Hybrid Lead Data Scientist

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About the role

  • Lead Data Scientist responsible for data science and machine learning chapter at Hiscox. Facilitating delivery of analytics and AI solutions while mentoring team members.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Job title

Lead Data Scientist

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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