Principal Data Scientist

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Job description

Position Summary

IHS Markit is a global market leader in providing information, analytics and solutions for industries and markets that drive economies worldwide. The Financial Services division is the largest division within IHS Markit.

This is an opportunity to join the Advanced Analytics Team where, as a senior member, you can directly contribute to the value we deliver to our clients in Financial Services.

At IHS Markit, we have extraordinary and unique data spanning Financial Services, Energy, Economic Country Risk, Automotive, Maritime & Trade and other sectors.

If, like us, you are excited by what can be done to improve our products and services by intelligently combining this data, then you could be a great addition to the team.

Responsibilities

• Develop models, algorithms and data pipelines that leverage wealth of IHS Markit data to provide actionable insights to clients
• Lead data science product development end to end: from POC to productization
• Actively explore and identify the latest relevant techniques
• Identify opportunities for innovation across Financial Services

Requirements and Skills

• 5+ years of professional experience in Advanced Analytics / Data Science / Machine Learning / Quant, including in the Financial Services sector
• Hands on project lifecycle experience, from business analysis to productization
• Coding experience (preferably Python) to write robust and high standard code; experience with version control (preferably Git)
• Experience working with databases (e.g. SQL)
• Ability to quickly acquire new technical skills
• Experience of working with large data sets and distributed computing
• Good understanding of mathematical foundations of Machine Learning models
• Able to translate business problems into problems that can be solved with Data Science

Desirable Skills

• Econometrics / Financial Engineering background
• Time series modelling
• Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with model visualization and explainability

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