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Data Scientist

Optimus E2E Ltd
London
1 month ago
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Are you passionate about delivering real value to an organisation using advanced techniques in data science and machine learning? We are looking for multiple talented senior data scientists for our leading FinTech client. These role presents an opportunity for you to partner with stakeholders across all areas of the business, including marketing, risk, customer services and quants, to deliver impactful data products using state-of-the-art machine learning technique

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead high-impact projects, being a technical thought leader and subject matter expert in classic Machine Learning as well as advanced and generative AI.
  • Explore a variety of data from structured to unstructured data spanning client, operational and financial domains to identify opportunities for data science that add value to the business.
  • Advance the use of AI within the business by building our next generation data products, e.g. recommendation systems, chatbots, text analytics systems, pricing and hedging optimisation and automatic insight generation systems.
  • Work with stakeholders from across the business to turn business problems into data science solutions. Mentor junior members of the department, helping them grow

Experience

  • Implementing machine learning in production using in-house or third-party data science platforms
  • Building machine learning models; experience in Natural Language Processing, Time-Series prediction, Neural Networks and Recommendation Systems will be advantageous.
  • You possess excellent communication skills, explaining complicated concepts to non-technical colleagues.
  • Generating insights from complex data sources.


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