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Junior Data Scientist
Vantage Point GlobalJunior Data Scientist role at Vantage Point Global involving data analysis and collaboration with industry professionals in financial services.
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesNumpyPandasPythonPyTorchScikit-LearnSQLTableauTensorflow
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- On this programme, you’ll experience working in London within a Financial Services company.
- After, you will move to the client site, helping to deliver key outcomes alongside industry professionals.
- You will work closely with senior data scientists, product managers, and brokerage desks to design solutions that optimise trade lifecycle efficiency, enhance market data quality, and automate legacy workflows.
- Build and maintain scalable data pipelines using Python and SQL to ingest, process, and store real-time and historical market data.
- Analyze internal operational metrics (e.g., trade processing times, system latency, and STP/Straight-Through Processing rates) to identify bottlenecks and operational improvements.
- Assist in developing machine learning models and predictive analytics for post-trade services, compliance monitoring, and data quality assurance.
- Partner with global sales, broking, and technology teams to understand business requirements and translate them into robust data models.
- Create intuitive data visualisations and automated reporting dashboards (e.g., using Tableau, Power BI, or Python-based UIs) to provide actionable insights for operations management.
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Finance, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Strong coding skills in Python, alongside proficiency in querying and managing data with SQL.
- Familiarity with data manipulation libraries (Pandas, NumPy) and machine learning frameworks (Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch).
- Basic understanding of version control (Git) and BI/visualisation tools.
- Advanced Excel capabilities are highly valued for trading desk integration.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with a high degree of attention to detail and data integrity.
- Knowledge of financial markets (Fixed Income, OTC derivatives, or FX) and an understanding of front-to-back trading operations are significant advantages.
Benefits
Comp & perks- Health cash plan coverage.
- Cycle to work scheme.
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLdata manipulationPandasNumPymachine learningScikit-LearnTensorFlowPyTorchExcel
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solvingattention to detaildata integrity