Data Scientist

Job Type:

Permanent

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About the Hiscox Data Team

The Hiscox Data Team is transforming data maturity across the organisation to accelerate business growth and efficiency using Data, Analytics, and AI. The virtual team consists of a central function driving alignment, Business Unit teams identifying commercial value and providing execution capacity and technology providing for Data Engineering and ML Operations services.

We aim to empower colleagues by improving data fluency and promote a data-driven, insight-led culture that supports informed, customer-centric decisions. Commercial focus, continuous improvement and product centric delivery is at the heart of everything we do.

The Role

Working within the Group Data Science team as a Data Scientist, you will be responsible for building Data Science solution including working with conventional data science and generative AI. The team will facilitate the successful delivery of new data analytics, ML and AI based solutions and provide insights and capabilities to support decision making across the organisation, using a combination of public and private data sources, models and cloud services.

As part of our data science team you will be involved in the development of solutions to a broad range of front and back office tasks including, automation of routine tasks, working on novel approaches to underwriting and pricing risk and enabling the claims function.

Requirements

· Exposure to of a range of data science and generative AI tools with a willingness to learn more.

· Basic understanding of statistics, to enable systematic assessment of AI/ML models.

· Familiarity with a wide range of generative AI.

· Coding ability in python, with understanding of code quality and version control.

· Experience working in an Agile manner.

· A Prototype, fail rapidly and iterate mindset to enable successful delivery

· Confidence communicating within the team to champion suitable methods and willingness to engage with non technical stakeholders to understand the nature of the solution required.

Diversity & Benefits

At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.

Working life doesn’t always have to be in the office, so we have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance. This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance.

We see it as the best of both worlds; structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and flexibility on the other.

 Our benefits package includes a bonus, contributory pension, 25 days annual leave plus 2 Hiscox days and a 4 week paid sabbatical with every 5 years’ worth of service, private medical for all the family and much more. 

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