Analytics Engineer (Full-time) in Bexhill-on-Sea

Location: Leicester / Bexhill / London – Hybrid

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this position.

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. 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.

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. These features directly influence pricing accuracy, risk assessment and the fairness of outcomes for millions of customers.

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:

• 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 – 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.

Benefits: In addition to a competitive salary 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 4Cs performance bonus.
• 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 available 24/7, our own in-house mental health first aiders, support groups and a dedicated team to make sure we are covering your needs.
• There's more! – 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell one of your weeks, access to our 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 and much more.

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. Our 4Cs principles are simple: we believe by creating the right culture for our colleagues and giving them the right tools to do their job, we'll deliver good outcomes for every customer, helping us to grow the company profitably and sustainably and allowing us to invest in the communities we serve.

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. Please also note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes credit and criminal record checks.

Type: Full time