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Data Scientist

Employer
Legal & General
Location
Hove, East Sussex
Salary
£30,000 - £44,000
Closing date
29 Jul 2019

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Sector
Finance, Financial Services
Contract Type
Permanent

Job Details

Data Scientist

Company Info

  • 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.

Department Info

  • 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 or age.

Job Duties

An exciting and rapidly expanding area of growth for Legal & General. You will be instrumental in supporting areas of the Commercial Development and Insight team in helping L&G imaintain it's position as one of the UK’s leading market providers of Individual Protection products.

You will assist where necessary to enable our business to:

General Duties:

  • 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.
  • Analyse and gain insights from business data to help automate and optimise key processes.
  • 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.
  • Skills Required

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

Desirable:

  • 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.
  • 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 or equivalent.
  • Strong mathematical and statistical skills.
  • Experience of financial services.
  • Detailed knowledge and experience of UK insurance industry.
  • Experience of working with unstructured data.
  • Experience of using R, Python, Java or MATLAB.
  • Detailed knowledge of data manipulation tools (e.g. SAS, SQL).
  • Knowledge of a relevant modelling platform (e.g. Prophet or Emblem) advantageous.
  • Experience of using visualisation tools, Power BI, Tableau or D3.js.

Benefits

  • 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, performance related bonuses, 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.

    Our view is that this role is suitable for agile working. This means we would consider a more flexible working arrangement, where your hours and work location are managed according to business, customer and personal needs’ For this role, you would be based in Hove, but you could work in other Legal and General offices or at home, as necessary, provided this meets business needs. Details of agile working will be discussed during the interview process’

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

 

Company

At Legal & General, we are so much more than your typical finance business. Today we are a builder, insurer, investor, landlord and city regenerator. Tomorrow? Who knows? Whether you are into numbers, digital, data or people, we offer a wide range of opportunities that will take you on a journey that is anything but familiar.

What's the best thing about working at Legal & General? In addition to being part of a business that enables you to have impact and career progression, you get to actively drive change that matters. From addressing our climate crisis and supporting our ageing population to tackling our affordable housing shortage, you will be able to actively participate in driving societal change. At the same time you will be given the opportunity to grow and enjoy our excellent benefits offering while being part of a team of straightforward, collaborative and purposeful individuals that make your actions and ideas come to life in exciting and meaningful ways.

So take a closer look. Get involved. Be curious. You may be surprised!

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Company info
Website
Telephone
01273 375 524
Location
Pod 6, Ground Floor
The Droveway, City Park,
Hove
Sussex
BN3 7PY
GB

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