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Data Scientist
Data Scientist
About AXA
AXA is a global leader in insurance and financial services, dedicated to helping customers protect what matters most to them. As the sixth-largest insurance company in the world, we provide a wide range of services, including health, car, home, and business insurance. We support millions of customers worldwide, helping them navigate life's uncertainties with confidence.
AXA UK Support Functions look after our three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure and expertise to ensure we can be there for our customers.
Job Overview
Join us as a Data Scientist and help solve tough business challenges with data-driven solutions. Using our cloud-based data lake, you'll build advanced machine learning and AI models to improve how the organisation understands and uses data. You'll explore and question data, turning insights into opportunities and supporting smarter decisions. Working alongside your colleagues, you'll develop stories from data that are easy to understand and impactful. We encourage continuous learning through experimentation, helping you grow your skills and business understanding. You’ll deliver valuable insights, diagnose issues, and communicate findings clearly to support business success and stakeholder confidence.
Key Responsibilities
- Elicit, specify, and document requirements for straightforward subject areas, ensuring clear boundaries and managing agreed deliverables.
- Identify, validate, and leverage simple internal and external data sets generated from non-complex processes.
- Develop, with guidance, predictive and real-time model-based insights to add value and support decision-making.
- Find, acquire, clean, and integrate data to ensure it is fit for purpose, with support as needed.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to explore data, formulate hypotheses, and use models and analytical tools to uncover insights.
- Apply a range of basic analytical techniques, including:
- Data mining
- Pattern matching
- Forecasting
- Visualisation
- Simple machine learning
- Independently develop basic machine learning models to generate insights, predict behaviours, and create value.
- Present data insights visually and creatively to help both technical and non-technical audiences understand findings and support decision-making.
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Work Arrangements
At AXA, we work smart, empowering our teams to balance time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team, and our customers.
- You'll initially work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future.
- Away-from-home days may include attending the office, visiting clients, or participating in industry events.
- Flexible working arrangements are also available for discussion with Talent Acquisition.
Your Skills & Experience
- Degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, operations research, or a related quantitative field.
- Hands-on experience applying machine learning techniques to new data and problems, using Python and SQL in regulated environments.
- Problem-solver capable of diagnosing issues in machine learning systems and data, providing practical suggestions for improvements.
- Familiarity with cloud and machine learning platforms such as Azure, ML services, and Databricks, including real-world applications.
- Skilled at creating clear reports and publishing model results that meet customer needs and organisational standards.
- Able to design, code, test, and refine simple programs or scripts, delivering high-quality, reliable results.
- Knowledge of advanced analytics techniques, including:
- Data/text mining
- Pattern recognition
- Forecasting
- Sentiment analysis
- Neural networks
- Team-oriented with proven ability to collaborate, prototype solutions, monitor progress, and troubleshoot during development.
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As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.
How To Apply
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AXA is proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and does not discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics.
If you have a long-term condition or disability and require adjustments during the application or interview process, AXA Accessibility Concierge is available. For support, please email:
leanne.white@axa-insurance.co.uk
We encourage you to apply for this opportunity as soon as possible, as the advert may close earlier than the listed closing date.
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