Data Scientist – AI/ML for Finance (Hybrid, London)

The Voleon Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

The Voleon Group in London seeks a data scientist to uncover insights from complex financial data. You will curate, analyze, and visualize data, communicating findings to the research staff and leadership in a clear and actionable way.

The role requires statistics and ML experience, strong mathematical thinking, and the ability to work in a hybrid, production-influenced environment within our Research department.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of end-to-end data experience in industry or internships with complex datasets
• Experience using statistical methods to analyze data, identify patterns, and derive insights
• Ability to frame and answer questions mathematically
• Ability to infer forward-looking directions from retrospective analysis
• Fluency in managing, processing, and visualizing tabular data using SQL, Polars and R
• Basic software development skills with Bash, Linux/Unix and Git
• Ability to refine requirements from ambiguous requests
• Excellent communication and ability to produce clear reports
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline; master's preferred
• Prior finance-interest or related projects/internships preferred
• Experience in production-facing environments with familiarity to CI/CD, Airflow is preferred

Responsibilities

• Find insights from a complex array of data
• Curation, analysis, interpretation, visualization, and communication of findings to research staff and leadership
• Design and implement systems to ensure data correctness and monitor data health in stores and feeds
• Identify abnormal production behavior and communicate it clearly to stakeholders
• Perform extemporaneous analyses on research and production trading systems with leadership
• Perform statistical analyses on production trading data and research data to inform further projects
• Design and implement analysis pipelines that automate valuable analyses for ongoing monitoring

Skills

Data analysis

Statistical methods

Mathematical framing

Communication

Report writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative discipline

Master's degree preferred

Tools

SQL

Polars

R

Bash

Git

Job description

The Voleon Group in London seeks a data scientist to uncover insights from complex financial data. You will curate, analyze, and visualize data, communicating findings to the research staff and leadership in a clear and actionable way.

The role requires statistics and ML experience, strong mathematical thinking, and the ability to work in a hybrid, production-influenced environment within our Research department.