Data Scientist

Job Title: Data Scientist

Job Duration: 12 months

Job Location: London, UK

Detailed Job Description:

• Working as part of a cross-functional agile team, collaborating with others to understand requirements, analysing and refining stories, designing solutions, implementing and testing them

• Applying Behaviour Driven Development techniques, collaborating closely with users, analysts, developers and other testers

• Writing code and writing it well. Be proud to call yourself a programmer. Use test driven development, write clean code and refactor constantly. Make sure we are building the thing right

• Ensuring that the software you build is reliable and easy to support in production. Being prepared to take your turn on call providing 3rd line support when it's needed

• Helping define the architecture of the components you are working on

• Helping your team to build, test and release software with the short lead times and a minimum of waste. Working to develop and maintain a highly automated Continuous Delivery pipeline

• Contributing towards a culture of learning and continuous improvement within your team and beyond

Mandatory Skills :

• Hands On experience for development & maintenance of data ingestion and transformation processes on the Cloudera based Secure Data Lake platform

• Must have experience in Hive partitioning, indexing and performance tuning techniques

• Having experience in scheduler tools like Control-M and application monitoring tools like Geneos

• Deep knowledge of at least one modern programming language, along with understanding of both object oriented and functional programming. Ideally Java, Scala and Python

• Experience of the Hadoop ecosystem and the technologies that comprise it

• A good understanding of Apache Spark/Kafka

• Practical experience of using test driven development and constant refactoring in continuous integration environment

• Knowledge of SQL and relational databases - ideally both Hive/Impala/SparkSQL and a traditional RDMS, such as Oracle

• Experience working in an agile team, practicing Scrum, Kanban or XP

• Sound knowledge of micro-services, reactive programming

• Exposure to cloud based deployment using Docker, Kubernetes

Good to Have Skills :

• A background in Behaviour Driven Development, particularly experience of how it can be used to define requirements in a collaborative manner, ensure that the team builds the right thing and create a system of living documentation

• An understanding of web technologies, frameworks and tools, for example: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, Bootstrap, React, D3, Node.js

• An understanding of data science techniques, including experience with technologies such as Pandas, Spark Client Library, R, etc. Experience creating effective data visualizations

• Knowledge gained in Financial Services environments, for example products, instruments, trade lifecycles, regulation, risk, financial reporting or accounting Job type: Contract Reference: 18-01169