Senior Data Scientist - Telematics

Salary: £47,000 - 86,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proficiency in Python and experience with ML libraries for building and deploying machine learning solutions in cloud environments.
• Experience using SQL.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate across teams of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, ML Engineers, Operational and Commercial stakeholders.
• Technical competence complemented by broader business understanding.
• A problem-solver who enjoys building creative solutions to complex real-world challenges.
• Able to work independently, with support where needed, and collaboratively.
• Curious, willing to challenge received wisdom and explore emerging techniques.

Responsibilities:

• Develop best-in-class ML models to predict claims outcomes, fraud and other risk KPIs, including developing novel features from raw telematics data.
• Collaborate with ML Engineers to deploy ML models.
• Monitor deployed ML models and link performance to commercial and customer outcomes.
• Present your work to Operational and Commercial stakeholders.
• Explore new technologies and contribute to setting our teams best practices.
• Design and build cutting-edge features and predictive models that generate value across our products.
• Use models and data assets to improve risk selection at point-of-quote and in-life.
• Turn our telematics data into underwriting advantage.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• Support
• Machine Learning
• Python
• SQL

More:

We are Hastings Direct, a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans to become the best and biggest in the UK market. We have invested heavily in our pricing and data capabilities and are building our Telematics Data Value team, made up of data scientists, analysts, and engineers. This hybrid role is based in Bexhill, Leicester or London, and we offer a competitive salary, a £5k car allowance, flexible working, bonus scheme, private medical insurance, financial wellbeing support, mental wellbeing resources, and 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays. We work with our 4Cs culture, support inclusive recruitment, and encourage applications from suitably skilled people.

last updated 34 week of 2026