Lead Data Scientist
Hiscox
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Working within the Group Data Science team as our Lead Data Scientist, you will be responsible for providing the business with a highly capable data science and machine learning chapter.
- This important chapter 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 leadership team, you will lead and nurture our data science and machine learning team – ensuring we recruit, mentor, coach, train and retain talented members.
Requirements
- Experience in a range of machine learning techniques and an understanding of when each tool is best used.
- Strong Statistics capability.
- Familiarity with a wide range of generative AI tools and methodologies including prompt/context engineering, RAG and building agentic toolsets.
- Strong coding ability in python, with experience in other languages an advantage.
- Enthusiasm for developing and mentoring junior talent.
- Technical project leadership experience with experience of line management an advantage.
- Provide Data Science tooling for the chapter that allows for effective documentation of prior experiments (repeatability and reproducibility), cross chapter collaboration and ability to experiment effectively with a choice of data science programming languages and use of notebooks where appropriate.
- A Prototype, fail rapidly and iterate mindset to enable successful delivery.
- Communicate change across the business to wider technical teams to gain insight and learning around data science solution
Benefits
- Bonus
- Contributory pension
- 25 days annual leave plus 2 Hiscox days
- 4 week paid sabbatical with every 5 years’ worth of service
- Private medical for all the family
- Hybrid working model for work-life balance
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Hard skills
machine learningdata analyticsstatisticspythongenerative AIprompt engineeringcontext engineeringRAGdata science programming languagesnotebooks
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcoachingtrainingcommunicationproject leadershipenthusiasmcollaborationadaptabilityproblem-solving