Our Client passionate about data. They collaborate to build elegant, effective, scalable and highly reliable solutions to empower predictive modelling in finance. The data services group is looking for a Data Scientist to join our dedicated team. The group is responsible for the timely delivery of comprehensive and error-free data to some of the most demanding and successful systematic Portfolio Managers in the world. This exceptional individual will be a member of a small team of Data Scientists who play a vital role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day implementation of a large research infrastructure, and the live production trading of billions of dollars of capital across global capital markets, including equities, futures, options and other financial instruments.
Responsibilities:
- Identification of new data sets
- Engaging with vendors to understand characteristics of datasets
- Building processes and technology tools to ingest, tag and clean datasets
- Analysis of datasets to generate descriptive statistics and propose potential applications of data
- Research of potential “alpha signals” for presentation to Portfolio Managers
- Monitoring and enhancing the automated data collection and cleansing infrastructure
- Research on new technologies for improved data management and efficient retrieval
Required Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics or another disciplines involving rigorous quantitative analysis techniques. At least 1 year of experience as a Data Scientist, quantitative researcher or in a similar role.
- Experience working with large data sets, including classification, regression, distribution analysis, and predictive modeling
- Experience applying statistical tests to large data sets
- Programming skills in SQL, TSQL, SQL Server or PL-SQL
- Programming skills in Python and at least one of C#, C++, or Java
- Financial industry experience preferred but not required
- Experience dealing with intraday, tick and order book data a plus
- Strong problem solving skills
- Intellectual curiosity and a love of learning
- Attention to detail and a love of proces
If you meet the required qualifications and are interested in this role, please apply today.
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