Job description
Join our fast-growing established company as a Data Scientist
As a Data Scientist you'll help us develop ambitious solutions across a range of insurance lines, by leveraging vast data assets and state-of-the-art processing capabilities.
About us
We're a leading provider of private insurance in the UK, insuring around 5% of the private cars on the UK roads, 20% of commercial vehicles and over 30% of motorcycles. The majority of business is written as the insurance pricing provider behind a number of huge household names. You'll work under a thought leader in the Data Science field who's making a big impact on the Insurance industry.
As a Data Scientist, you will use your advanced analytical skills to:
- Help develop cutting-edge, bespoke machine learning predictive models (including risk classification, claims behaviour and fraud)
- Identify and create data solutions that provide value
- Work with the Pricing, Claims Handling and Fraud teams to provide insight across the business
- Come up with ideas and solutions to improve our products, prices and processes, giving us a critical advantage in the increasingly competitive insurance market.
What we're looking for
- Ph.D. or masters in Statistics, Data Science or equivalent field
- Minimum of 5 years' experience within Data Science
- Experience and detailed technical knowledge of GLMs /Elastic Nets, GBMs, GAMs, Random Forests, and clustering techniques
- Experience in programming languages (e.g. Python, PySpark, R, SAS, SQL)
- Proficient at communicating results in a concise manner both verbally and written
Employee benefits
- Private Medical cover for employee
- 5% Employer pension contributions when contributing 5%
- 28 days holiday + bank holidays
- Company Sick Pay
- Life Assurance 4x annual salary
