ABOUT US:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.
LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

ROLE SUMMARY:

The data scientist will be responsible 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 our internal Surveillance system, a website hosted within the cloud utilising ML/AI and advanced coding techniques.
Quantitative 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.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Gather data from multiple data sources, use statistical techniques to and tools to identify patterns
• Use programming languages such as Scala, Python, Java, or SQL for data analysis and modelling
• Build data science products and solutions utilising data science techniques
• Write highly optimised code for LSEG products and solutions
• Validate and fine tune models to ensure accuracy and reliability
• Work closely with other data scientists and stakeholders and engineers to integrate models into systems
• Document data analysis processes, model developments steps and results
• Stay up to date with the latest trends and advancements in data science, machine learning and related technologies