Data Scientist - Trading

Company:  Selby Jennings
Location: Chicago
Closing Date: 24/10/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description

In this position, you will:

  • Collaborate with trading teams to analyze trading outcomes, linking profit and loss metrics with latency and other infrastructure data.
  • Explore how changes in infrastructure technology impact business metrics.
  • Conduct research to develop models that assess exchange performance.
  • Create mathematical methods to evaluate how specific internal applications influence overall performance.
  • Design advanced algorithms to identify new business opportunities, detect performance issues, or pinpoint events affecting profit and loss.
  • Contribute to the creation of novel datasets.
  • Enhance and refine quantitative research methodologies.
  • Perform additional related tasks as needed.


Required Skills:

  • Over 3 years of experience programming in Python with a focus on data science and analytics.
  • Strong ability to interpret data with a critical mindset.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills.
  • Proficient in documenting and presenting analysis to both technical and business stakeholders, including senior leadership.
  • Background in statistics.
  • Experience with SQL is advantageous.
  • Familiarity with Machine Learning techniques is a plus.
  • Understanding of network protocols (IP, UDP, TCP, Ethernet) is beneficial.
  • Dependable and consistent availability.

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