Data Scientist / London / $ Base and Bonus

Leading multi manager are hiring a data scientist to their London team to work closely with some of their most successful portfolio managers across global capital markets.

Role :-

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

Monitoring and enhancing the automated data collection and cleansing infrastructure

Research on new technologies for improved data management and efficient retrieval

Requirements:-

Ph.D. in computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics or another discipline involving rigorous quantitative analysis techniques

3+ years 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 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

Apply:-

Please send a PDF resume to quants@ekafinance.com