Junior Data Scientist – Trading Operations

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Job Summary:

The Voleon Group is a technology company that specializes in applying AI and machine learning to finance. As a Data Scientist in Trading Operations, you will analyze complex datasets to provide insights and enhance trading strategies, collaborating closely with the Quantitative Trading Strategy team.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement systems to ensure data correctness and monitor data health in data stores and live feeds

• Proactively identify abnormal production behavior and communicate them clearly to relevant stakeholders

• Perform extemporaneous analyses on research and production trading systems with leadership

• Harness financial expertise and statistical analysis to gain actionable insights into our production trading and research systems

• Design and implement analysis pipelines that automate those analyses found to be valuable for ongoing monitoring

Qualifications:

Required:

• 1+ years of applied end-to-end industry experience, including internships working with complex datasets, including curation, querying, aggregation, exploratory data analysis, and visualization

• Experience using statistical methods to analyze data, identify patterns, conduct root cause analysis, discover insights, and recommend solutions

• Ability to frame and answer questions mathematically

• Ability to infer useful forward-looking directions from results of retrospective analysis

• Fluency in managing, processing, and visualizing tabular data using a combination of SQL, Pandas, and R

• Basic software development skills and experience with bash, Linux/Unix, and git

• Ability to refine requirements from ambiguous requests to produce reports

• Excellent communication skills

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline (statistics, biostatistics, data science, computer science, or a related field)

Preferred:

• Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline

• Prior industry experience or displayed interest in finance, such as related academic projects, coursework in financial engineering, or industry internships

• Experience developing in a production-facing environment and familiarity with standard concepts and tooling, e.g., CI/CD, git, Airflow

Company:

The Voleon Group is a family of companies committed to the development & deployment of cutting-edge technologies in investment management. Founded in 2008, the company is headquartered in Berkeley, California, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage. The Voleon Group has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.