Senior Data Scientist

About the role

As a Senior Data Scientist, you'll play a key role in a high‑impact pricing and data science team within a leading commercial insurer. You'll bring solid technical expertise, deep commercial awareness, and the ability to lead analytical work that drives decision‑making across the insurance value chain. You'll act as a point of referral for the wider team, mentor junior data scientists, and help shape best practices in model development, governance, and responsible AI. This is ideal for someone ready to step into broader ownership, increased autonomy, and higher levels of cross‑functional influence. Your new role Reporting into the Data Science Manager, you'll apply data science and machine learning to real‑world challenges, turning complex data into clear, commercially meaningful insights. Typical responsibilities include: 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. Translate model outputs into practical pricing recommendations, supporting underwriting strategy, rate changes, and portfolio management decisions. About you You're a hands‑on data scientist who enjoys solving real problems with data, and you communicate your thinking with clarity and confidence. You're collaborative, open, and comfortable operating in fast‑paced, cross‑functional environments.