Senior Data Scientist

🕒 May 29

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Hastings Direct

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1001 - 5000 employees

👥 B2C

💸 Finance

💰 $1.1G Private equity on 2013-11

B2C • Finance

Hastings Direct is an agile, data- and digitally-focused UK general insurance provider offering a full range of personal products including car, van, bike and home insurance. The company emphasizes digital delivery, pricing and data analytics, and operates as a large consumer-facing insurer with around 4,800 employees and multiple UK offices. Hastings Direct also highlights inclusive workplace practices, customer claims and underwriting services alongside actuarial, fraud, and technology teams.

📋 Description

• Building ML and GLM models for deployment into live pricing, including feature engineering and trialling new modelling approaches. • Build a deep understanding of our price optimisation lifetime value function and contribute to its development. • Develop new experimental pricing approaches, exploring new optimisation approaches, model structures, and automated learning. • Work hand in hand with ML ops and engineering functions to deploy and test new approaches.

🎯 Requirements

• Track record of building, validating, and maintaining pricing models (e.g. GLMs, GAMs, tree‑based models). • Experience in developing new pricing initiatives to make use of new models or data items, challenging the established approaches. • Experience in liaising with multiple stakeholders to effectively frame problems and building solutions with effective commercial outcomes. • Proficiency in Python, SQL, Azure ML, Git, Azure Cloud Services • Keen interest in emerging ML techniques and their commercial value. • Insurance industry experience (desirable). • ML Ops experience (desirable).

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 4Cs performance bonus • Physical wellbeing – Hastings pay for you to receive private medical Insurance (also known as PMI). • Financial wellbeing – 4x your salary with our life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost, and matched pension contributions up to 10% • Mental wellbeing programme – thrive mental health app, colleague assistance programme available 24/7, mental health first aiders, support groups • 27 days annual leave + bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell one of your weeks, access to health care cash back plans, dental plans, discounted health assessments, Cycle to work and tech schemes • Discounted and free onsite facilities, social events throughout the year