Senior Geospatial Data Scientist

Hastingsdirectsmartmiles; Leicester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital insurance provider seeks a Senior Geospatial Data Scientist to manage projects that leverage cutting-edge geospatial analytics. The successful candidate will engineer powerful geospatial risk indices, mentor junior colleagues, and develop predictive models using Python and SQL. This opportunity offers a competitive salary and benefits including a £5k car allowance. Join a dynamic team aiming to provide the best digital insurance services while ensuring a fair outcome for customers.

Benefits

£5k car allowance

Dynamic work environment

Flexibility in work

Qualifications

• Experience in creating models using main Data Science libraries in Python.
• Comfortable with remote sensing datasets.
• Experience in Personal Lines pricing teams is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Oversee projects delivering data assets and predictive models.
• Mentor junior data science colleagues and manage a small team.
• Develop models to predict features of insured locations.

Skills

Engineering geospatial features

Building predictive models

Data manipulation with SQL

Stakeholder management

Image processing and segmentation

Tools

Python

GitHub

Job description

**Job Title:**Senior Geospatial Data Scientist **Location:****The Role:** The Senior Geospatial Data Scientist will oversee projects and modelling exercises which deliver cutting-edge data assets and predictive models that feed into Hastings’ market-leading pricing activities. This role is within a combined team of Actuaries and Data Scientists, championing the adoption of the latest machine learning (ML) techniques to leverage powerful insights from vast amounts of customer information and data enrichment.The Senior Geospatial Data Scientist will use their understanding of Geospatial analytics and Data Science techniques to solve insurance problems and to engineer powerful geospatial risk indices. We are looking to leverage advanced geospatial ML techniques to maximise commercial value, while ensuring a fair outcome for customers. The role requires mentoring junior data science colleagues and there is scope to manage a small team.The role would suit a Geospatial Data Scientist with a track record of delivering powerful geospatial features and spatial machine learning models. Insurance experience is a bonus but not a requirement.Develop best in-class models to predict features of a property or insured location **Skills Knowledge & Experience** Experience engineering geospatial features and building predictive models Experience in the creation and development of models in Python, using the main Data Science libraries Experience planning and completing a project independently Strong Structured Query Language (SQL) coding skills and being comfortable with data manipulation. Stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to present technical ideas to a non-technical audience Experience working with remote sensing datasets Image processing and segmentation experience Experience in a Personal Lines pricing team (motor or home) Experience with using GitHub for version control and as a code collaboration tool **Personal Attributes** **Benefits:** inaddition to a competitive salary and £5k car allowance you will also receive… and check out the **what we offer** tab to learn more.Hastings Direct is a fast growing, agile, digitally focused general insurance provider of products and services to over 4 million customers in the UK, employing over 4,600 colleagues. Our vision – to be the best and biggest digital insurance provider in the market.It's our attitude and the way we run our business that makes us different. We focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community. It's a dynamic, flexible, fun and constantly changing environment. You'll enjoy the scope to make a real difference for our customers, influence our company, benefit the communities we work in and have fun along the way.