Senior Data Scientist - Constantia, South Africa - Conova

Conova
Conova
Verified Company
Constantia, South Africa

1 week ago

Thabo Mthembu

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Our client, a crypto investment app company, is seeking a Senior Data Scientist. The company is available in more than 40 countries around the world and they work closely with respective regulators to be fully compliant, as they believe this is the best way to help
everyone, everywhere, invest safely.


_ The role in a nutshell:_


You'll be focused on this critical step of creating better information from multiple data sources to guide our decision making and help them improve their processes.

They are looking for a Senior Data Scientist, familiar with financial markets and working with order book data, to provide insights and improve the company's liquidity management and performance of their broker and exchange systems.

The opportunity is a 6 month, hybrid contract, with a strong possibility of going permanent thereafter.


_ Duties include:
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  • Collaborate with treasury, engineers, product managers to optimise product performance
  • Formulating business requirements into analytical objectives
  • Hacking through complex business problems using statistics and advanced analytics to provide insights towards making better decisions and building better products

_Requirements:
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  • Expertise with financial mathematics
  • Understanding of financial markets and liquidity management (Ideal)
  • Experience using probabilistic modeling techniques to generate insights, e.g. Monte Carlo simulation (Ideal)
  • Ability to create innovative, outofthebox solutions by leveraging analytics, data science and statistics
  • Naturally curious and persistent when gathering and synthesizing facts, theories, trends, patterns, inferences, and key issues in complex questions and variable situations
  • Track record of diagnosing problems using formal problemsolving tools and techniques
  • MSc degree or higher in the natural sciences or technical fields (Ideal)
  • Handle uncertain and ambiguous scenarios
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