Senior Insurance Data Scientist
Senior Data Scientist London or Leicester (hybrid, 1 day per week onsite) £60,000 to £75,000
This is an opportunity to join a pricing team building innovative models that shape how pricing decisions are made. You will work with complex and novel datasets, develop predictive models, and help advance a modern modelling framework that delivers real commercial impact.
The Company They are a well-established organisation investing in data science and advanced analytics. The pricing team operates with agility and encourages curiosity, experimentation and rapid learning. With strong leadership backing and a growing modelling roadmap, they are looking to add experienced Senior Data Scientists to support their next phase of development.
The Role * Develop, refresh and combine pricing and footprint models that support pricing decisions. * Work with messy, complex datasets including geospatial and alternative data sources. * Build predictive and residual models across major products, contributing to a wider model chain. * Review and improve existing early-stage models, progressing them toward production readiness. * Explore new ways to manage and integrate multiple models within a stack. * Guide a junior Data Scientist and support their technical development. * Communicate model outputs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Your Skills and Experience * Strong experience working with large, messy and diverse datasets. * Hands-on modelling experience using GLMs, XGBoost or similar predictive methods. * Proficiency in Python and SQL, ideally within a cloud environment such as Azure. * Experience combining or managing multiple models in a pipeline. * Clear communication skills with the ability to explain insights effectively. * A curious mindset and the ability to work at pace. * Insurance experience is welcome but not essential.
What They Offer * A salary between £60,000 and £75,000. * Hybrid working with London or Leicester as a base. * The chance to build impactful pricing and footprint models. * Career development through ownership, visibility and coaching opportunities.