Associate Data Scientist

Quantexa; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data analytics firm is seeking an Associate Data Scientist to join their Graph Data Science team. The role involves building analytics tools, developing analytical pipelines, and improving methodologies. Candidates should have an academic background in a relevant field and proficiency in Python, with a passion for data science. The firm promotes diversity and offers a competitive salary, generous leave, and a hybrid work model.

Benefits

Competitive salary and company bonus

Pension scheme with contributions

25 days annual leave

Work from Anywhere scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Private healthcare

Gym discounts

Free Calm App subscription

Volunteer day off

Dog-friendly offices

Qualifications

• Aptitude and ambition to grow in data science.
• Experience in building machine learning models from scratch.
• Academic background in relevant fields.
• Proficiency in Python or similar programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Build analytics tools to detect risks and opportunities.
• Develop analytical pipelines for graph problem solving.
• Improve existing methodologies for ease of use.
• Resolve client delivery pain points.
• Deliver products in collaboration with the expert team.

Skills

Machine learning model development

Statistical analysis

Python proficiency

Analytical thinking

Education

Degree in Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or Computer Science

Tools

NetworkX

Apache Spark

Job description

What we’re all about.

It isn’t often you get to be part of a tech company that, since 2016, has been innovating the data analytics market in ways no-one else can. Our technology started out in FinTech, helping tackle serious criminal activity. Now, its potential is virtually limitless. Working at Quantexa isn't just intellectually stimulating. We’re a real team. Collaborating and constantly engineering better and better solutions. We’re ambitious, we think things through and we’re on a mission to discover just how far we can go. Nearly half of our colleagues come from an ethnic or religious minority background. We’re made up of people from 47 nationalities who speak over 20 languages. As a diverse mix of individuals, we make one big unstoppable team.

If our incredible culture sounds like you, we’d love you to join us.

Quantexa was built with a vision of enabling better decision making through better data-driven intelligence. years, 20 locations and 800+ employees later we recently gained “Unicorn” status and we still believe in our original Decision Intelligence platform. We’ve completed our first acquisition, combining Aylien’s advanced AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) into our Decision Intelligence Platform and reached Centaur status ($100M in ARR)

Position Overview

As an Associate Data Scientist, you’ll be joining a team of experts in Data Science and Software engineering within Quantexa’s Graph Data Science team. The team is continuously working on new and innovative products, helping our Tier 1 clients solve engineering and business problems in the area of fraud, compliance and financial crime. In particular, the team focusses on using graphs (connected views of our data) to add context to our decision making. This includes the use of Knowledge Graphs; Graph Machine Learning and Graph analysis.

You’ll be involved in:

• Building analytics tools to detect risk and opportunities in Quantexa data
• Building analytical pipelines for solving graph problems
• Improving our analytical tooling to help with tasks such as statistical analysis, reporting.
• Developing and improving on existing/new methodologies with a focus on ease of use and re-usability.
• Understanding common pain points on client deliveries and working to resolve these.
• Working with an expert team to deliver the products end to end up to general availability

What you’ll bring.

• Demonstrated aptitude, potential, and ambition to grow in the field of data science.
• Experience in building a machine learning model from scratch, with the ability to present and explain the process and decision-making steps.
• Academic background in Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or Computer Science (or related field), ideally with a 2:1 or First-class degree.
• Proficiency in Python (or similarly complex programming language), which is the primary programming language used.

Nice to have.

• Strong preference for candidates who have pursued data science personal projects or learning in their own time, demonstrating initiative and passion for the field of Data Science.
• A basic understanding of graph theory and its main use cases.
• Scala / Java
• Experience using AI as a coding assistant (note this isn’t an AI engineering role, but AI is used frequently within our work)
• Experience in using graph libraries in python (or similar languages) e.g. NetworkX / igraph
• An interest in software / data engineering
• Experience with spark (either pyspark or the scala API)

Why join Quantexa?

• Competitive salary and Company Bonus 💰
• Pension Scheme with a company contribution of 6% (if you contribute 3%)
• 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy up to 5 days) + birthday off! 🌴
• Work from Anywhere Scheme: Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period
• Family: Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave
• Private Healthcare with AXA
• EAP, Well-being Days, Gym Discounts 🧘
• Free Calm App Subscription #1 app for meditation, relaxation and sleep 🧘♀️
• Workplace Nursery Scheme
• Team's Social Budget & Company-wide Summer & Winter Parties
• Tech & Cycle-to-Work Schemes
• Volunteer Day off
• Dog-friendly Offices

Our mission.

We have one mission. To help businesses grow. To make data easier. And to make the world a better place. We’re not a start-up. Not anymore. But we’ve not been around that long either. What we are is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping our clients and their communities. One culture, made of many. Heading in one direction – the future.

It’s all about you.

It’s important to us that you feel welcome, valued and respected. After all, it’s your individuality and passion for what you do that will make you Q. We see that – which is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’ve created and will continue to improve our inclusive and diverse work environment. Regardless of your race, beliefs, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, neurodiversity or ableness – whoever you are – if you are a passionate, curious and caring human being who wants to push the boundaries of what’s possible, then we want to hear from you.

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