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Quant Research, TIFIN

Mumbai, India

WHO WE ARE:

TIFIN is a fintech platform backed by industry leaders including JP Morgan, Morningstar, Broadridge, Hamilton Lane, Franklin Templeton, Motive Partners and a who’s who of the financial service industry. We are creating engaging wealth experiences to better financial lives through AI and investment intelligence powered personalization. We are working to change the world of wealth in ways that personalization has changed the world of movies, music and more but with the added responsibility of delivering better wealth outcomes.

We use design and behavioral thinking to enable engaging experiences through software and application programming interfaces (APIs). We use investment science and intelligence to build algorithmic engines inside the software and APIs to enable better investor outcomes.

In a world where every individual is unique, we match them to financial advice and investments with a recognition of their distinct needs and goals across our investment marketplace and our advice and planning divisions.

OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT

●     Grow at the Edge. We are driven by personal growth. We get out of our comfort zone and keep egos aside to find our genius zones. With self-awareness and integrity we strive to be the best we can possibly be. No excuses.

●     Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth. We value transparency. We communicate with radical candor, authenticity and precision to create a shared understanding. We challenge, but once a decision is made, commit fully.

●     I Win for Teamwin. We believe in staying within our genius zones to succeed and we take full ownership of our work. We inspire each other with our energy and attitude. We fly in formation to win together.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

We are looking for an experienced quantitative professional to develop, implement, test, and maintain the core algorithms and R&D framework for our Investment and investment advisory platform. The ideal candidate for this role has successfully implemented and maintained quantitative and statistical modules using modular software design constructs. The candidate needs to be a responsible product owner, a problem solver and a team player looking to make a significant impact on a fast-growing company. The successful candidate will directly report to the Head of Quant Research & Development.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The end-to-end research, development, and maintenance of investment platform, data and algorithms
• Take part in building out the R&D back testing and simulation engines
• Thoroughly vet investment algorithmic results 
• Contribute to the research data platform design
• Investigate datasets for use in new or existing algorithms
• Participate in agile development practices
• Liaise with stakeholders to gather & understand the functional requirements
• Take part in code reviews ensuring quality meets highest level of standards
• Develop software using high quality standards and best practices, conduct thorough end-to-end unit testing, and provide support during testing and post go-live
• Support research innovation through the creative and aggressive experimentation of cutting-edge hardware, software, processes, procedures, and methods
• Collaborate with technology teams to ensure appropriate requirements, standards, and integration

REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience in a quant research & development role
• Proficient in Python, Git and Jira
• Knowledge in SQL and database development (PostgreSQL is a plus)
• Understanding of R and RMarkdown is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computational mathematics, or financial engineering 
• Master’s degree or advanced training is a strong plus
• Excellent mathematical foundation and hands-on experience working in the finance industry
• Proficient in quantitative, statistical, and ML/AI techniques and their implementation using Python modules such as Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, SciKit-Learn, etc.
• Strong communication (written and oral) and analytical problem-solving skills
• Strong sense of attention to detail, pride in delivering high quality work and willingness to learn
• An understanding of or exposure to financial capital markets, various financial instruments (such as stocks, ETFs, Mutual Funds, etc.), and financial tools (such as Bloomberg, Reuters, etc.)

BENEFITS PACKAGE:

TIFIN offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

· Performance-linked variable compensation.

· Medical insurance

· Tax saving benefits

· Flexible PTO policy and Company-paid holidays

· Parental Leave: 6 month paid maternity, 2 week paid paternity leave

· Access to our Wellness trainers, including 1:1 personal coaching

for executives and rising stars

A note on location. While we have team centres in Boulder, New York City, San Francisco, Charlotte, and Bangalore,this role is based out of Mumbai.  

TIFIN is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

Role - Senior Executive Analytics (BI)

Overview of job -

Our Client is the world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for a Senior Executive Analytics to join us. In this role, you will be responsible for a massive opportunity to build and be a part of largest performance marketing setup APAC is committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our strength, so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential.

Reporting of the role - This role reports to the Director - Analytics.

3 best things about the job:

1. Responsible for data & analytics projects and developing data strategies by diving into data and extrapolating insights and providing guidance to clients

2. Build and be a part of a dynamic team

3. Being part of a global organisations with rapid growth opportunities

Responsibilities of the role:

• Design and build Visualization, Dashboard and reports for both Internal and external clients using Tableau, Power BI, Datorama or R Shiny/Python, SQL, Alteryx.

• Work with large data sets via hands-on data processing to produce structured data sets for analysis.

• Good to Have - Build Marketing-Mix and Multi-Touch attribution models using a range of tools, including free and paid.

What you will need:

• Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, or quantitative field.

• Proficiency in one or more coding languages – preferred languages: Python, R

• Proficiency in one or more Visualization Tools – Tableau, Datorama, Power BI

• Proficiency in using SQL.

• Minimum 3 years of experience in Marketing/Data Analytics or related field with hands-on experience in building Marketing-Mix and Attribution models is a plus.

Purpose of Job:

Responsible for drawing insights from many sources of data to answer important business
questions and help the organization make better use of data in their daily activities.

Job Responsibilities:

We are looking for a smart and experienced Data Engineer 1 who can work with a senior
manager to
⮚ Build DevOps solutions and CICD pipelines for code deployment
⮚ Build unit test cases for APIs and Code in Python
⮚ Manage AWS resources including EC2, RDS, Cloud Watch, Amazon Aurora etc.
⮚ Build and deliver high quality data architecture and pipelines to support business
and reporting needs
⮚ Deliver on data architecture projects and implementation of next generation BI
solutions
⮚ Interface with other teams to extract, transform, and load data from a wide variety
of data sources
Qualifications:
Education: MS/MTech/Btech graduates or equivalent with focus on data science and
quantitative fields (CS, Eng, Math, Eco)
Work Experience: Proven 1+ years of experience in data mining (SQL, ETL, data
warehouse, etc.) and using SQL databases

Skills
Technical Skills
⮚ Proficient in Python and SQL. Familiarity with statistics or analytical techniques
⮚ Data Warehousing Experience with Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, Hive,
Hbase, Pig, Spark, etc.)
⮚ Working knowledge of tools and utilities - AWS, DevOps with Git, Selenium,
Postman, Airflow, PySpark
Soft Skills
⮚ Deep Curiosity and Humility
⮚ Excellent storyteller and communicator
⮚ Design Thinking

About Kloud9:

Kloud9 exists with the sole purpose of providing cloud expertise to the retail industry. Our team of cloud architects, engineers and developers help retailers launch a successful cloud initiative so you can quickly realise the benefits of cloud technology. Our standardised, proven cloud adoption methodologies reduce the cloud adoption time and effort so you can directly benefit from lower migration costs.

Kloud9 was founded with the vision of bridging the gap between E-commerce and cloud. The E-commerce of any industry is limiting and poses a huge challenge in terms of the finances spent on physical data structures.

At Kloud9, we know migrating to the cloud is the single most significant technology shift your company faces today. We are your trusted advisors in transformation and are determined to build a deep partnership along the way. Our cloud and retail experts will ease your transition to the cloud.

Our sole focus is to provide cloud expertise to retail industry giving our clients the empowerment that will take their business to the next level. Our team of proficient architects, engineers and developers have been designing, building and implementing solutions for retailers for an average of more than 20 years.

We are a cloud vendor that is both platform and technology independent. Our vendor independence not just provides us with a unique perspective into the cloud market but also ensures that we deliver the cloud solutions available that best meet our clients' requirements.

Responsibilities:

●       Studying, transforming, and converting data science prototypes

●       Deploying models to production

●       Training and retraining models as needed

●       Analyzing the ML algorithms that could be used to solve a given problem and ranking them by their respective scores

●       Analyzing the errors of the model and designing strategies to overcome them

●       Identifying differences in data distribution that could affect model performance in real-world situations

●       Performing statistical analysis and using results to improve models

●       Supervising the data acquisition process if more data is needed

●       Defining data augmentation pipelines

●       Defining the pre-processing or feature engineering to be done on a given dataset

●       To extend and enrich existing ML frameworks and libraries

●       Understanding when the findings can be applied to business decisions

●       Documenting machine learning processes

Basic requirements: 

●       4+ years of IT experience in which at least 2+ years of relevant experience primarily in converting data science prototypes and deploying models to production

●       Proficiency with Python and machine learning libraries such as scikit-learn, matplotlib, seaborn and pandas

●       Knowledge of Big Data frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, Flume, etc

●       Experience in working with ML frameworks like TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV

●       Strong written and verbal communications

●       Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills.

●       Expertise in visualizing and manipulating big datasets

●       Familiarity with Linux

●       Ability to select hardware to run an ML model with the required latency

●       Robust data modelling and data architecture skills.

●       Advanced degree in Computer Science/Math/Statistics or a related discipline.

●       Advanced Math and Statistics skills (linear algebra, calculus, Bayesian statistics, mean, median, variance, etc.)

Nice to have

●       Familiarity with Java, and R code writing.

●       Exploring and visualizing data to gain an understanding of it, then identifying differences in data distribution that could affect performance when deploying the model in the real world

●       Verifying data quality, and/or ensuring it via data cleaning

●       Supervising the data acquisition process if more data is needed

●       Finding available datasets online that could be used for training

Why Explore a Career at Kloud9:

With job opportunities in prime locations of US, London, Poland and Bengaluru, we help build your career paths in cutting edge technologies of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science. Be part of an inclusive and diverse workforce that's changing the face of retail technology with their creativity and innovative solutions. Our vested interest in our employees translates to deliver the best products and solutions to our customers.

• Play a critical role as a member of the leadership team in shaping and supporting our overall company vision, day-to-day operations, and culture.
• Set the technical vision and build the technical product roadmap from launch to scale; including defining long-term goals and strategies
• Define best practices around coding methodologies, software development, and quality assurance
• Define innovative technical requirements and systems while balancing time, feasibility, cost and customer experience
• Build and support production products
• Ensure our internal processes and services comply with privacy and security regulations
• Establish a high performing, inclusive engineering culture focused on innovation, execution, growth and development
• Set a high bar for our overall engineering practices in support of our mission and goals
• Develop goals, roadmaps and delivery dates to help us scale quickly and sustainably
• Collaborate closely with Product, Business, Marketing and Data Science
• Experience with financial and transactional systems
• Experience engineering for large volumes of data at scale
• Experience with financial audit and compliance is a plus
• Experience building a successful consumer facing web and mobile apps at scale

The Data Engineer would be responsible for selecting and integrating Big Data tools and frameworks required. Would implement Data Ingestion & ETL/ELT processes

Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications:

• Hands on experience on Big Data tools/technologies like Spark,  Databricks, Map Reduce, Hive, HDFS.
• Expertise and excellent understanding of big data toolset such as Sqoop, Spark-streaming, Kafka, NiFi
• Proficiency in any of the programming language: Python/ Scala/  Java with 4+ years’ experience
• Experience in Cloud infrastructures like MS Azure, Data lake etc
• Good working knowledge in NoSQL DB (Mongo, HBase, Casandra)

Intro

Our data and risk team is the core pillar of our business that harnesses alternative data sources to guide the decisions we make at Rely. The team designs, architects, as well as develop and maintain a scalable data platform the powers our machine learning models. Be part of a team that will help millions of consumers across Asia, to be effortlessly in control of their spending and make better decisions.

What will you do
The data engineer is focused on making data correct and accessible, and building scalable systems to access/process it. Another major responsibility is helping AI/ML Engineers write better code.

• Optimize and automate ingestion processes for a variety of data sources such as: click stream, transactional and many other sources.

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture and ETL processes
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Develop data pipeline and infrastructure to support real-time decisions
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS big data' technologies.
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
• Work with stakeholders to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
  
  

What will you need
• 2+ hands-on experience building and implementation of large scale production pipeline and Data Warehouse
• Experience dealing with large scale

• Proficiency in writing and debugging complex SQLs
• Experience working with AWS big data tools
  • Ability to lead the project and implement best data practises and technology

Data Pipelining

• Strong command in building & optimizing data pipelines, architectures and data sets
• Strong command on relational SQL & noSQL databases including Postgres
• Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.

Big Data: Strong experience in big data tools & applications

• Tools: Hadoop, Spark, HDFS etc
• AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift
• Stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, Flink etc.
• Message queuing: RabbitMQ, Spark etc
  
  

Software Development & Debugging

• Strong experience in object-oriented programming/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc
• Strong hold on data structures & algorithms

What would be a bonus

• Prior experience working in a fast-growth Startup
• Prior experience in the payments, fraud, lending, advertising companies dealing with large scale data