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As a Data Scientist you will take on a high impact role acting as a critical thinker for Hiscox. You will enjoy applying your core technical skills and innovative thinking to solve complex business problems and identify business opportunity. You will be able to operate in a wide variety of business functions and be able to handle multiple competing priorities; be expected to help the business with evidence based decisions and provide ad hoc analysis as well as predictive and prescriptive models to build Hiscox data culture. You must be able to successfully operate in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment, communicate business value derived from analytical solutions to key stakeholders.
As a Data Scientist you’ll work as part of a wider technical team whose wide ranging efforts span multiple business functions; however you will have a special focus on improving underwriting and bring a multi-disciplinary approach to problem solving and analysis but could work on any part of the insurance value chain.
This is an ideal role for an individual who is passionate about the use of analytics to influence decisions and is keen to learn more about delivering value through the use of data. You will be expected to conceptualize new ways of doing things, communicate vision simply and effectively to key stakeholders, and see these visions through to implementation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leveraging industry standards, emerging methodologies and empirical research to develop critical inputs to business information, and helping business leaders develop innovative approaches to driving their business.
- Working on the end to end data solution including understanding complex business challenges, designing scientific solutions, working large and small data sets (including 3rd party and internal data of a wide variety), using cutting-edge machine learning or statistical modelling techniques to derive insights
- Work collaboratively with Data Scientists, data engineers and other technical people including pricing teams in order to help support maturation of analytics practice within the organization.
- Work closely with other members of the data and analytics community at Hiscox, contributing to delivering value though the use of a range of analytics techniques.
- Over the next 18 months you will be working with the Major Property team to accelerate the adoption of a variety of data science techniques to our day-to-day underwriting.
Person Specification:
- Degree in a STEM or closely related field.
- Experience of data science, advanced analytics or a genuine interest to learn.
- Experience of data science in finance, insurance or Ecommerce is an advantage but not required.
- Ability to conduct high quality research in a suitably timely manner working in both independently and in small teams as required by the task.
- Familiarity with version control and other IT delivery tools is required
- A further degree is a plus.
Skills:
- Experience in developing predictive and prescriptive analysis (predictive modelling, machine learning or data mining) used to draw key business insights and clearly articulate findings for target audience.
- Experience with analytical tools / programming languages and databases (for example: R, Python and SQL).
- Interest in a variety of machine learning techniques from simple linear models and random forests to deep learning.
- A particular interest in natural language processing or machine vision.
- A strong grasp of foundational statistics is essential.
- Experience working both in small teams and independently on analytics projects.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills and effective presentation skills. This is absolutely essential since you will have a lot of exposure to different internal stakeholders.
- Willingness to learn best practice in software development.
- Knowledge of insurance, especially Lloyd’s and/or property insurance is an advantage but not essential.
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