Gate and Barrier Automation Engineer/Access Control Engineer

Hastings Group; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider in the UK is looking for a skilled Pricing Automation Engineer to enhance their Skywalker platform. This role involves supporting the pricing, data, and analytics community, with responsibilities including scripting automation in Python and creating SQL database queries. Ideal candidates will demonstrate strong communication skills and be highly analytical, helping streamline underwriting processes. This position offers flexible hybrid working and various benefits focused on employee wellbeing.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible hybrid working

Annual 4Cs performance bonus

Financial wellbeing support

Mental wellbeing programme

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Health and dental plans

Qualifications

• Experience with Python for scripting and automation.
• Strong ability to write SQL queries and join data.
• Familiarity with Git for version control.

Responsibilities

• Support pricing automation and decision-making tools.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance the Skywalker platform.
• Prototype new enhancements for automation processes.

Skills

Python – scripting, automation or light data wrangling

SQL – confident with queries and joins

Git & GitHub – branching, pull requests, code reviews

Commercial awareness – experience with pricing, market dynamics, underwriting

Tools

ML-specific Python libraries (pandas, scikit-learn, xgboost)

Big data tooling (Snowflake/snowpark, pyspark)

Cloud computing – especially Azure

Job description

Pricing Automation Engineer – Hastings Direct

Job Title: Pricing Automation Engineer
Location: London / Leicester / Bexhill
Regrettably we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

Role Overview

Our mission is to create the leading suite of exploratory and data products in the industry – empowering our pricing, data and analytics (PDA) community to move faster and deliver more, with major commercial impact. Skywalker is our automated trading platform and is at the heart of what we do. It maximises underwriting pricing efficiency and hosts a growing suite of tooling that is being adopted across the wider business. We’re expanding Skywalker’s capabilities and looking for curious, motivated people to help support the PDA community in getting the most out of it.

Why This Might Excite You

• Learning – we support your future through mentoring, pair programming, and on‑the‑job learning within a well‑connected community.
• Autonomy – you’ll have the freedom to solve real business problems in your own way.
• Purpose – you’ll help streamline and scale pricing and underwriting across the business, collaborating at the intersection of pricing, modelling, engineering & more.
• Specialty – build niche expertise in pricing automation, underwriting workflows and trading infrastructure.
• Clear expectations – prototype new enhancements to our Skywalker toolkit, contribute to adoption and rollout of Skywalker tools across new teams, automate key underwriting data pipelines.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Python – scripting, automation or light data wrangling.
• SQL – confident with queries and joins.
• Git & GitHub – branching, pull requests, code reviews.
• Commercial awareness – experience with pricing, market dynamics, underwriting or good instinct for business impact.

Personal Traits

• Accountable – own problems and challenge the status quo.
• Brilliant communicator – engage and trade information clearly in any setting.
• Collaborative – help others get the most out of Skywalker.
• Responsive – context‑switch comfortably across multiple workstreams.
• Lifelong learner – seek growth with and without direction.
• Curious – explore how things work and improve them.
• Creative – prototype or hack to learn quickly.
• Optimistic – believe change is possible and worth pursuing.
• Highly analytical – interpret complex data sets to identify patterns, trends and actionable insights.

Bonus Round

• Experience with automation of processes/pipelines for data, analytics or operations.
• ML‑specific Python libraries (pandas, scikit‑learn, xgboost).
• Big data tooling (Snowflake/snowpark, pyspark).
• Cloud computing – especially Azure, where we deploy key parts of our platform.

The Interview Process

• Recruiter screening call.
• Take‑home assessment.
• Interview with the hiring team.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Flexible hybrid working.
• Annual 4Cs performance bonus.
• Financial wellbeing – matching pension contributions, life assurance, income protection, etc.
• Mental wellbeing programme – Thrive mental health app, in‑house first aiders, support groups.
• Annual leave – 25 days + bank holidays.
• Health, dental, cycle‑to‑work and tech schemes.
• Inclusive, supportive culture focusing on the 4Cs (culture, customers, company, community).

Gate and Barrier Automation Engineer / Access Control Engineer – UK Leading Fencing Contractor

Job Title: Gate and Barrier Automation Engineer / Access Control Engineer
Location: UK (details provided by recruiter)

Responsibilities

• Deliver automated system installations for gates and barrier access.
• Respond to callouts and carry out maintenance and repairs across the system.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate control systems with building management solutions.
• Address and resolve operational incidents, ensuring minimal downtime.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance bonus.
• Financial wellbeing support.
• Health and dental plans, including cashback schemes.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Inclusive hiring practices – commitment to a Disability Confident employer.

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