Data Scientist

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. 

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders. 

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income. 

Who we are 

Our Retail business supports customers throughout their lives, to help them save, plan, protect and enjoy retirement.

We’re a leading provider of retirement and protection solutions. We aim to support our c.12.8 million policyholders and workplace members throughout their lifelong financial journeys. 

We focus on helping the customers of today and tomorrow achieve better long-term outcomes. We either talk with them directly or work with intermediaries and employers to meet their needs. We use the latest technology to connect with them quickly, efficiently and wherever possible in highly personalised ways. 

Retail Insight are hiring for a Data Scientist to join a growing central function supporting analytics, data science and advanced insight across a broad retail landscape. This role sits at the intersection of analytics, data science and emerging technologies, with a strong focus on enabling better decision making, setting standards, and accelerating the use of data across the business.

You will work collaboratively with technical colleagues and business stakeholders, helping to shape how data science is applied while remaining hands on with modelling, experimentation and solution delivery.

What you'll be doing:

• Developing and delivering data science models to support decision making and automation
• Working with stakeholders to understand business problems and translate them into data science solutions
• Exploring, sourcing and engineering data from multiple systems to support analytical and modelling activity
• Building, adapting and reusing machine learning models using Python and SQL
• Contributing to the migration of legacy data and reporting solutions onto modern cloud platforms
• Creating intuitive visual outputs and interfaces to improve access to data and insights
• Helping define and promote standards for data science tools, approaches and ways of working
• Collaborating with other data professionals to productionise and maintain scalable solutions

Who we're looking for:

• Experience developing data science or machine learning solutions in a commercial or advanced analytical environment
• Strong skills in Python and SQL for data manipulation, modelling and analysis
• Experience working with large, complex datasets and applying appropriate data quality checks
• A solid understanding of a range of machine learning techniques and when to apply them
• Confidence explaining technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders
• Familiarity with modern data platforms and tooling such as cloud data warehouses or analytics engineering tools
• A proactive, curious approach and the ability to work independently with minimal direction
• A degree in a quantitative discipline or equivalent practical experience

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.