Python Developer - Insurance analytics
Location - London with hybrid working as per departmental requirements (currently a MINIMUM of 40% (2 days per week).
LCP is an award-winning actuarial and analytics consultancy providing market-leading capabilities and advice across pensions and financial services, energy, health, and analytics. We use powerful analytics fused with human expertise to shape a more positive future.
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Insurance Analytics team as a Python Developer. You will play a leading role in the continued development of InsurSight, our award-winning SaaS platform. InsurSight was launched in April and is currently used to assess over £bn of non-life insurance business. We are expanding the team to help us support our expanding client base whilst delivering our exciting plans to develop the platform further.
You’ll work within our backend team to help shape the direction of how we use Python within InsurSight, focussing on feature development, performance, maintainability, and tighter integration of our C# and Python backend codebases. You will also support and mentor less experienced developers, conduct code reviews, and take ownership of key technical challenges - particularly where large datasets and performance bottlenecks are involved.
Our team consists of:
1. 1 Product manager
2. 4 C# developers
3. 2 Python developers
4. 1 Actuarial data scientist
5. 2 Front end developers
6. 1 DevOps and site reliability engineer
7. 3 QA Engineers
You will have the benefit of the guidance of our actuarial data scientists, Python developer and product manager, but also the opportunity to take ownership of your work. This is a mid-level role for someone looking to deepen their Python and software engineering skills whilst working in a domain-rich environment.
Key Responsibilities:
8. Provide Python development expertise on new InsurSight features, ensuring performance, scalability and maintainability
9. Help with further integration between our C# and Python codebases, rewriting or restructuring code where needed to reduce inefficiencies and improve cohesion
10. Optimise performance of complex data and analytics workflows, including calculations on larger datasets (e.g. on 4GB+ datasets)
11. Review and provide feedback on code written by other developers, support mentoring and skill development across the team
12. Champion best practices in software engineering including testing, version control, CI/CD, and OOP
13. Collaborate with actuaries, analysts and data scientists to deliver technically robust, industry-relevant features
14. Research and prototype new technologies to support innovation and continuous improvement
15. Contribute to a culture of curiosity, collaboration and technical excellence
Skills and Experience:
16. Strong Python development experience, with a track record of writing production-grade, maintainable code
17. Experience working with large datasets and performance-critical workloads
18. Familiarity with Azure PaaS/SaaS tools (e.g. Azure Functions, Batch, Blob/Table/Queue Storage), and CosmosDB
19. Comfort with software-engineering best practices: automated testing, version control, CI/CD, OOP
20. Proactive, problem-solving mindset with a focus on performance and user experience
21. Exposure to actuarial or non-life insurance analytics, or an interest in domain-rich environment
22. Experience picking up complex and unfamiliar analytical concepts
What’s in it for you?
Take a look at our and Career stories pages to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:
For you:
23. Hybrid working (see top of the advert for details)
24. Professional study support (where applicable)
25. Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks
For your family:
26. Life assurance
27. Income protection
28. Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave
For your health:
29. 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday
30. Private medical insurance
31. Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
32. Eye care vouchers
33. Cycle to work scheme
34. Digital GP services
For your wealth:
35. Competitive pension scheme
36. Discretionary bonus scheme
37. High street discounts
38. Season ticket loans
For others:
39. Volunteering opportunities
For the environment:
40. Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme (qualifying period applies)