Data Scientist (London)

Overview

As a Data Scientist at Voleon in London, you’ll turn complex data into actionable insights that support data-driven investment initiatives. You’ll curate, analyze, and visualize data, and communicate findings to researchers and leadership. You’ll build and monitor data pipelines, identify abnormal production behavior, and support machine learning-informed decision making. This role offers the chance to work with leading AI/ML experts and contribute to high-impact financial insights.

Pay / Benefits

• highly competitive compensation and benefits packages
• technology talks by experts
• collaborative environment

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data correctness and health monitoring in data stores and live feeds
• Identify and communicate abnormal production behavior to stakeholders
• Perform ad hoc analyses on research and production trading systems with leadership
• Conduct statistical analyses on production trading and research data to inform projects
• Design and implement pipelines that automate valuable analyses for ongoing monitoring

Key requirements

• 1+ years of applied end-to-end industry experience with complex datasets (curation, querying, aggregation, EDA, visualization)
• Experience using statistical methods to analyze data, identify patterns, root cause analysis, and insights
• Ability to frame and answer questions mathematically
• Ability to infer forward-looking directions from retrospective analyses
• Fluency in managing, processing, and visualizing tabular data using SQL, Polars, and R
• Basic software development skills and experience with bash, Linux/Unix, and Git
• Ability to refine requirements from ambiguous requests; excellent communication and clear reporting
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline (statistics, biostatistics, data science, computer science, or related)

• excellent communication
• ability to refine requirements from ambiguity
• clear reporting
• SQL
• Polars
• R

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