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Markets Data Scientist

Summary

Builds and optimizes data pipelines to turn raw trading and position data into insights for risk and market analysis, using Python, SQL, and Tableau.

Overview

  • Leading the optimisation of high-performance pipelines of trading and position data, transforming millions of daily records into model-ready datasets for risk and market analysis
  • Owning the design and insights from interactive dashboards and web apps, turning unique regulatory markets data into system-wide views across fixed income, commodities, FX and equities helping stakeholders build a detailed understanding firm and sector risks through flow and exposure data
  • Leading analysis on diverse and stimulating issues, empowering market abuse, policy and supervisory teams to make informed, timely decisions whilst gaining exposure to a broad range of markets and financial products
  • Supporting colleagues and growing your technical skills to impactful challenges and play a key role in shaping how data are harnessed to monitor and supervise firms and markets

Qualifications

  • Demonstrable and advanced data science and engineering experience within a financial markets context
  • Able to design efficient SQL (Redshift) and Python code for complex ETL pipelines and feature engineering
  • Substantial experience with joining, analysing, manipulating commercial and regulatory data for visualisation (Tableau) and apps
  • Demonstrable experience in utilising data analytics tools and libraries (Pandas, PySpark, etc)
  • Understanding of financial markets
  • Experience in applying machine learning techniques to market data
  • Experienced in developing user-friendly analytical products, e.g self-service tools, or web applications
  • Ability to effectively engage with a range of stakeholders

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