Hybrid Pricing Automation Engineer: Data & Automation

Hastings Direct; Bexhill-on-Sea; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

Annual bonus – 4Cs

Life assurance & pension contributions

Mental wellbeing programme

Discounts & employee benefits

Job summary

Hastings Direct is seeking a Pricing Automation Engineer to join a hybrid team across Leicester, Bexhill and London. You will blend data, technology and commercial insight to automate pricing workflows and boost scoring speed and accuracy.

The role emphasizes building scalable pipelines with Python (essential) and collaborating with pricing, modelling and analytics to deliver measurable commercial impact. Join a finance-led tech culture focused on growth.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python for data tasks and automation.
• Strong ownership and accountability to drive outcomes.
• Clear communication across technical and non-technical teams.
• Collaborative approach with pricing, modelling and analytics teams.
• Adaptable, curious and eager to learn.

Responsibilities

• Support pricing, trading and automation decisions at the data-tech interface.
• Develop and optimise recasting capability for high-speed scoring and back testing.
• Build, test and refine automation pipelines and validate outputs.
• Develop and operationalise data pipelines, pricing logic and model features with Python; SQL/Git desirable.
• Onboard new users and assist existing users with issues.
• Monitor performance and improve speed, scalability and impact across workstreams.
• Create clear documentation and tutorials for recasting tooling users.

Skills

Python

Strong accountability

Excellent communicator

Collaborative

Responsive & adaptable

Lifelong learner

Tools

SQL

Git

Job description

Hastings Direct is seeking a Pricing Automation Engineer to join a hybrid team across Leicester, Bexhill and London. You will blend data, technology and commercial insight to automate pricing workflows and boost scoring speed and accuracy.

The role emphasizes building scalable pipelines with Python (essential) and collaborating with pricing, modelling and analytics to deliver measurable commercial impact. Join a finance-led tech culture focused on growth.