Senior Data Scientist

Overview

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Responsibilities

You’ll be an integral part of a team fostering a company-wide data-informed culture, and making sure that insight is aligned to our business outcomes and growing operations.

You’ll also be joining a much broader, award winning international data team that is doing some really exciting things with the latest big data and analytics technologies.

Reporting into Josh (our Head of Advanced Analytics), who’s hands on and interested in pretty much everything technology. You’ll be joining a team that is highly collaborative and not afraid to share exciting ideas that we then bring to life.

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• drive value to Simply Business (SB) through simplicity and a pragmatic approach to complex data initiatives
  
• lead the data-driven decision-making process, from data collection and analysis to implementation and monitoring of solutions
  
• facilitate adoption of ML models through exceptional communication with stakeholders
  
• work in an established MLOps team at SB there is significant opportunity to deploy end to end and will be actively encouraged
  
• continually improve through active learning and development highlighting opportunities for SB to stay at the forefront of commercialised Data Science
  
• mentor and support members of the Data Science team, we want you to help build the momentum and quality of our team!
  

Qualifications

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• experienced in Data Science as a Data Scientist/ML Engineer or Hybrid
  
• excellent in programming in python with other OOP languages a plus
  
• experienced in common modelling processes, packages and algorithms
  
• capable of developing process, ML Ops, CI/CD and deployment preferably in AWS/GCP/DBX
  
• experienced in leading ML projects from concept to production
  
• able to producing High levels of storytelling, presentation and communication skills – able to use a variety of data visualisation techniques to easily explain the results of your analysis to a non-technical audience
  
• knowledgeable in GenAI, NLP and other Deep Learning techniques a plus
  

We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you and do your very best work.

Ready to build the future of Simply Business with our Data Science team? Apply today.

About Simply Business

We insure small businesses and enable big dreams – not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 1,000,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords and more than 1,200 other trades.

We’re a technology company as well as one that sells insurance. That means we build, we fail, we learn and we improve. We’re a B Corp too, which recognises our strong track record of having a positive impact on people, society and the environment.

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Benefits

We offer a great work-life balance where every team member has a manageable workload and the flexibility to work hybrid.

On top of the 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), we offer leave that suits your needs. Plus the option to buy five more days of holiday with your flexible benefits.

Our flexible parental leave allows you to approach an important time how you want – with six months full pay to the primary caregiver and four weeks full pay if you’re the secondary caregiver.

Our life event leave is an extra days leave every two years for those big moments in your life like moving house or your birthday. And as a thank you to our long-serving employees we offer a two week paid sabbatical after five years of service, then four weeks off after ten years of service.

And our core benefits can put your mind at ease with private medical insurance through BUPA, that covers any pre-existing condition. And a health cash plan that covers your everyday medical expenses.

We also make sure you’re compensated fairly with a competitive salary based on your experience and the market we’re in. Plus the potential to earn an annual bonus based on performance.

There’s access to the tools to support your personal development with programmes on our dedicated learning platform. As well as support for your mental health with access to counselling.

We’ll match what you put into your pension up to five per cent. And pass on a tax-free sum that’s four times your basic salary with our life assurance policy, with the option to increase it to ten times through our flexible benefit scheme.

Our salary sacrifice car scheme gives you the option to buy a brand new, fully insured, and maintained car for a convenient fixed monthly amount taken from your gross salary (after 6 months service).

And our flexible benefits scheme gives you an allocated amount to use each year on benefits like critical illness cover, dental insurance, travel insurance, or a gym membership.

Ready to join us and drive our success as a high-performing team? Apply today.

Seniority level

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• Not Applicable
  

Employment type

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• Full-time
  

Industries

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• Insurance
  

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