Point72
Cubist Data Scientist
2w ago
USAdata pipelinesfeature engineeringdata analysis
Data Scientist role responsible for data pipeline development and research infrastructure support in finance.
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
Other
- 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.