Hastings Direct · 17 hours ago
Lead Pricing Engineer - Rating Platform & Automation
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/StaffHastings Direct is a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans to become a leader in the UK market. They are seeking a highly skilled Lead Pricing Engineer to drive the development and optimization of underwriting pricing capabilities and rating platforms, leading a team and collaborating with various departments to ensure effective pricing changes.
Insurance
Responsibilities
Lead discussions and collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop optimised solutions for pricing implementations, enhancing performance and efficiency while gaining a deep understanding of the business requirements
Drive the adoption of modern engineering techniques and intelligent automation, including AI-assisted development and testing practices, into production and day-to-day pricing delivery where appropriate
Lead and collaborate on projects to ensure the seamless integration of new capabilities across multiple lines of business, proactively addressing obstacles from early development through to delivery
Design, develop, and maintain pricing algorithms using expert-level Python skills, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and high standards of quality and control
Lead and conduct thorough testing of pricing changes before deployment, identifying errors, and ensuring accuracy and effectiveness of implementation
Lead pre-release activities, including code reviews, testing and preparing changes for release to ensure pricing updates are implemented accurately
Maintain strong communication and organisational skills to manage multiple initiatives and report progress clearly and consistently
Develop comprehensive documentation for implementations, strategies, and data pipelines, ensuring they are well-governed, transparent and compliant with internal controls
Strategically manage resources across multiple lines of business to maximise value, efficiency, and delivery capacity
Lead and mentor pricing engineers, establishing a Centre of Excellence to provide technical guidance, support, and best practices in pricing implementation and coding
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Strong hands-on experience in software engineering, with exposure to ML engineering or advanced analytics environments
Expert-level Python skills, with experience developing and maintaining complex pricing algorithms or decision logic
Proven experience leading AI-assisted engineering practices, including hands-on use of LLM-based tools to support development, testing, validation, and documentation, with clear ownership of standards, controls, and governance for production use
Practical experience working in Azure cloud environments, using version control systems (e.g. Git/GitHub), and operating CI/CD pipelines
Proficiency with SQL and experience working with data visualisation or analysis techniques
Strong stakeholder-management and influencing skills, with the ability to balance technical, commercial, and governance considerations
Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complex pricing and engineering challenges and deliver robust solutions
Experience delivering complex initiatives in Agile environments, using approaches such as Scrum, Kanban, BDD, TDD, or Extreme Programming
Benefits
Flexible working
Competitive bonus scheme
Physical wellbeing
Financial wellbeing
Mental wellbeing programme
27 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
Company
Hastings Direct
Hastings Group is a fast growing, agile, digitally focused general insurance provider providing services to the UK car, van, bike and home insurance market.
Founded in 1996
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase