Position - Senior Associate Data Scientist
Role Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:
- Supports projects, leveraging technical expertise to remove obstacles and to find creative solutions.
- Builds data science products and solutions utilising data science techniques directly.
- Creates compelling proposals with technologists and business to drive innovation from conception to production that are fit for purpose to original business requirement
- Builds and uses domain expertise in financial market content, data science and LSEG data and products.
- Writes highly optimised code for LSEG products and solutions.
Essential Skill Set:
Programming languages
Python
OLAP tools (Spark)
SQL(any flavour)
Visualisation tools
Plotly/Dash
Version Control
BitBucket
Git
Atlassian tools
Jira
Confluence
IDE
(Familiarity with) PyCharm/any other popular IDE
AWS infrastructure
Amazon SageMaker
S3
Regulatory Knowledge
MiFID II
MAR
Degree specialism (or equivalent)
Computer Science
Statistics
Maths
Degree grade (or equivalent)
2:1 or above
Relevant experience
4 to 5 years experience in a Data Science related role
Personality traits
Comfortable in dynamic/fast-paced environment
Good listener
Objective
Additional Desirable Skill Set:
Programming languages
Bash
Unix Shell
R
Any widely used OOP language
Tools
Jupyter Notebook
Visualisation tools
RShiny
Tableau
PowerBI
Market Data
Refinitiv (Workspaces, RDP, VBD, DSS, DSP)
Marketmap
Bloomberg
Market Data
Refinitiv (concept of Eikon GUI or Electron Datascope Select metadata characteristics)
DevOps
Control-M
Jenkins
AWS infrastructure
EC2
EMR
Lambda
Operating Systems
Linux
Regulatory Knowledge
MiFID I
FSMA 2000
FCA Handbook
UKLA DTR
Certificates (or equivalent)
AWS Cloud Practitioner
AWS Machine Learning
AWS Developer
AWS Data Analytics
IMC
CISI
CFA
BAT Score > 525
IOC
Degree specialism (or equivalent)
Economics
Econometrics
Engineering
Physics
Degree grade (or equivalent)
1st
Personality traits
Efficient
Clear & concise communicator
At LSEG, we believe that creating a diverse and inclusive organisation is fundamental to the way we deliver on our promise of creating essential partnerships and open opportunities. Our open culture is central to how we deliver our purpose – driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth – in everything we do.
