Data Scientist

Data Scientist
Flexible Location
Salary depending on experience
Our client are looking for a Data Scientist to join a quickly growing company in developing ambitious solutions across a range of insurance lines, by leveraging vast data assets and state-of-the-art processing capabilities.
They are a leading provider of private insurance in the UK, insuring around 5% of the private cars on the UK roads, 20% of commercial vehicles and over 30% of motorcycles in total premium levels of circa £1b. The majority of business is written as the insurancepricing provider behind household names such as Tesco, Sainsbury's, O2, Halifax, AA, Saga and Lloyds Bank to list a few.
As a Data Scientist, you will use your advanced analytical skills to:

- Identify and create cutting-edge data solutions that create value
- Build and help maintain sophisticated models
- Work collaboratively with other areas to increase overall company performance

**Key Responsibilities**
- Work collaborative with various departments to identify opportunities to create value, by optimising current processes or creating new solutions
- Create ambitious future-looking solutions/models that are state-of-the-art and go beyond business requirements
- Research and leverage new and existing internal and/or external data sources
- Use a wide range of data science and statistical techniques, including Machine Learning
- Communicate results to key decision makers across the business
- Assist in the deployment and monitoring effort to ensure efficient productisation of the solutions created

**Key Skills and Experience**:

- Minimum of 2 years' experience within data science
- Experience with some of the following predictive modelling techniques; Logistic Regression, GBMs, Elastic Net GLMs, GAMs, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Neural Nets and Clustering
- Experience in programming languages (e.g. Python, PySpark, SAS, SQL)