Cubist Data Scientist

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We are passionate about data. We collaborate to build elegant, effective, scalable and highly reliable solutions to empower predictive modelling in finance.

Cubist’s Data Services (CDS) group is looking for a Data Scientist to join our dedicated data team. Our group is responsible for the timely delivery of comprehensive and error-free data to some of the most demanding and successful systematic Portfolio Managers in the world.

As a Data Scientist in the team, this individual will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day implementation of a large research infrastructure, and the live production trading of billions of dollars of capital across global capital markets, including equities, futures, options and other financial instruments.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Onboarding novel datasets from a huge variety of sources into our platform
• Develop, test and deploy data pipelines, applications and services
• Re-shaping, aggregating, enhancing and creating features from datasets
• Engaging with vendors and internal stakeholders to understand characteristics of datasets
• Defining and automating qualitative data alerts and reports
• Partnering closely with investment teams to ensure their data requirements are met
• Perform preliminary analysis and research to be shared with investment teams

REQUIREMENTS

• Masters in Financial Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science or other disciplines involving rigorous quantitative analysis
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
• Experience working with AWS, Linux and Airflow preferred but not required
• Financial industry experience preferred but not required
• Strong organization, communication and interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail and a love of processes
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to exercise sound judgment in assessing and determining how to handle queries, calls and issues
• Ability to multitask and prioritize assignments
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards