Data Scientist/ML Engineer

Snaphunt

1 year ago

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The Offer

Work within a company with a solid track record of success
Leadership Role
Flexible working options

The Job

You will be responsible for :

Developing scripts to process structured and unstructured data.
Recommending, developing and implementing ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality.
Supporting translation of data business needs into technical system requirements.
Working with stakeholders to understand needs in order with respect to data structure, availability, scalability and accessibility.
Defining, developing and maintaining reports to support decision making.
Processing & Interpreting data to get actionable insights.
Working closely with business users to understand their data analysis needs/requirements.
Developing high-quality code to build and deploy machine learning models.
Identifying trends, doing follow-up analysis, preparing visualizations.

The Profile

You possess a degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering or related field.
You have at least 3 years experience, ideally within a Data Analyst or Data Engineer role.
Demonstrated experience working with large and complex data sets as well as experience analyzing volumes of data.
You have good presentation and communication skills and the ability to present you findings clearly and accessibly in the form of reports and presentations to senior colleagues.
You have working knowledge of Artificial intelligence
You are highly goal driven and work well in fast paced environments
You possess strong analytical skills and are comfortable dealing with numerical data
You enjoy finding creative solutions to problems

The Employer

Our client is a progressive and flourishing prop trading firm, and trading education provider. Our client is based in London, and at the moment have a team of highly trained properly trading professionals, managing the company’s extensive funds on our City of London based trading floor.

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