Senior Data Scientist - Telematics in Bexhill-on-Sea

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 4Cs 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 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.

Key Accountabilities:

• 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.

Essential skills/experience:

• 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.

Personal Attributes:

• 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.

Interview Process:

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

What we will give you:

• 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. 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).

Benefits:

• In addition to a competitive salary and £5k car allowance 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.
• Physical wellbeing – Hastings pay for you to receive private medical Insurance (PMI).
• Financial wellbeing – providing you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost, and matched pension contributions up to 10%.
• Mental wellbeing programme – we have the thrive mental health app, our colleague assistance programme available 24/7, and support groups.
• 27 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.

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.