Data Scientist / ML Engineer - Long-term Contract

Long-term contract opportunity with potential to hire full time. 2-3 days in office.

Financial analytics and technology and services firm headquartered in NYC with clients spanning buy and sell side firms is looking to hire a ML Engineer to join their data science team working closely with product development and technology project team members to help propel data products that consolidate all financing and capital markets data for every market, product, function and counterparty.

Responsibilities:

Improve and innovate models including statistical and machine learning techniques across various asset-classes e.g. Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, FX etc.

Develop predictive analytics models using Machine Learning

Develop POC

Visualize and explore data sets to enable the idea generation of new, predictive features

Perform back testing

Work with IT for implementation including spec design and testing

Ensure daily data quality checks in production and more

Required - Competencies/Experiences

Advanced degree in Financial Engineering or similar with concentration on Data Science

5+years of experience in ML or data science focused role utilizing python back-end development

Experience in applying machine learning methods (distribution analysis, regression, classification, clustering, LLM, etc.)

Strong development skills using Python including writing production-ready code, implementation and deployment

Experience with SQL Server

Capital Markets knowledge

Desirable

Azure

Experience of Prime Brokerage, Securities Lending, Counterparty Risk