Data Scientist - London

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Quantitative Analyst / Data Scientist

London

A prestigious Hedge Fund based in London is looking to bring on a quantitative analyst who has a background within machine learning/data science. The right individual will end up joining a team of exceptional investment professionals with the role providing a route into risk-taking in the future

The role will have two key focus areas:

* Maintaining and contributing to surveillance of the financial markets

* Be able to evaluate and monitor factors such as e.g. market volatility, correlation breaks, statistic relationships, flows

* Assist the portfolio team in intraday market moves

* Use of systematic market monitoring on aggregating fundamental research for the capture of pricing dislocations

* Minimum Masters Degree (preferable PhD) in quantitative discipline such as computer science, machine learning, data science, mathematics, econometrics or statistics from a Top Tier University

* Graduate to 5 years experience in the financial markets

* Knowledge of fixed income instruments (incl. bond maths and derivative pricing dynamics)

* Knowledge of machine learning and algorithm design

Keywords: fixed income, data science, machine learning, quantitative