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# Data Scientist

- **Company:** The Voleon Group
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £50,000.0 - £84,000.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Algorithmic Trading, Data Analysis, Bash Shell, Big Data, Unix, Continuous Integration, Data Stores, Linux, Monitoring of Systems, Machine Learning, Standard Sql, SQL Databases, Git, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5899591919

## About the Role

* 1+ years of applied end-to-end industry experience, including internships working with complex datasets, including curation, querying, aggregation, exploratory data analysis, and visualization
 * Experience using statistical methods to analyze data, identify patterns, conduct root cause analysis, discover insights, and recommend solutions
 * Ability to frame and answer questions mathematically
 * Ability to infer useful forward-looking directions from results of retrospective analysis
 * Fluency in managing, processing, and visualizing tabular data using a combination of SQL, polars, and R
 * Basic software development skills and experience with bash, linux/unix, and git
 * Ability to refine requirements from ambiguous requests
 * Excellence in communication and ability to produce complete and clear reports
 * Bachelors degree in a quantitative discipline (statistics, biostatistics, data science, computer science, or a related field)
 * Masters degree in a quantitative discipline is preferred
 * Prior industry experience or displayed interest in finance, such as related academic projects, coursework in financial engineering, or industry internships is preferred
 * Experience developing in a production-facing environment and familiarity with standard concepts and tooling, e.g., CI/CD, Airflow is preferred

## Description

* Find insights from a complex array of data
 * Conduct data curation, analysis, interpretation, visualization, and communication of findings to members of the research staff and leadership
 * Design and implement systems to ensure data correctness and monitor data health in data stores and live feeds
 * Proactively identify abnormal production behavior and communicate it clearly to relevant stakeholders
 * Perform extemporaneous analyses on research and production trading systems with leadership
 * Perform statistical analyses on production trading data and research data to inform further projects
 * Design and implement analysis pipelines that automate valuable analyses for ongoing monitoring

Technologies:

 * AI
 * Airflow
 * Bash
 * CI/CD
 * Git
 * Linux
 * Machine Learning
 * SQL
 * Unix


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