Lead Data Scientist: Dynamic Insurance Pricing

Traveloka; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Traveloka is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to own the insurance pricing models for cross-sell products. You will build and run live pricing across multiple markets, taking pricing from problem framing to production.

You will work with ML Platform, Data Engineering, and Data Analytics teams to ship robust, data-driven pricing strategies. The role emphasizes modelling, business judgement, and the ability to ship end-to-end solutions, with strong stakeholder communication and ownership of the

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in data science or applied ML.
• Experience with models serving live production traffic.
• Strong SQL and Python, with modelling toolkit experience.
• Solid grounding in experimentation and causal inference.
• Engineering fundamentals: version control, CI/CD, containerisation, basic cloud and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Own insurance pricing end-to-end and define KPIs.
• Design and train models; curate market-specific data; feature design.
• Validate before shipping with pricing simulations and backtests.
• Ship to production; extend inference serving; monitor and maintain.
• Communicate approaches and results to stakeholders.
• Set direction for pricing science, defining roadmap and standards.

Skills

SQL

Python

A/B testing

CI/CD

Containerisation

Stakeholder comms

ML problem ownership

Model deployment

Pricing models

Education

Master's or higher in quantitative field

Tools

Containerisation

Cloud basics

Job description

Traveloka is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to own the insurance pricing models for cross-sell products. You will build and run live pricing across multiple markets, taking pricing from problem framing to production.

You will work with ML Platform, Data Engineering, and Data Analytics teams to ship robust, data-driven pricing strategies. The role emphasizes modelling, business judgement, and the ability to ship end-to-end solutions, with strong stakeholder communication and ownership of the