Job Description
Lead Data Scientist - Perm - Data Science Transformation - Insurance
A global insurance leader is seeking a visionary Data Science Guild Lead to unify and drive innovation across its data science community. This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of data science, machine learning, and AI within a major organisation, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and senior stakeholders.
What You'll Do:
* Build and lead a centralised Data Science Guild, fostering collaboration, standardisation, and innovation across business units.
* Guide teams from siloed ways of working to a cohesive, high-performing community.
* Drive the development and delivery of cutting-edge data science, ML, and AI products, ensuring best practices and robust governance.
* Work closely with engineering, platform, and AI teams to deliver impactful solutions.
* Champion a culture of experimentation, learning, and resilience-where innovation is encouraged and calculated risks are embraced.
* Directly and indirectly manage a diverse team (approx. 30-40), with opportunities for growth and progression.
Location/Hybrid: 3 days to the City of London Office (non-negotiable)
Salary: £140,000 + bonus
Requirements:
* Proven hands-on data science leadership (recent coding not essential, but strong Python knowledge required).
* Deep understanding of ML, AI engineering, solution architecture, and the full development life cycle.
* Experience building teams, setting standards, and delivering measurable outcomes.
* Comfortable managing large, multidisciplinary teams and collaborating across functions.
* Insurance or financial pricing experience is desirable but not essential.
* Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
* Desirable experience within pricing (Financial)
If you're seeking a rare opportunity to influence and change a global insurance firm's data science operations, a true achievement where your ideas will be tried in an environment that knows the risks of innovation. Please get in touch with an up to date CV to get a conversation rolling!
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.