Our client is a global investment firm built around world-class talent, sound risk management, and innovative market-leading technology. They are currently searching for a Data Analytics and Visualisation Engineer to work in their Chicago office. The ideal candidate will help grow the Central Data Organisation. Data is the foundation of the investment strategy and the effective management of data in its various forms (both structured and unstructured) is critical to maintaining the expansion of the firm.
Responsibilities:
- Assist Investment Research Analysts in the empirical valuation and forecasting of securities to aid in the ongoing portfolio research process.
- Support ongoing evaluation of financial information from financial data providers and other sources that lead to superior investment research strategies.
- Build tools and services to enhance and distribute critical research data content and distribute portfolio analytics within the investment research team.
- Design, develop and deploy full stack responsive applications, involving technology platforms from both the front and back end services.
Suggested skills / experience
- Solid training from a leading academic institution in Software Engineering, Economics, Finance
- High attention to detail while working in a fast-paced environment
- Strong analytical and computational skills
- Tenacious with strong problem solving capabilities
- Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle
- 3+ years' experience with cluster/cloud technologies & BI Tools (e.g. Apache Spark, AWS, Tableau)
- 3+ years' experience in Python
- 3+ years' experience with web technologies (HTML / CSS /JSON / REST)
- Exposure to Node.js, Angular.js JavaScript frameworks desired
Education
- Bachelors Degree in engineering or computer science or related field of study. Masters preferred
If you would like to be considered for the position of Data Analytics and Visualization Engineer or wish to discuss it further please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our search team.
