Senior Data Scientist
Description
- The Emerging Tech Standard Delivery Team drives the adoption of advanced technologies and develops enterpriseready solutions for D&A Operations.
- In this role, the individual partners with Operations and Technology teams to design datadriven solutions that deliver clear business and customer value.
- The position requires strong expertise in data analytics, NLP, deep learning, and data communication, along with the ability to learn financial content and core D&A business processes.
- The individual must stay current with emerging technologies and collaborate closely with operations groups and specialized machine learning teams to deliver scalable, highimpact solutions.
Role, Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:
- Own the product vision for an industryleading data management framework, covering data acquisition, cleaning, transformation, and related workflows.
- Support Lead Data Scientist on end-to-end AI/ML lifecycle: problem definition, design, experimentation, deployment, and continuous improvement.
- Define an optimized user experience for financial analytics data pipelines, unifying multiple tools and services into an integrated workflow.
- Partner with analytics domain experts to understand business data needs and translate them into a practical platform and framework strategy.
- Lead the execution of this strategy in close collaboration with engineering and project delivery teams.
- Communicate product goals, progress, and achievements to product, engineering, business leaders, sales, proposition, support, and other internal stakeholders.
- Stay informed on financial analytics market trends to maintain a forwardlooking, futureready strategy.
- Continuously learn and adapt to emerging technologies and techniques in financial analytics.
- Develop and deploy productiongrade AI models and datadriven solutions aligned with strategic objectives.
- Tune and optimize AI models to improve accuracy, performance, and scalability.
- Evaluate thirdparty AI capabilities using both functional and nonfunctional criteria.
- Establish and enforce coding standards to ensure a maintainable, robust codebase.
- Collaborate with Software Engineers and crossfunctional teams to define requirements, set direction, and shape development roadmaps.
- Handson experience in data science, including Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, prompt engineering, and RetrievalAugmented Generation (RAG).
- Skilled in training, testing, and validating deep learning models as well as classical machine learning models.
- Ability to design and implement evaluation frameworks for automation solutions based on business requirements.
- Experience building solutions and onboarding workloads on AWS or other cloud platforms.
- Expertise in web crawling and scraping techniques, entity identification and extraction, and advanced pre and postprocessing methods using emerging technologies such as prompt engineering.
- Proficient in processing structured, semistructured, and unstructured data from PDFs and scanned documents.
Required Skills:
- 6-8 years of experience in data science, analytics, or statistical modelling roles.
- Strong foundation in data analytics, feature engineering, NLP, predictive modelling, LLMs, and RAG workflows.
- Expertise in Python and core ML/DL libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikitlearn), with demonstrated experience in developing and productionizing AI models.
- Proven ability to apply strong statistical analysis skills, including probability and applied statistics, to model development and evaluation.
- Experience with Gitbased version control and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab/GitHub runners). Strong understanding of relational databases, largescale data processing, and statistical programming.
- Familiarity with MLOps principles and experience deploying solutions on cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure).
- Handson experience with commercial or opensource data management tools.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of simplifying complex technical concepts for both technical and business audiences.
- Strong influencing and collaboration skills, supporting crossteam execution and alignment. Ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical and business problems using deep analytical and industry knowledge
- Ability to set and uphold coding standards.
- Hands-on experience with leading commercial or open-source data management tools.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to present to peers, senior management, and cross-functional partners.
- Broad business awareness and understanding of relevant internal business relationships.
Preferred
- Experience in large financial services or investment banking environments.
- Familiarity with Refinitiv or LSEG products and financial data workflows.
- Experience working with global or distributed teams.
- Comfort interacting with senior stakeholders, including executives and Csuite partners.
Education:
- Masters degree in Statistics, Mathematics, or Computer Science with a Data Science certification, or an Engineering degree specializing in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
- Proficiency in Python, R, and SQL.
