Lead Data Scientist - Pricing // Insurance
£90,000 - £110,000 - Hybrid in London
My client are a digital insurance broker, focused on business insurance. They aim to simplify the complexities of insurance for small businesses, sole traders, landlords and high-growth firms, regardless of risk, geography or industry. They are simply leading in the space and their technology underpins this.
About the role:
As a Lead Data Scientist, you'll be responsible for steering the data science strategy and deliver innovative uses of AI into the insurance industry. You will be hands on with a view to management further down the line. You'll report directly to the Head of Data and have a chance to make an immediate impact with a focus on enhancing revenue and team efficiencies.
What you’ll get up to:
● You'll own and lead data science projects from initial concept to implementation, with a focus on customer needs and business objectives.
● You'll have a chance to work across the business and see how Data Science can positively impact different departments.
● You'll be using ML methodologies to contribute to the pricing optimization strategy.
● Design, plan, and implement scalable and future-proof data science applications and pipelines
● Monitor and maintain data science products post-launch.
About you:
● An experienced Senior Data Scientist or pre-existing Lead that's happy to be hands on.
● Technical expertise in Python, SQL, FastAPI (or similar)
● Experience working with real-time data applications
● Fundamental understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence - GBMs, GLMs, probability calibration, clustering, linear optimization, neural networks etc.)
● Experimental/ creative mindset when it comes to the potential use cases of AI and machine learning techniques and how they can be applied.
● A fantastic story telling ability.
● You can take the technical to the non-technical.
● Strong foundation in mathematics, statistics or computer science
This is a three stage interview process and the client have an appetite to make it a concise process. If it sounds of interest, please apply or drop me a message on LinkedIn.