Pricing Automation Engineer

Job Title: Pricing Automation Engineer

Location: London / Lecester / Bexhill

Welcome to Hastings Direct

Were a digital insurance provider with a clear strategy to become the best and biggest player in the UK market. As a company weve made huge investments in our technology pricing data and analytics capabilities over the past few years along with nurturing our 4Cs culture and substantial investment in our people. And as a Finance team were doing exactly the same building a market leading finance technology platform investing in our team and our approach to leadership development with a real focus on commercially adding value to the business.

The fact youre now reading this job advert means weve tempted you to find out more about #lifeatHD. If you like what you see we hope youll consider joining our team.

We have high standards and understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they feel they tick every box. If youre excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for even if youre not 100% sure we would love to hear from you.

Role Overview

Our mission is to create the leading suite of exploratory and data products in the industry - empowering our pricing data and analytics (PDA) community to move faster and deliver more with major commercial impact.

Skywalker is our automated trading platform and is at the heart of what we do. It maximises underwriting pricing efficiency and hosts a growing suite of tooling thats being adopted across the wider business. Were expanding Skywalkers capabilities and looking for curious motivated people to help support the PDA community in getting the most out of it.

This role is open to junior and mid-level applicants including graduates provided you meet the technical requirements and bring a learning mindset.

Why this might excite you

Our team works at the cutting edge of technology and automation and we aspire to drive business success through innovation and smart technology. We believe great work happens when youre supported trusted and doing something meaningful. Thats why this role offers:

• Learning: Whether youre early in your career or branching out we support your future - through mentoring pair programming and on-the-job learning through a well-connected community that values delivery growth and enjoyment.

• Autonomy: Youll have the freedom to solve real business problems in your own way

• Purpose: Youll help streamline and scale pricing and underwriting across the business and be a key contributor collaborating at the intersection of pricing modelling engineering & more

• Specialty: Youll build niche expertise in pricing automation underwriting workflows and trading infrastructure

• Clear expectations: In your first 3-6 months you might:

• Prototype new enhancements to our Skywalker toolkit

• Contribute to adoption and rollout of Skywalker tools across new teams

• Automate key underwriting data pipelines

Essential skills/experience:

Technical skills

Youll need:

• Python (whether scripting automation or light data wrangling)

• SQL (confident with queries and joins)

• Git & GitHub (e.g. branching pull requests code reviews)

• Some commercial awareness - maybe youve worked with pricing market dynamics underwriting or just have a good instinct for business impact

Personal

Youre likely to thrive if you are:

• Accountable: Confident owning and solving problems and challenge the status quo

• Brilliant communicator: able to engage and trade information clearly in any setting

• Collaborative: you enjoy working with others helping them get the most out of Skywalker

• Responsive: you can context switch comfortably across multiple workstreams

• A lifelong learner: you seek out growth both with and without direction

• Curious: you enjoy exploring how things work and how they can be improved

• Creative: youre comfortable prototyping or hacking to learn quickly

• Optimistic: you believe change is possible and worth pursuing

• Highly analytical: with capability to interpret complex data sets to identify patterns trends and actionable insights.

Bonus round

Dont worry if you dont tick all these boxes especially if youre curious and eager to learn. Well help you build these skills.

Experience with:

• Automation of processes/pipelines for data analytics or operations

• ML-specific Python libraries (e.g. pandas scikit-learn xgboost)

• Big data tooling (e.g. Snowflake/snowpark pyspark)

• Cloud computing - especially Azure where we deploy key parts of our platform

The interview process:

Our interview process involves the below:

• Recruiter screening call

• Take home assessment

• Interview with hiring team

As a Disability Confident employer were committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive what this means to you is if youre applying for a job with us youll have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment journey. We also welcome applications through the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS).For more information on the DCS please visit our inclusive business page on our careers website

Benefits: In addition to a competitive salary you will also receive

Flexible working we champion a flexible hybrid working approach please speak to your recruiter to discuss in more detail

Competitive bonus scheme- all colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus

Financial wellbeing as well as providing you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover income protection at no extra cost and matched pension contributions up to 10% we are proud to provide you with an award winning package which includes discounts cashback free independent mortgage advice and free access to financial wellbeing support

Mental wellbeing programme we have the thrive mental health app our colleague assistance programme available 24/7 our own in-house mental health first aiders support groups and a dedicated team to make sure we are covering your needs

Theres more! 25 days annual leave bank holidays with the option to buy or sell one of your weeks access to our health care cash back plans dental plans discounted health assessments Cycle to work and tech schemes discounted and free onsite facilities social events throughout the year and much more .

Join us and youll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4Cs. We focus on getting it right for our colleagues customers company and community. As one of our colleagues youll be helping to drive our growth so in return well give you all the support training and development you need. Our 4Cs principles are simple: we believe by creating the right culture for our colleagues and giving them the right tools to do their job well deliver good outcomes for every customer helping us to grow the company profitably and sustainably and allowing us to invest in the communities we serve.

Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender age race disability ethnic background religion/belief sexual orientation gender reassignment or marital/family status. Please also note that we have a thorough referencing process which includes credit and criminal record checks.

At Hastings Direct were committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process we encourage you to be open with us. Our recruitment team is here to provide the support you need to ensure a fair and accessible experience for all.

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