At a Glance
- Tasks: Transform telematics data into impactful features for pricing and underwriting.
- Company: Join Hastings Direct, a leading digital insurance provider with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible working, competitive bonuses, and a comprehensive wellbeing programme.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities for growth and development.
- Why this job: Make a real difference by shaping data-driven solutions that impact millions of customers.
- Qualifications: Advanced SQL skills and experience with large datasets; familiarity with dbt is a plus.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Location: Leicester / Bexhill / London – Hybrid
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 4Cs culture and substantial investment in our people.
Role Purpose: As an Analytics Engineer in the Telematics Engineering team, you’ll play a key role in transforming raw telematics data into high-quality, productionised features that power pricing, underwriting, and data science workstreams. Sitting at the intersection of data engineering and analytics, you’ll design, build, and maintain scalable data models and pipelines that enable teams across Hastings to unlock value from telematics data. You’ll work closely with Data Engineers, Analysts, and Data Scientists, within a modern data platform (Snowflake, Azure, dbt) to deliver high-impact data products.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines to process telematics (sensor/driver behaviour) data.
- Develop and manage feature pipelines to create curated datasets for pricing and modelling use-cases.
- Transform raw data into clean, reliable, and analytics-ready data models using SQL and dbt.
- Own datasets end-to-end, including testing, reliability and documentation.
- Optimise performance of queries and data models within cloud data warehouse environments.
- Support self-service analytics and feature engineering through well-designed data products.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of the Telematics data ecosystem and feature engineering capabilities.
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Advanced SQL skills (complex transformations, performance optimisation) and experience working with large-scale datasets.
- Hands-on experience with dbt (or similar transformation frameworks).
- Experience with version control (Git).
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to data quality.
Desirable:
- Experience working with telematics / IoT / event-stream data.
- Exposure to insurance, pricing, or risk modelling domains.
- Experience with Python and CI/CD practices for data processing and pipeline development.
- Familiarity with cloud data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Azure, Databricks).
How You’ll Work:
- Collaborate to enable teams across the business to build meaningful telematics-derived features.
- Work in an agile setup, contributing to both ad-hoc and strategic initiatives.
- Engage with stakeholders across the business to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Help shape best practices in analytics engineering within telematics.
The interview process involves the below:
- Recruiter screening call.
- Intro with Hiring manager.
- Interview with hiring team – Case study.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. We also welcome applications through the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS).
Benefits: In addition to a competitive salary you will also receive:
- Flexible working – we champion a flexible hybrid working approach.
- Competitive bonus scheme - all colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus.
- Financial wellbeing – life assurance cover, income protection, and matched pension contributions up to 10%.
- Mental wellbeing programme – access to mental health support and resources.
- 25 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, and more.
Join us and you’ll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4Cs. We focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community. If you are interested in any other positions at Hastings Direct, you can view our live vacancy list via our careers page.
Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, we encourage you to be open with us.
Analytics Engineer - Telematics employer: Hastings Direct
Hastings Direct is an exceptional employer for Actuarial Graduates, offering a dynamic work environment in London that fosters professional growth and innovation. With a strong focus on employee well-being, the company provides competitive benefits including flexible working arrangements, a robust bonus scheme, and access to mental health resources. The collaborative culture encourages the development of cutting-edge actuarial skills through hands-on experience with modern tools like Python and AI, making it an ideal place for motivated individuals to launch their careers.
