Snr Data Quant & Developer (VP, Dir), UAE

  • Abu Dhabi
  • Asterix Communications

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