Data Scientist Lisboa

Overview

Build a brilliant future with Hiscox. As a Data Scientist at Hiscox, you will take on a
- impact role, acting as a critical thinker and problem solver for the business. You’ll apply your core technical skills and innovative thinking to tackle complex challenges, identify opportunities, and help shape
- driven decision‑making across the London Market.

Job Type

Permanent

Key Responsibilities

• Leveraging industry standards, emerging methodologies and empirical research to develop critical inputs to business information, and helping business leaders develop innovative approaches to driving their business.
• Working on the
  -
  - end data solution including understanding complex business challenges, designing scientific solutions, working with large and small data sets (including 3rd party and internal data of a wide variety), using cutting‑edge machine learning or statistical modelling techniques to derive insights.
• Work collaboratively with data scientists, data engineers and other technical people including pricing and underwriting teams in order to help support maturation of analytics practice within the organisation.
• Work closely with other members of the data and analytics community at Hiscox, contributing to delivering value through the use of a range of analytics techniques.

Person Specification

• Degree in a STEM or closely related field or equivalent experience. A further degree is a plus.
• Experience of data science, advanced analytics or a genuine interest to learn.
• Experience in data science with a proven track record of successfully delivering data science solutions.
• Ability to conduct high quality research in a suitably timely manner working both independently and in small teams as required by the task.
• Familiarity with version control, agile working and other IT delivery tools is required.

Skills

• Experience in developing predictive and prescriptive analysis (predictive modelling, machine learning or data mining) used to draw key business insights and clearly articulate findings for target audience.
• Experience with analytical tools / programming languages and databases (for example: Python, R, SQL).
• Experience with large language models and prompting, GCP experience is a plus.
• Interest in a variety of machine learning techniques from simple linear models and random forests to deep learning.
• A particular interest in natural language processing or machine vision.
• A strong grasp of foundational statistics is essential.
• Experience working both in small teams and independently on analytics projects.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills and effective presentation skills. This is absolutely essential since you will have a lot of exposure to different internal stakeholders.
• Willingness to learn best practice in software development.
• Knowledge of insurance is an advantage but not essential.

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