Job description

Role Description

LVGI have a new opportunity for a Data Engineer (MLOps and Cloud ETL) at one of our offices in London (Gracechurch Street), Bristol (Woodland Road & Bournemouth (Frizzell House).

We build out fully operational machine learning products to solve the problems at the core of our business. You will be involved in all aspects of these machine learning projects, from liaising with business subject matter experts, to model extract generation, deployment and monitoring. You'll also be involved in the development of new tools and infrastructure for use across the team, including cloud provisioning and deployed application management.

The team structure is composed of smaller, focused stream-aligned agile teams. Each team works with different business areas and subject matter experts to achieve a mutual understanding of the business, challenges, and their needs. These stream-aligned teams are slowly rotated throughout the year to enable strong relationships with business areas, whilst giving our team the opportunity to develop through exposure of new data challenges and domain-knowledge problems.

To find out more about our Data Science team please see the link below:

Data Science jobs - LV= GI careers

Your Focus

  • Help build and monitor end-to-end machine learning solutions deployed onto Azure that will be essential to the business' ability to serve our customers
  • Create data extracts to address complex business challenges, collaborating across teams for all aspects of project delivery
  • Develop CICD processes to help automate workflows.
  • Taking time to stay up to date with the newest cloud and data tech as you contribute to building new tools and infrastructure
  • Work as part of a team working in an agile workflow, managing your own tickets and collaborating with team members on joint tasks.
  • Presenting key findings from projects back to a variety of different stakeholders as well as internal teams, communicating at their appropriate technical levels

Essential Skills

  • 1+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or similar cloud or data orientated role.
  • Programming skills, with experience of writing clean, well-documented, and unit-tested python.
  • ETL processes to read, transform, and verifying data using tools such as SQL and PySpark.
  • Experience in building data solutions on Azure or similar public cloud.
  • DevOps/MLOps (CI/CD, Release Management, Kubernetes, Docker).
  • Strong collaborative mindset with the ability to foster a positive and inclusive team environment.
  • Able to deliver projects and articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
  • Committed to continual improvement in your technical skills over the lifetime of your career.

Desirable Skills

  • GDPR-compliance and data governance in context of machine learning.
  • Previous experience in insurance/financial services.
  • Infrastructure management including monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery processes.
  • OpenAI, GPT, or other LLM technologies.
  • Familiar with all parts of the Machine Learning lifecycle, from initial scoping and development to deployment and model maintenance.

Familiarity with Agile Ways of Working (JIRA)

Don't meet every single requirement? – We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align exactly with every qualification in the job description, we would still encourage you to apply. You might still be the right candidate for this or other roles.

What we can offer you

Benefits

This role is an Associate Level Cluster in the LV= Structure (Internal only). Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider LV=GI Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

  • XXX days' holiday
  • A competitive pension for which LV= will pay twice the amount you pay, up to 14%
  • An annual bonus scheme based on company and personal performance
  • A flexible benefits package (e.g. discounted retail vouchers, great value dental insurance)
  • ElectriX EV salary sacrifice scheme
  • A generous 25% discount off our general insurance products including home, pet and travel as well as up to 50% discount on your car insurance.

Our Ways of Working

Do you need some flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen.

We are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Our hiring process

We value your time and want to ensure a smooth and transparent hiring process. Here’s what you can expect:

  • Application review: after the application deadline we will carefully review all CVs.
  • Technical interview: candidates who pass the initial review stage will be invited to a virtual 30-minute technical interview to assess their data science skills relevant to the role.
  • Non-technical interview: successful candidates will be invited to a 90-minute interview with a focus on competency and experienced based questioning. This is an opportunity for us to get to know you better, discuss how you fit our company culture and for you to get to know us and ask any questions you might have. We prefer to do this interview in person, but if this presents any difficulties for you, please let us know and we can arrange this virtually.

Following the interviews, we will make our final decision and notify all candidates, providing feedback to all candidates who have been interviewed.

Diversity & Inclusion

At LV=GI we value diversity and inclusion, demonstrated by our numerous accreditations; EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter, signatories of Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter, and an Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.

We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.

We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.

Accessible Application for All

As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.

Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.

ResourcingGI@allianz.co.uk

Hr-recruitment@allianz.co.uk

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