About the role

Pricing Automation Engineer building and expanding pricing automation tools for Hastings Direct, a digital insurance provider aiming to lead in the UK market.

Responsibilities

Our mission is to create the leading suite of exploratory and data products in the industry - empowering our pricing, data and analytics (PDA) community to move faster and deliver more, with major commercial impact.
Skywalker is our automated trading platform and is at the heart of what we do.
It maximises underwriting pricing efficiency and hosts a growing suite of tooling that’s being adopted across the wider business.
We're expanding Skywalker’s capabilities and looking for curious, motivated people to help support the PDA community in getting the most out of it.
This role is open to junior and mid-level applicants, including graduates, provided you meet the technical requirements and bring a learning mindset.

Technical skills You’ll need: Python (whether scripting, automation, or light data wrangling)
SQL (confident with queries and joins)
Git & GitHub (e.g. branching, pull requests, code reviews)
Some commercial awareness - maybe you’ve worked with pricing, market dynamics, underwriting, or just have a good instinct for business impact
Personal You’re likely to thrive if you are: Accountable: Confident owning and solving problems, and challenge the status quo
Brilliant communicator: able to engage and trade information clearly in any setting
Collaborative: you enjoy working with others, helping them get the most out of Skywalker
Responsive: you can context switch comfortably across multiple workstreams
A lifelong learner: you seek out growth both with and without direction
Curious: you enjoy exploring how things work and how they can be improved
Creative: you're comfortable prototyping or hacking to learn quickly
Optimistic: you believe change is possible and worth pursuing
Highly analytical: with capability to interpret complex data sets to identify patterns, trends and actionable insights.
Experience with: Automation of processes/pipelines for data, analytics or operations
ML-specific Python libraries (e.g. pandas, scikit-learn, xgboost)
Big data tooling (e.g. Snowflake/snowpark, pyspark)
Cloud computing - especially Azure, where we deploy key parts of our platform

Flexible working – we champion a flexible hybrid working approach
Competitive bonus scheme - all colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus
Financial wellbeing – as well as providing you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost, and matched pension contributions up to 10%, we are proud to provide you with an award winning package which includes – discounts, cashback, free independent mortgage advice and free access to financial wellbeing support
Mental wellbeing programme – we have the thrive mental health app, our colleague assistance programme available 24/7, our own in-house mental health first aiders, support groups and a dedicated team to make sure we are covering your needs
25 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 and much more ….