Feature Engineering Pricing Practioner

About Us

At Direct Line Group, insurance is just the start. Combining decades of industry experience with talented people in every field, we're a customer-obsessed market powerhouse. And we all work together to be brilliant for customers, every single day.

Pricing and Underwriting is a complicated world, where historical data, geospatial information, and mathematical models meet talented analysts. Pricing our products is a fine line between balancing our business goals and customer needs. That's why our Pricing Practitioners, Data Scientists and Underwriters are the best of the best. They reduce risk and predict future events ensuring our business can continue to grow whilst each and every one of our consumers gets the best price.

Join us as a Feature Engineering Pricing Practitioner in the wider Risk Pricing team within our Home Tribe.

What you'll be doing

Working in an agile way means you'll take charge early on, soak up new experiences and most importantly you'll positively influence and shape what we do - making an impact on our customers lives. We'll utilise your skills where they are most needed whilst also giving you to opportunity to build and grow the breadth of your expertise.

Working within the Home Feature Engineering team, you will be at the heart of creating new and improved Risk factors that allow DLG to fully understand what drives claim costs, across all of the Home perils. You'll be able to combine a wealth of external and in-house data with industry-leading technology to explore the underlying trends that add sophistication to our pricing. You'll be making an impact from start to finish, from data preparation, to model builds, to deployment into live pricing!

What you'll need

• Degree in numerate subject
• Graduate level intakes will be considered
• Relevant insurance pricing knowledge ideal but not essential
• Proficient user of Microsoft Office
• Experience of using SQL, Python, RADAR & EMBLEM ideal but not essential
• Experience of using ArcGIS or a passion for geographical/spatial analysis

Ways of working

Our hybrid model way of working offers a 'best of both worlds' approach combining the best parts of home and office-working, offering flexibility for everyone. When you'll be in the office depends on your role, but most colleagues are in 2 days a week, and we'll consider the flexible working options that work best for you.

Office location - Leeds, London, Manchester or Bristol

Read our flexible working approach here

What we'll give you (Band 3)

We wouldn't be where we are today without our people and the wide variety of perspectives and life experiences they bring. That's why we offer excellent benefits to suit your lifestyle and a flexible working model combining the best parts of home and office-working, varying with the nature of your role. Our core benefits include:

• 9% employer contributed pension

• 50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus free travel insurance and Green Flag breakdown cover

• Additional optional Health and Dental insurance

• Up to 10% bonus

• EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax efficient way.

• 25 days annual leave, increasing each year up to a maximum of 28

• Buy as you earn share scheme

• Employee discounts and cashback

• Plus many more!

Being Yourself

Difference makes us who we are. We believe everyone should feel comfortable to bring their whole selves to work - that's why we champion diverse voices, build workplaces that work for people, and invest in the things that matter. From senior leadership to inclusivity networks, adaptive working to inclusion training, we've made it our mission to give you everything you need to be authentically you. Discover more at

Together we're one of a kind.