Data Scientist - Entry Level (Remote)

Job_Summary:

The Voleon Group is a technology company specializing in AI and machine learning for finance, seeking to advance their data-driven investment initiatives. As a Data Scientist, you will harvest insights from complex data through curation, analysis, visualization, and communication to enhance investment management practices.

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 demonstrating excellence in communication

• 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.