Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist

Leicester (Hybrid - 1 Day Per Week)

£60,000-£75,000 + £5,000 Car Allowance + 10% Bonus + Outstanding Benefits

THE COMPANY

We're exclusively partnering with one of the UK's leading digital insurance businesses to hire two Senior Data Scientists into its highly regarded Alternative Pricing Product (APP) team.

With over four million customers and significant investment in Data Science, Machine Learning and digital transformation, the business has built one of the strongest pricing and analytics capabilities in UK insurance. This is a genuinely innovative environment where Data Scientists are encouraged to challenge conventional pricing methods, explore new data sources and develop cutting-edge machine learning solutions that directly influence commercial decisions.

THE ROLE

Joining a specialist team of six Data Scientists and Analysts, you'll play a key role in developing the next generation of pricing models across car and van insurance.

Rather than maintaining existing models, you'll be encouraged to challenge traditional pricing approaches by exploring new datasets and applying innovative machine learning techniques to solve complex commercial problems.

Responsibilities include:

Building predictive machine learning models using large, complex datasets

Developing innovative pricing and customer selection models

Creating footprint (geospatial) models using alternative data sources

Developing residual models to improve claims prediction accuracy

Exploring novel datasets to improve pricing performance

Taking existing V1 models and evolving them into production-ready V2 solutions

Working closely with Pricing, Data Science and Engineering teams

Mentoring a Graduate Data Scientist while leading your own projects from concept through to delivery

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Strong Python and SQL experience

Commercial Machine Learning experience

Strong predictive modelling background

Comfortable working with large, messy datasets

Experience solving complex business problems using data

Experience mentoring or supporting junior team members

Exposure to model deployment is be...