As a Lead Data Scientist, you will act as the subject matter expert in data science and advanced analytics, designing and implementing data solutions to address business challenges, with a focus on applying data science/machine learning methods. You will develop, maintain, test and evaluate data solutions within our cloud-based Big Data & Analytics Platform.

Job Responsibilities
– Manage a team of data scientists and analysts
– Lead end-to-end design and implementation of complex data science and analytics projects, utilizing appropriate approaches and techniques including machine earning, statistics, business analysis and data visualization.
– Mine and analyze data on our Big Data and Analytics platform to drive optimization and improvement of product development, market structure development and business strategies.
– Interpret and analyze data problems, and conceive, plan and prioritize data projects
– Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize client experience, revenue generation, product targeting and other business outcomes.
– Engage with Data Engineering Team to design and continuously refine platform offerings and architecture;
– Work closely with the Data Management Team to promote data quality and documentation of all work;
– Work closely with Product Manager for product and service launch, including release planning, capacity management and operational review.

Requirements:
– 10+ years of experience with designing and implementing data science solutions for business, in a commercial or consulting capacity, with demonstrated achievement in realizing business value or operation improvement;
– A degree in a relevant discipline such as Computer Science, Mathematics or other Engineering;
– Data-driven thinking;
– Experience in conceiving, planning and leading end-to-end data science projects involving a large variety of complex data sets;
– Ability to articulate the approach, interpretation and business values of data science projects and clearly communicate them to stakeholders including senior management;
– Advanced numerical and machine learning Python skills;

Preferred Skills:
– Experience in Financial Markets (e.g. exchange, brokerage, trading institution) and knowledge of financial products;
– Experience in Apache Arrow and Anaconda;
– Excellent communication skills and experience working in cross-functional teams, able to communicate effectively with both business and technical teams;

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