Position Overview & Specifications
Junior Data Scientist - London
Job Summary
We are looking to recruit a candidate to work as a Junior Data Analyst in one of our Long/Short Equity teams. Your job will involve discovering information hidden in vast amounts of data.
Job Location: London
Qualifications/Skills Required
- Education: Bachelors or higher within relevant area of study such as Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics or similar.
- Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms (k-NN, Naïve Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests etc).
- Experience with common data science toolkits such as R, Weka, NumPy, MatLab etc.
- Great communication skills
- Good applied statistics skills, such as distribution, statistical testing, regression etc.
- Good scripting and programming skills preferred
- Data-oriented personality
- Relevant work experience preferred
- Your primary focus will be in applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis and building high quality prediction systems.
- Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
- Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
- Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
- Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear and timely manner
- Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
- Conducting industry and company-specific research
- Initiating and developing primary industry contacts
- Committing your daily efforts to the highest levels of professionalism, integrity, and excellence
- Ensuring the accuracy and quality of all of your recommendation materials
- Supporting fundamental research into companies, industries, and sectors