Junior Data Scientist — AI-Powered Pricing & Risk (Hybrid)

Zego; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance technology company in London is seeking a highly motivated Junior Data Scientist to join their Core Pricing team. The role involves building predictive models, exploring large datasets, and collaborating with Engineering and Product teams. Ideal candidates will have a degree in a relevant field, programming skills in Python and SQL, and a problem-solving mindset. This position offers competitive salary and benefits along with a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Market-competitive salary

Private medical insurance

Company share options

Generous holiday allowance

Wellbeing benefits

Annual flexible hybrid working contribution

Qualifications

• At least 1 year of proven experience as a Junior Data Scientist/Data Analyst.
• Experience with version control and software development best practices in a data-intensive environment.

Responsibilities

• Explore and analyse large datasets to uncover trends and opportunities.
• Build and validate statistical and machine learning models.
• Communicate insights clearly through dashboards and visualisations.

Skills

Python

SQL

Statistical Methodology

Communication

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Data Science or related field

Tools

pandas

scikit-learn

AWS

Looker

matplotlib

seaborn

Git

Job description

A leading insurance technology company in London is seeking a highly motivated Junior Data Scientist to join their Core Pricing team. The role involves building predictive models, exploring large datasets, and collaborating with Engineering and Product teams. Ideal candidates will have a degree in a relevant field, programming skills in Python and SQL, and a problem-solving mindset. This position offers competitive salary and benefits along with a hybrid working model.