Job Description
What are the ongoing responsibilities of the Data Scientist?
- Engaging Portfolio Managers in investment team meetings; present and share investment ideas, insights, and results
- Selecting/creating features from raw data, and building/optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
- Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
- Extending the data used in modeling with third party sources of information
- Processing, cleaning, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
- Conducting ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
- Creating automated data consistency checks (e.g., between live/historical data) and unit testing techniques to ensure ongoing model performance
- Building, deploying, and maintaining ML models in cloud#MID_SENIOR_LEVEL
What ideal qualifications, skills & experience would help someone to be successful?
- Bachelors or master’s with 2-6 years of coding and data science experience
- Prior experience in Investment Management / Financial Services / FinTech is good to have.
- Experience in Fixed Income Modeling/Quant (or) Research Experience in US Securitized Products or Consumer Credit is a plus
- Professional certifications such as Certified Financial Analyst (CFA), Financial Risk Manager (FRM), or Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) are preferred
- Requires advanced skills in Python- especially Pandas
- Must be able to produce code in Python at a rapid rate
- Experience with supervised/unsupervised machine learning techniques, especially tree-based algorithms, and k-means clustering. Neural networks experience is a plus, especially with RNNs and CNNs
- Experience modeling and making sense of complex systems
- Must have at least 2+ years of coding experience.
- The applicant must have a strong underlying coding ability
- Must have strong applied statistics skills, such as understanding of distributions, hypothesis testing, and probability
- Great communication skills and experience with data visualization tools in Python
- Proficiency in SQL is a plus. Must be able to write basic queries at minimum
- Experience with high performance computing is a plus (e.g. cluster computing on Azure with Spark/Hadoop)
- Masters/PhD in a quantitative discipline is a plus, but is not required
Job Level - Individual Contributor
Shift Work Timings – 2:00 PM – 11:00 PM IST
Company Info.
Franklin Templeton
Franklin Resources, Inc. is an American multinational holding company that, together with its subsidiaries, is referred to as Franklin Templeton; it is a global investment firm founded in New York City in 1947 as Franklin Distributors, Inc. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BEN, in honor of Benjamin Franklin, for whom the company is named, and who was admired by founder Rupert Johnson, Sr.
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Industry
Financial services
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No. of Employees
10,300
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Location
San Mateo, CA, USA
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Website
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