Job Description – Data Scientist
About Hiscox:
At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the work, and we’re committed to
diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.
We embrace hybrid-working practices, balancing the ability to work remotely with the culture and
energy we experience when we are face-to-face in our offices. Our focus on collaboration and
crossfunctional working is supported with virtual tools that minimise physical travel, hot-desking
neighbourhoods that create a physical sense of community and Team Charters that our teams
cocreate to set out how they’ll work together.
This modern way of working has contributed to impressive employee engagement scores across
Hiscox and means we’re delivering even better solutions for our Hiscox Colleagues. As an
international specialist insurer we are far removed from the world of mass market insurance
products. Instead we are selective and focus on our key areas of expertise and strength - all of which
is underpinned by a culture that encourages us to challenge convention and always look for a better
way of doing things.
We insure the unique and the interesting. And we search for the same when it comes to talented
people. Hiscox is full of smart, reliable human beings that look out for customers and each other. We
believe in doing the right thing, making good and rebuilding when things go wrong. Everyone is
encouraged to think creatively, challenge the status quo and look for solutions. Scratch beneath the
surface and you will find a business that is solid, but slightly contrary.
We like to do things differently and constantly seek to evolve. We might have been around for a long
time (our roots go back to 1901), but we are young in many ways, ambitious and going places. Some
people might say insurance is dull, but life at Hiscox is anything but. If that sounds good to you, get in
touch.
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Data Scientist
About the Hiscox Data Team
The Hiscox Data Team is transforming data maturity across the organisation to accelerate business
growth and efficiency using Data, Analytics, and AI. The virtual team consists of a central function
driving alignment, Business Unit teams identifying commercial value and providing execution
capacity and technology providing for Data Engineering and ML Operations services.
We aim to empower colleagues by improving data fluency and promote a data-driven, insight-led
culture that supports informed, customer-centric decisions. Commercial focus, continuous
improvement and product centric delivery is at the heart of everything we do.
The Role
Working within the Group Data Science team as a Data Scientist, you will be responsible for building
Data Science solution including working with conventional data science and generative AI. The team
will facilitate the successful delivery of new data analytics, ML and AI based solutions and provide
insights and capabilities to support decision making across the organisation, using a combination of
public and private data sources, models and cloud services.
As part of our data science team you will be involved in the development of solutions to a broad
range of front and back office tasks including, automation of routine tasks, working on novel
approaches to underwriting and pricing risk and enabling the claims function.
Requirements
• Experience of a range of data science and generative AI tools with a willingness to learn
more.
• Understanding of statistics, to enable systematic assessment of AI/ML models.
• Familiarity with a wide range of generative AI.
• Coding ability in python, with understanding of code quality and version control.
• Experience working in an Agile manner.
• A Prototype, fail rapidly and iterate mindset to enable successful delivery
• Confidence communicating within the team to champion suitable methods and willingness
to engage with non technical stakeholders to understand the nature of the solution required.
Diversity & Benefits
At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to
diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.
Working life doesn’t always have to be in the office, so we have introduced hybrid working to
encourage a healthy work life balance. This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the
business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance.
We see it as the best of both worlds; structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and
flexibility on the other.
Our benefits package includes a bonus, contributory pension, 25 days annual leave plus 2 Hiscox
days and a 4 week paid sabbatical with every 5 years’ worth of service, private medical for all the
family and much more.