What are the responsibilities and job description for the Actuarial Developer position at Lockton?
Your Responsibilities
This position is responsible for building the frameworks, services, and tools that empower internal actuarial teams across Lockton Re. The person will code algorithms/skills and create/maintain tables for use in an AI and react frontend UI framework to perform actuarial modeling projects. We’re looking for a talented Software Engineer to help build the next generation of AI-powered developer tooling, tools that Lockton Re actuaries and analysts depend on every day. In this role, you’ll use AI to transform the actuarial analysis process end-to-end — from initial development through testing, deployment, and beyond. Skills to create and code AI agents skill sets to be used in a broader AI framework preferred.
What You Will Do:
Who you are:
This position is responsible for building the frameworks, services, and tools that empower internal actuarial teams across Lockton Re. The person will code algorithms/skills and create/maintain tables for use in an AI and react frontend UI framework to perform actuarial modeling projects. We’re looking for a talented Software Engineer to help build the next generation of AI-powered developer tooling, tools that Lockton Re actuaries and analysts depend on every day. In this role, you’ll use AI to transform the actuarial analysis process end-to-end — from initial development through testing, deployment, and beyond. Skills to create and code AI agents skill sets to be used in a broader AI framework preferred.
What You Will Do:
- Hands-on role in developing and supporting both new and existing platform features, partnering closely with cross-functional teams to navigate the complex interdependencies of large-scale application development.
- Design, build, and optimize scalable backend services and APIs using React and Python — powering the developer efficiency workflows that engineers rely on every day.
- Write clean, maintainable, and thoroughly tested code that reflects a high bar for engineering excellence.
- Actively contribute to code reviews, architectural discussions, and production incident response — sharing knowledge, raising the bar, and elevating quality across the team
- Working with actuaries to finalize specifications for development.
Who you are:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of insurance industry experience designing and building scalable, high-performance backend systems, with hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, containerization, and data pipelines.
- Strong programming proficiency in Python, with hands-on experience in relational databases and scalable service-oriented architectures.
- Experience developing AI agents using frameworks such as LangGraph, Claude Agent, and similar libraries
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Ability to create AI prompting and skillsets for use by AI agents – experience preferred
- Solid understanding of data structures & actuarial algorithms
- Hands-on experience with NumPy, Pandas
- Experience with REST APIs (FastAPI / Flask / Django)
- Experience with Github and Azure DevOps
- Experience working with large datasets
- Actuarial modeling experience preferred