Insurance Data Science Consultant: Strategy & AI Delivery

Vbeyond; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Vbeyond is seeking a Data Science Consultant in London. The role blends business consulting with hands‑on delivery, with ~60% time spent engaging stakeholders and ~40% building and delivering data science and AI solutions.

You will lead discussions with underwriting, claims, pricing, risk, and customer operations teams to translate problems into analytics use cases and actionable outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Data Science, AI, Machine Learning, or Advanced Analytics.
• Demonstrable experience working within the Insurance industry.
• Strong understanding of insurance domains such as Claims, Underwriting, Pricing, Risk, Policy Administration, or Customer Experience.
• Experience leading business discussions and consulting engagements.

Responsibilities

• Engage with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, challenges, and opportunities.
• Facilitate discovery workshops and requirements‑gathering sessions.
• Translate business problems into data science, AI, and analytics use cases.
• Present solution approaches, prototypes, and recommendations to business and executive stakeholders.
• Act as a trusted advisor, helping clients prioritise initiatives and define measurable business outcomes.
• Work closely with underwriting, claims, pricing, risk, and customer operations teams.
• Drive adoption of AI and analytics solutions through effective stakeholder management and communication.
• Design and develop predictive, machine learning, and Generative AI solutions.
• Build prototypes, proof‑of‑concepts, and production‑ready analytical models.
• Perform data exploration, feature engineering, model development, and validation.
• Collaborate with data engineers and architects to operationalise solutions.
• Ensure solutions follow Responsible AI, governance, and security best practices.
• Support deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of models.

Skills

Python

SQL

Machine Learning

Generative AI

LLMs

Agentic AI

Power BI

Azure

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

Azure OpenAI

Azure Machine Learning

Databricks

Job description

Vbeyond is seeking a Data Science Consultant in London. The role blends business consulting with hands‑on delivery, with ~60% time spent engaging stakeholders and ~40% building and delivering data science and AI solutions.

You will lead discussions with underwriting, claims, pricing, risk, and customer operations teams to translate problems into analytics use cases and actionable outcomes.