Senior Data Scientist - 12 month FTC

Legal & General; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider in the UK is seeking a Data Scientist to develop generative AI solutions. You will partner with stakeholders to identify AI opportunities, develop production-ready machine learning models, and enhance decision-making processes. Candidates should have a degree in a quantitative field and experience in data manipulation and machine learning techniques. The role offers excellent benefits including a performance-related bonus, generous pension contributions, and healthcare plans.

Benefits

Performance-related bonus

Generous pension contribution

Life assurance

Healthcare plan

At least 25 days holiday

Electric car scheme

Various employee discounts

Qualifications

• Degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g. statistics, computing science, data science) or equivalent experience.
• Experience dealing with high volumes of data with excellent attention to detail.
• Knowledge of a variety of Machine Learning and Generative AI techniques.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver Generative AI solutions to enhance business decision making.
• Build productive relationships with stakeholders and communicate insights effectively.
• Source and engineer quality data for Generative AI activities.

Skills

Machine Learning techniques

Generative AI techniques

Data Manipulation

Data Transformation

SQL

Python

Attention to detail

Education

Degree in a quantitative discipline

Job description

Job Description

Group Data Science’s Generative AI team are looking to hire a Data Scientist to contribute to the development and delivery of research driven generative AI solutions.

You will be partnering with Group Functions and the wider business to gather requirements from stakeholders to identify areas which could benefit from advanced AI solutions which are being developed from research papers to efficiency in a wide range of project areas. Working end to end machine learning solutions you will contribute towards ongoing projects such as chatbot development, document summarisation and image generation, building products that can have an immediate impact on the initial requirements of the team you’re working with, while identifying how they can be replicated in other areas across the business.

What you’ll be doing :

• Developing and delivering Generative AI solutions, working with a variety of data sources to better inform business decision making, enhance customer experience and create a competitive edge.
• Developing and maintaining productive relationships with all stakeholders; communicating with stakeholders in a non‑technical manner, providing advice, understanding and insight to improve the utilisation of Data Science within the organisation.
• Identifying, sourcing, and engineering data to support Generative AI activity. Ensuring data is of sufficient quality and conducting exploratory data analysis while utilising findings to prepare data for Generative AI activities.
• Visualising model results, analytical outputs, and project deliverables to a high standard with best practice.
• Working with other data professionals and business stakeholders to automate and productionise Data Science solutions using appropriate code and automation tooling.
• Ensuring all work is fully documented and quality assurance is undertaken (via peer review) to verify the accuracy of all deliverables.
• Reading and implementing Generative AI research papers to understand applicability to solve practical business problems.

Qualifications

• Degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g. statistics, computing science, data science) or equivalent experience
• Experience in dealing with high volumes of data with excellent attention to detail and reconciliation
• Knowledge of a wide variety of Machine Learning and Generative AI techniques
• Experience of performing data Manipulation and Transformation to create datasets for Generative AI activity
• Automating analysis and Applying model Pipelines
• Gathering requirements from stakeholders, managing expectations and guiding on approach
• Working with a variety of datasets across different domains
• Experience with coding languages for data manipulation such as SQL
• Experience with coding languages for Machine Learning model development such as Python
• Practical experience of developing Machine Learning / Generative AI models in a commercial or advanced research context

Benefits

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance‑related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand‑new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel. We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part‑time, term‑time and job shares. Though some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose. Share this article