Data Scientist: Insurance Analytics and AI Solutions

Hiscox; York and North Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Hiscox UK’s technology team drives the data and analytics agenda for the Retail business, delivering data science solutions in collaborative, agile teams. You will develop MVPs and scale them, partner with stakeholders on decisioning, pricing and monitoring, and own end-to-end model lifecycles from design to deployment.

We seek hands-on data scientists who communicate clearly and enjoy solving business problems with advanced analytics while continuously learning best practices in software

Qualifications

• Experience of data science, advanced analytics or a genuine interest to learn.
• Ability to conduct high quality research in a suitably timely manner working in both independently and in small teams as required by the task.
• Familiarity with version control and other IT delivery tools is required
• Understanding / identifying opportunity to apply machine learning knowledge to solve business problems
• Experience in developing predictive and prescriptive analysis (predictive modelling, machine learning or data mining) used to draw key business insights and clearly articulate findings for target audience
• Exceptional written communications skills and effective presentation skills
• Willingness to learn best practice in software development
• Strong python programming skills
• Experience of TDD (pytest or other testing framework)

Responsibilities

• Apply the data science product lifecycle principles to new projects (Design, exploratory data analysis, building, evaluation, deployment, monitoring and maintenance)
• Contribute to developing production data science models, monitoring their performance, and managing their lifecycle (retraining, optimising and upgrading)
• Work on the end to end data solution including understanding complex business challenges, designing scientific solutions, working large and small data sets (including 3rd party and internal data of a wide variety), using cutting-edge machine learning or statistical modelling techniques to derive insights
• Work collaboratively with data scientists, data engineers and other technical people including pricing teams in order to help support maturation of analytics practice within the organization.
• Write high quality python code using industry best practice for model training and deployment
• Continuous development of knowledge base and experience, including researching new techniques and technologies, communicating this back with the team

Skills

Python

Data science

Machine learning

Research

Communication

Version control

TDD

Education

Graduate or Postgraduate qualification

Tools

TensorFlow

XGBoost

CatBoost

scikit-learn

Pandas

APIs

Job description

Hiscox UK’s technology team drives the data and analytics agenda for the Retail business, delivering data science solutions in collaborative, agile teams. You will develop MVPs and scale them, partner with stakeholders on decisioning, pricing and monitoring, and own end-to-end model lifecycles from design to deployment.

We seek hands-on data scientists who communicate clearly and enjoy solving business problems with advanced analytics while continuously learning best practices in software