Analytics Engineer - Telematics

hastingsdirect; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Bonus scheme

Financial wellbeing package

Mental wellbeing support

Job summary

Hastings Direct is a digital insurance provider investing in technology, data and analytics capabilities. The Analytics Engineer - Telematics role sits in the Telematics Engineering team and will transform raw telematics data into productionised features powering pricing, underwriting and data science workstreams.

You’ll work with Data Engineers, Analysts, and Data Scientists on a modern data platform (Snowflake, Azure, dbt) to deliver high-impact data products and impact pricing accuracy and

Qualifications

• Strong SQL skills with complex transformations and large datasets.
• Experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks.
• Proficient with Git version control and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines for telematics data
• Develop feature pipelines for pricing and modelling datasets
• Transform data into analytics-ready models using SQL and dbt
• Own datasets end-to-end with testing and docs
• Optimize query and model performance in cloud warehouses
• Support self-service analytics with well-designed data products
• Contribute to improving Telematics data ecosystem and features

Skills

Advanced SQL

dbt

Git

Data quality

Tools

Snowflake

Azure

Python

CI/CD

Job description

Job Title: Analytics Engineer - Telematics

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.

The fact you're now reading this job advert means we've tempted you to find out more about #lifeatHD. If you like what you see, we hope you'll consider joining our team.

We have high standards and understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they feel they tick every box. If you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we would love to hear from you.

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 ded