Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist

London – Permanent (Hybrid) – Full time – Employee

About the Role

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be a key member of a high‑impact pricing and data science team within a leading commercial insurer. You will bring solid technical expertise, deep commercial awareness, and the ability to lead analytical work that drives decision‑making across the insurance value chain.

Typical Responsibilities

• Deliver high‑quality, commercially impactful analytics, ML, and AI solutions.
• Lead multi‑stakeholder analytical projects across underwriting, claims, operations, and customer functions; set structure, cadence, and deliverables.
• Act as a technical point of referral for Data Scientists advising on modelling approaches, data quality, coding standards, and solution design.
• Demonstrate specialist knowledge (e.g., pricing or domain‑specific modelling) and apply it to complex business problems.
• Present clear, compelling, and well‑structured analyses to technical and non‑technical audiences, with a sharp focus on commercial implications.
• Translate ambiguous business questions into structured analytical problems; define success metrics and validation plans.
• Ensure models and outputs meet governance, documentation, and regulatory standards (e.g., GDPR, EU AI Act); promote robust workflows, version control, testing, peer review, and model risk governance.
• Contribute to evolving data science methodologies, internal tooling and governance frameworks.

What You’ll Bring

• Data science experience in commercial insurance.
• Experience delivering advanced analytics or ML solutions that achieve sustained business impact.
• Experience leading analytical workstreams or projects and coordinating inputs across multiple stakeholders.
• Advanced Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit‑learn; visualisation libraries).
• Proficiency working in cloud‑based Linux environments (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks).
• Understanding of software engineering best practices, including git, modular code design, and reproducible workflows.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder‑management skills; comfortable presenting to senior, technical, and non‑technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring or coaching junior colleagues to raise the bar for the team.

Benefits

• 30 days holiday a year with the option to buy up to 2 additional days.
• Flexible working – part‑time, job share, and compressed hours available.
• Pension – automatic enrollment with 10% employer contribution on basic salary.
• Private medical insurance for you and your family.
• Family friendly policies – 26 weeks leave at full pay regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation or how you become a parent.
• Short‑term remote work abroad – up to 20 days per year.
• Sustainable investing – pension strategy aims for net‑zero carbon footprint.
• Cycle‑to‑Work – up to £5,000 for bike and accessories.

Equal Employment Opportunity

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.

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