Role Profile

The data scientist will be responisble for leading the development of monitoring and market abuse detection algorithms within the Millenium IT Surveillance System, as well as active involvement in developing for the Senseye Surveillance system, a website hosted within AWS utilising ML/AI and advanced coding techniques.

Quantiative Surveillance & Technology are not just responsible for managing our internal surveillance alert code as part of RIE responsibilities but also external products alongside financial markets analytics tools and visualisations

The UK Regulation department is responsible for regulating all the markets operated by LSE plc (the Recognised Investment Exchange).  The department oversees secondary market trading, to ensure it is orderly, and monitors the markets for potential market abuse, market manipulation and breaches of the Exchange's rules.  The department is also responsible for the Exchange's compliance with its own regulatory responsibilities, its relationship with the FCA and for the provision of regulatory advice and guidance to all UK entities in the Group.

Essential skill set

Programming languages

Scala

Python

SQL

Visualisation tools

Tableau

PowerBI

Version Control

BitBucket

Atlassian tools

Jira

Confluence

Regulatory Knowledge

MiFID II

MAR

Degree specialism (or equivalent)

Computer Science

Statistics

Maths

Degree grade

2:2 or above

Personality traits

Comfortable in dynamic/fast-paced environment

Good listener

Objective

Additional desirable skill set

Programming languages

Bash

R

Matlab

Java

Visualisation tools

RShiny

Plotly

Version Control

Git

SVN

Market Data

Marketmap

Bloomberg

IDE

IntelliJ IDEA

PyCharm

Jupyter Notebook

AWS infrastructure

Amazon SageMaker

S3

Market Data

Refinitiv (concept of Eikon GUI or Electron Datascope Select metadata characteristics)

DevOps

Control-M

Jenkins

Shells

Git Bash

Command prompt

AWS infrastructure

EC2

EMR

VPC

IAM

Lambda

Workspace

Route53

Operating Systems

Linux

Unix

Regulatory Knowledge

MiFID I

FSMA 2000

FCA Handbook

UKLA DTR

Certificates (or equivalent)

IMC

CISI

CFA

BAT Score > 525

IOC

University

Russell Group

Degree specialism (or equivalent)

Economics

Econometrics

Engineering

Physics

Degree grade (or equivalent)

1st

Personality traits

Efficient

Clear & concise communicator

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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