ML Engineer

AXA Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider in Manchester is seeking a talented Machine Learning Engineer to enhance their Pricing and Analytics department. The successful candidate will develop Python modeling tools, improve software engineering standards, and work in a collaborative environment. This role offers a competitive salary and a robust benefits package, including performance-related bonuses, pension contributions, and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary

Annual company & performance-based bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Life Assurance

Private medical cover

25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Wellbeing services & resources

AXA employee discounts

Qualifications

• Expertise in leveraging software engineering for statistical analysis.
• Attitude of continuous improvement.
• Experience in a personal lines insurer or regulated entity is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Enable seamless, efficient, and controlled value delivery in the P&A department.
• Develop Python modeling tools and metrics for assessing models' value.
• Raise standards of software engineering and ML processes.

Skills

Software engineering approaches for statistical analysis

Python

Git

Collaboration with technical and non-technical colleagues

Experience in fast-paced business contexts

Job description

It's an exciting time in our Pricing and Analytics department here at AXA UK. Our transformation programme has recently been relaunched, aligned to AXA Retail's new Pricing and Analytics strategy. We're investing in growing our department in size and capability, across our IT systems, analytical toolset and learning and development. We'd love to hear from motivated people who can help us deliver our commitments to our business, our customers, and our people.

We’re looking for a talented Machine Learning (ML) Engineer or Senior ML Engineer to build and maintain packages which provide frameworks and mechanics for the rest of Pricing and Analytics. The role will involve tooling to increase the velocity of and value delivered from the analytical lifecycle.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. We’re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

What you’ll be doing:

• Enable P&A department to deliver value in a way that is seamless, efficient and controlled, through standardised modelling, analysis, and deployment workflows.
• Develop Python modelling tools, metrics to assess the value of new models and monitor the value of existing data science models and machine learning services.
• Raise standards of software engineering approaches and ML processes across the department.

Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we’re able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you’re interested in joining us at AXA, please don’t hesitate to apply.

What you’ll bring:

• Expertise leveraging software engineering approaches for statistical analysis and modelling problems with Python, Git.
• Attitude of continuous improvement.
• Effective collaboration with technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Experience applying the above in fast paced, business context.
• Personal lines insurer or other regulated entity experience a bonus.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer:

At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

• Competitive annual salary dependent on experience
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private medical cover
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts

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Who we are:

AXA Retail helps people live the life they love, knowing we’ve got their back, at home and on the road. Our people are vital to us becoming more digital, faster and easier to access. We’re a dynamic team of experts completely committed to making sure our customers ‘get back to the good stuff’ when the unexpected happens.