Graduate Data Scientist

Shift Technology; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote and hybrid working options

Competitive salary with performance-based components

Learning and development opportunities

Generous PTO and paid holidays

Mental health benefits

2 paid volunteering days per year

Job summary

Shift Technology, headquartered in the United Kingdom, is seeking a Data Scientist to join their team focused on designing innovative solutions for fraud detection and claims automation. The role involves working with diverse data types, including structured and unstructured data, while ensuring high-quality code and effective client communication. This permanent role requires being onsite in London 2-3 times a week, offering a competitive benefits package and growth opportunities.

Candidates should possess a strong educational background in relevant disciplines and the ability to engage with clients effectively. Shift Technology thrives on innovation and seeks individuals eager to contribute to transforming the insurance industry.

Qualifications

• Proficient in writing maintainable, production-quality code.
• Strong understanding of statistics and machine learning problems.
• Comfortable communicating with clients.

Responsibilities

• Participate in developing products for fraud detection and claims automation.
• Implement data engineering from client extracts to data stores.
• Develop and tune models for production in complex environments.
• Automate business tasks in production processes.
• Conduct client meetings and stakeholder interactions.

Skills

Coding skills

Understanding of AI and machine learning

Client-facing communication

Business understanding

Fluency in English

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Degree in Machine Learning or Statistics

Tools

SQL

C#

ElasticSearch

Job description

Shift delivers AI agents that transform insurers' most critical work. By combining deep industry expertise and unmatched data resources, Shift provides proven results that have earned the trust of hundreds of the world’s leading insurers. Our insurance‑grade AI is accurate, explainable, and secure—empowering human experts to move with unmatched speed, total confidence, and a renewed focus on the people they serve.

Our culture is built on innovation, trust, and a drive to transform the insurance industry through our SaaS platform. We come from more than 50 different countries and cultures and together we are creating the future of insurance.

Learn more at www.shift-technology.com

You are a recent graduate, looking for your first full time Data Science opportunity.

As a Data Scientist you will work on a broad range of subjects actively contributing to the design and evolution of our suite of products focused on fraud detection, anti-money laundering, and claims automation. We are dedicated to providing innovative solutions, and you’ll be part of a team with extensive technical and professional expertise in data science, data engineering, coding, business understanding, and client interactions. Additionally, we tackle a diverse array of data types, including structured data, unstructured text, documents, and images.

This opportunity is perfect for you if you’re seeking a permanent role, and can come to the London office 2-3 times per week. Shift is the ideal place to kickstart your career journey!

What you’ll do...

• You will actively participate in the development of our suite of products: fraud detection, anti-money laundering, and claim automation; and working on various data types such as structured data, free text, documents, and images.
• Implementation of the data engineering, usually from client extracts to the insertion of the data in our data stores (SQL, ElasticSearch)
• Developing, testing, tuning models, and putting them into production for tasks such as fraud detection and automation detection in complex environments.
• Automate key business tasks by implementing them in our production process framework in C#
• Conduct meetings with clients and interact with external stakeholders, whether it is for direct user feedback, presenting business cases, or defining the roadmap of evolutions.

What you bring...

We are looking for candidates with diverse skills to help us build excellent technology solutions for our clients and be proficient in the following skills:

• Code‑savvy, either by having a degree in computer science and/or having developed some apps with actual users- writing scripts for models and notebooks is not enough at Shift, we thrive on people who can write maintainable, production‑quality code that will run everyday without breaking.
• AI‑savvy, either by having a degree in machine learning and/or statistics. Having a clear understanding of statistics and machine learning problems, tasks and common resolutions is important to communicate internally and explain to the client how the product is working.
• Client facing. You will need to be comfortable and open to communicating with our clients on a regular basis.
• Business smart. We don’t expect candidates to know the insurance sector, but we want applicants who are interested in learning and mastering the business aspects of our products.
• Business fluent in English. We are an international company with offices in many countries and 40+ nationalities, the Shift working language is English.
• Additional languages a plus

Recruitment Process

• Recruitment screening
• Technical exercise
• Technical interview with Senior Data Scientist
• Final interview with Hiring Manager

Benefits

To support our permanent, full time employees at every stage of their careers and lives, we provide a competitive total rewards and benefits package. Here are the global benefits we’d like to highlight:

• Flexible remote and hybrid working options
• Competitive Salary and a variable component tied to personal and company performance
• Multiple Learning and Development opportunities, including Focus Fridays, a half-day each month to focus on learning and personal growth
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• Mental health benefits
• 2 MAD Days per year (Make A Difference Days for paid volunteering)

Additional benefits may be offered by country, based on your eligibility - ask your recruiter for more information. Intern and Apprentice positions may receive some of these benefits - ask your recruiter for more details.

Equal Opportunity

At Shift we strive to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from and hire people who will contribute to the diversity of our company, without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, age, national or ethnic origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other non‑merit criteria. Shift Technology is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our application and employment process. Should you require accommodation, please email [e-mail] and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

Please be aware of scammers and only trust correspondence that comes from emails ending in "shift-technology.com". We will never do initial outreach to you via Whatsapp/Text/SMS, never ask for banking information or personal identification numbers (ex. Social Security Number) as part of our recruitment process.

Shift Technology does not accept unsolicited CVs from recruiters or employment agencies in response to the Shift Technology Careers page or a Shift Technology social media post. Any unsolicited CVs, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Shift Technology.