it's a strategic capability. At the heart of Hastings is deep risk insight - continually improving how we assess, segment and price risk through data and analytics.

We are looking for a Data Scientist with experience in developing solutions to novel problems and a desire to drive innovation in the insurance industry.

The Data Scientist will design and build cutting-edge features and predictive models that generate value across Hastings products. You will also use these models and data assets to improve risk selection both at point-of-quote and in-life.

This role is within our new Telematics Data Value team, comprising data scientists, analysts, and engineers. We work to turn our telematics data into underwriting advantage - which enables market-beating prices for customers.

• Develop best in-class ML models to predict claims outcomes, fraud and other risk KPIs, including developing novel features from raw telematics data.
• Collaborate with ML Engineers to deploy ML models.
• Monitor deployed ML models and link performance to commercial and customer outcomes.
• Present your work to Operational and Commercial stakeholders.
• Explore new technologies and contribute to setting team's best practices.

• Proficiency in Python and experience with ML libraries for building and deploying machine learning solutions in cloud environments.
• Experience using SQL.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate across teams of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, ML Engineers, Operational and Commercial stakeholders.

• Technical competence complemented by broader business understanding.
• A problem-solver who enjoys building creative solutions to complex real-world challenges.
• Able to work independently, with support where needed, and collaboratively.
• Curious, willing to challenge received wisdom and explore emerging techniques.
• We recognise that no candidate will meet every requirement. If you're excited about the role and feel you could add value, we'd love to hear from you.

• Recruiter screening call
• Intro with hiring leader
• Case study round
  - Technical / Competency

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.

As a Disability Confident employer, we're committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive - what this means to you is if you're applying for a job with us, you'll have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment journey. We also welcome applications through the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). For more information on the DCS, please visit our inclusive business page on our careers website.

in addition to a competitive salary and £5k car allowance you will also receive...

• Flexible working - we champion a flexible hybrid working approach - please speak to your recruiter to discuss in more detail
• Competitive bonus scheme - all colleagues are eligible for our annual 4
  
  Cs performance bonus
• Physical wellbeing - as a Band 4 colleague, Hastings pay for you to receive private medical Insurance (also known as PMI). This gives you flexibility and convenience to see a specialist or consultant and allows you to decide when and where you will be seen
• Financial wellbeing - as well as providing you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost, and matched pension contributions up to 10%, we are proud to provide you with an award winning package which includes - discounts, cashback, free independent mortgage advice and free access to financial wellbeing support
• Mental wellbeing programme - we have the thrive mental health app, our colleague assistance programme…