Data Scientist

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VN-14201

Permanent

Hove / London / Agile

Up to £50,000 depending on skills and experience

23 March 2020

We're hiring a Data Scientist who will support the Advanced Analystics team to use machine learning, data mining and statistical techniques to create new scalable solutions for business problems.

Support all areas of the Group Protection Advanced Analytics team to help maintain L&G as one of the UK’s leading market providers of Group Protection products. Assist where necessary to enable the senior actuaries to:

  • Develop new and existing products, by providing data analysis expertise and any additional support as required.
  • Analyse internal and external data in order to provide insight to the team.
  • Use machine learning, data mining and statistical techniques to create new scalable solutions for business problems.
  • Take ownership of key initiatives to deliver results through an agile workflow.
  • Identifying existing and new data sources with potential predictive power for underwriting, claims and behavioral modelling.
  • Develop L&G's capability to build and deploy data science framework and machine learning algorithms based on existing and new insights developed within the team
  • Support all areas of the Group Protection Advanced Analytics team to help maintain L&G as one of the UK’s leading market providers of Group Protection products.
  • Assist where necessary to enable the senior actuaries to:
  • Develop new and existing products, by providing data analysis expertise and any additional support as required.
  • Use machine learning, data mining and statistical techniques to create new scalable solutions for business problems.
  • Take ownership of key initiatives to deliver results through an agile workflow.
  • Identifying existing and new data sources with potential predictive power for underwriting, claims and behavioral modelling.
  • Develop L&G's capability to build and deploy data science framework and machine learning algorithms based on existing and new insights developed within the team
  • Represent the department and establish and maintain contacts within the organisation.
  • Ensure that the principles of Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) are adhered to by understanding who our customers are and their needs.
  • Managing their expectations, by working to agreed timescales and across teams where necessary.

As a data scientist, your skills and qualifications will include:

  • Conceptual thinking about hard abstract problems and solves them with smart, creative and elegant solutions, with a preference for simplicity.
  • Flexibility to deal with changing priorities.
  • Desire to learn with a can do attitude. Passion for decision science, machine learning and optimisation. You will be a life learner, always looking to research, explore and develop new skills and knowledge.
  • Gathers and analyses the right information, seeks out diverse data sets, ideas and perspectives.
  • Constantly pushes the boundaries by innovating to get better solutions.
  • Experience, technical skills and knowledge -
  • Aptitude to interrogate data using various statistical, data mining and machine learning techniques.
  • Analytics, modelling, or software development experience.
  • Ability to present results using various visualisation techniques.
  • University degree in a STEM subject.
  • Strong mathematical and statistical skills.

Desirable:

  • Experience of financial services.
  • Detailed knowledge and experience of UK insurance industry.
  • Experience of working with unstructured data.

Technologies:

  • Experience of using R, Python, Java or MATLAB.
  • Detailed knowledge of data manipulation tools (e.g. SAS, SQL, Alteryx)
  • Experience of using visualisation tools, Power BI, Tableau or D3.js.

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 25 days’ holiday, private medical insurance, discretionary performance related bonuses, paid overtime, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products, your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

For more details, please contact Helen Brockbank - Resourcing Lead - helen.brockbank@landg.com

 

About L&G

We take pride in being there for our customers. We help them deal with whatever life has in store and support them in achieving financial security; and that’s thanks to the talented and dedicated people who work with us. For us, ‘social responsibility’ is not just a buzzword. It defines us and runs through everything we do for our customers and as an employer. And working with us, you’ll get a competitive reward package and have the flexibility and autonomy to deliver your personal, business and career goals.

About the business area

At Legal & General Insurance we look after our customers throughout life, death and everything in between so that you know that everything that’s important to you is protected. With over 180 years’ experience in providing Insurance policies, our customers trust us to be there and to do the right thing.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or age.

About L&G

We take pride in being there for our customers. We help them deal with whatever life has in store and support them in achieving financial security; and that’s thanks to the talented and dedicated people who work with us. For us, ‘social responsibility’ is not just a buzzword. It defines us and runs through everything we do for our customers and as an employer. And working with us, you’ll get a competitive reward package and have the flexibility and autonomy to deliver your personal, business and career goals.

About the business area

At Legal & General Insurance we look after our customers throughout life, death and everything in between so that you know that everything that’s important to you is protected. With over 180 years’ experience in providing Insurance policies, our customers trust us to be there and to do the right thing.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or age.