Lead Pricing Engineer - Rating Platform & Automation in Bexhill-on-Sea

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Pricing Engineer to drive the development, optimisation, and governance of our underwriting pricing capabilities and rating platforms. You will lead a team of pricing engineers responsible for designing and implementing rating changes within our in-house pricing and rating platform. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with ownership of platform standards, code quality, automation, and delivery across multiple lines of business.

You will work closely with underwriting, actuarial, data, ML engineering and QA teams to ensure pricing changes are built correctly, tested effectively, and released with confidence. You will also shape how pricing engineering is done—evolving platform tooling, automation, and ways of working to improve quality, scalability, and resilience of pricing delivery across the organisation.

As part of this role, you will help evolve how pricing engineering operates over time, introducing modern engineering practices, intelligent automation, and the responsible use of AI where it adds clear value. The ideal candidate is a strong engineer and people leader, comfortable writing and reviewing complex Python code, coaching engineers and analysts through peer review and technical guidance, supporting QA through effective test design, and influencing stakeholders across technical and non-technical teams.

• Lead discussions and collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop optimised solutions for pricing implementations, enhancing performance and efficiency while understanding business requirements.
• Drive the adoption of modern engineering techniques and intelligent automation, including AI-assisted development and testing practices, into production and day-to-day pricing delivery where appropriate.
• Lead and collaborate on projects to ensure seamless integration of new capabilities across multiple lines of business, proactively addressing obstacles from early development through delivery.
• Design, develop, and maintain pricing algorithms using expert-level Python skills, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and high standards of quality and control.
• Lead and conduct thorough testing of pricing changes before deployment, identifying errors and ensuring accurate and effective implementation.
• Lead pre-release activities, including code reviews, testing and preparing changes for release to ensure pricing updates are implemented accurately.
• Maintain strong communication and organisational skills to manage multiple initiatives and report progress clearly and consistently.
• Develop comprehensive documentation for implementations, strategies, and data pipelines, ensuring they are well-governed, transparent and compliant with internal controls.
• Strategically manage resources across multiple lines of business to maximise value, efficiency, and delivery capacity.
• Lead and mentor pricing engineers, establishing a Centre of Excellence to provide technical guidance, support, and best practices in pricing implementation and coding.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in software engineering, with exposure to ML engineering or advanced analytics environments.
• Expert-level Python skills, with experience developing and maintaining complex pricing algorithms or decision logic.
• Proven experience leading AI-assisted engineering practices, including hands-on use of LLM-based tools to support development, testing, validation, and documentation, with clear ownership of standards, controls, and governance for production use.
• Practical experience working in Azure cloud environments, using version control systems (e.g. Git/GitHub), and operating CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with SQL and experience working with data visualisation or analysis techniques.
• Strong stakeholder-management and influencing skills, with the ability to balance technical, commercial, and governance considerations.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complex pricing and engineering challenges and deliver robust solutions.
• Experience delivering complex initiatives in Agile environments, using approaches such as Scrum, Kanban, BDD, TDD, or Extreme Programming.

• Recruiter screening call
• 1st Round – Intro call with Hiring manager
• 2nd Round – Case study round

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. 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. 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 4Cs performance bonus
• Physical wellbeing – as a Band 4 colleague, Hastings pay for you to receive private medical Insurance (PMI).
• Financial wellbeing – 4x salary life assurance, income protection, matched pension contributions up to 10%, discounts, cashback, mortgage advice and financial wellbeing support
• Mental wellbeing – Thrive mental health app, 24/7 colleague assistance programme, in-house mental health first aiders, support groups
• There’s more – 27 days annual leave + bank holidays, cycle to work, health plans, social events, and more.

Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status. Please note we have a thorough referencing process including credit and criminal record checks. If you require any reasonable adjustments during recruitment, we encourage you to be open with us. Our recruitment team is here to provide support for a fair and accessible experience for all.