Description
A Trading & Shipping business are looking for a Data Engineer to join them on a remote 6 month contract. If you have experience across the following, please apply!
- Technical skills
- SQL and RDBMs - Data Engineering
- Python programming, including knowledge of pandas, numpy, Jupyter. Ability to write production ready, highly reliable, tuned (pythonic) numerical code
- Dataiku/Alteryx/Altair or similar data science & data engineering products
- Data visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau and Plotly
- Excel/VBA programming/reverse engineering skills
- Data Analysis, modelling and design skills
- Strong analytical, reasoning and mathematical skills. Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience of working in agile teams and using tools such as JIRA/Azure DevOps
- Software development industry best practice, including unit, integration and regression testing. Data testing. Build and deploy patterns.
- Background in Trading/Financial services/Risk analytics/Insurance/eCommerce/Healthcare/Pharmaceuticals/FMCG domains or industries
- Experience of using financial/timeseries market data
Desirable knowledge (not essential)
- Certified Agile practitioners/scrum masters with experience of implementing agile work practices
- Certified Dataiku practitioners with experience of building models in Dataiku
- Experience of optimising data pipelines and building scalable/high performance data solutions
- Experience in ModelOps
- Quantitative skills - Knowledge of statistics, probability theory and optimisation
- Advanced python knowledge and data science knowledge - To include econometrics, OLS and Lasso, Logistic Regression, CART and Random Forests, SVMs, NNs, Radial Basis Functions and Kernel methods.
- The scientific python stack including SciPy, scikit-learn, Statsmodels
- Energy Trading, Commodities trading, Fundamental market data & Derivative pricing experience.