Actuarial Software Engineer

Xpertise Recruitment

London

1 year ago

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Salary: Circa 70k + Bonus (Up to 20%) + Bens

Location: London – Hybrid

Our client, a global Insurance client, are looking for a Software Engineer to join their growing actuarial function following their recent build of a development on-premise SQL Server. This role will involve both SQL Server and Python development work alongside on-going database administration.

The role:

Provide Python and SQL Server infrastructure support to the reserving team, using your developed knowledge of key actuarial principles
Create custom reporting scripts and stored procedures from within SQL Server Management Studio, PyCharm or VSCode
Enhance the current data ingestion processes using Python
Introduce effective environmental controls within the team and appropriate version control within the team scripts using Azure Devops / Github
Improve or rebuild/resign of the existing DEV server
Automate routine actuarial calculations using Python and/or SQL Server to extend the existing codebase

Experience required:

Experience within the reserving team of the actuarial function
Python experience within the data science context
Demonstrable experience managing small-scale on-prem SQL Server databases
Able to use of Python in the context of SQL Server, including pyodbc / sqlalchemy and Excel

Nice to have (not mandatory):

PowerBI reporting skills
Actuarial business knowledge

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