Snr Data Quant - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Millar Associates

Description

Large Investment Manager: Python, Data Applications, Alternative Data/AI, Market Data, Dashboards, etc.

KEY RESONSIBILITIES:

• Manage vendors and data trials
• Catalogue, onboard & ingest raw data and assess data quality
• Structure frozen and live datasets for statistical analysis and production
• Work collaboratively in research and/or production squads to implement research prototypes and production applications
• Standardize and map symbologies across datasets from various vendors
• Building interactive dashboard or data API to explore/analyze data and insights
• Proprietary Dataset Creation. Proficiency in building custom in-house datasets or refining alternative data
• Automated Data Evaluation (not data monitoring). Automatic assessment of data value for investment purposes

KEY SKILLS:

• Strong, hands-on experience of developing of Data applications
• Experience gained in a leading hedge fund or quantitative fund manager a distinct advantage
• Extensive experience with modelling and querying timeseries Datasets (> billions of data points).
• Expertise in extracting, cleaning, and structuring data from a mess data, including PDFs, text documents, irregular JSON, websites
• Excellent Python, analytical SQL, PostgreSQL / SQL Server
• A good Masters in a scientific discipline will be essential
  NB. No investment experience required.