Underwriting Analytics Architect

Canopius; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Canopius is building a new Underwriting Analytics function in London, embedding data scientists with underwriting and product heads. You will help shape how analytics supports underwriting decisions across the group, working day-to-day with underwriters, portfolio managers and product heads in a hybrid setting.

Shape the analytical agenda with stakeholders, identify high-value opportunities and turn business questions into clear analytical plans.

Qualifications

• Experience applying data science to commercial problems, ideally in insurance or risk domains.
• Strong Python and SQL for data analysis and modelling of large datasets.
• Good grounding in statistical methods and ML with explainable approaches.
• Knowledge of data pipelines, ETL and modern cloud data platforms.
• Proven ability to create dashboards, analytics apps or workflow tools.
• Ability to translate business challenges into analytical problems and outputs.
• Understanding of underwriting concepts and portfolio risk helpful.
• Experience with NLP and generative AI in document-heavy workflows.

Responsibilities

• Shape the analytical agenda and identify high-value opportunities.
• Partner with underwriters and product heads to define plans and measures.
• Assess data for aligned product lines and close material data gaps.
• Improve risk selection, segmentation and portfolio steering.
• Analyze broker pipelines and conversion to focus underwriting effort.
• Prototype workflow improvements and data pre-fill solutions.
• Develop market-cycle insights from rate, terms and coverages.
• Take solutions from discovery through adoption with users.
• Collaborate with central data and technology teams on governance and productionisation.
• Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Python

SQL

Statistical modelling

ML

NLP

Generative AI

Stakeholder management

Communication

Problem ownership

Data visualization

Job description

Canopius is building a new Underwriting Analytics function in London, embedding data scientists with underwriting and product heads. You will help shape how analytics supports underwriting decisions across the group, working day-to-day with underwriters, portfolio managers and product heads in a hybrid setting.

Shape the analytical agenda with stakeholders, identify high-value opportunities and turn business questions into clear analytical plans.