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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

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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.

Title:- Data Scientist

Experience:-6 years

Work Mode:- Onsite

Primary Skills:- Data Science, SQL, Python, Data Modelling, Azure, AWS, Banking Domain (BFSI/NBFC)

Qualification:- Any

Roles & Responsibilities:-

1.  Acquiring, cleaning, and preprocessing raw data for analysis.

2.  Utilizing statistical methods and tools for analyzing and interpreting complex  datasets.

3.  Developing and implementing machine learning models for predictive analysis.

4.  Creating visualizations to effectively communicate insights to both technical and   non-technical stakeholders.

5.  Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, business   analysts, and domain experts.

6.  Evaluating and optimizing the performance of machine learning models for   accuracy and efficiency.

7.  Identifying patterns and trends within data to inform business decision-making.

8.  Staying updated on the latest advancements in data science, machine learning, and  relevant technologies.

Requirement:- 

1.  Experience with modeling techniques such as Linear Regression, clustering, and classification techniques.

2.  Must have a passion for data, structured or unstructured.  0.6 – 5 years of hands-on experience with Python and SQL is a must.

3.   Should have sound experience in data mining, data analysis and machine learning techniques.

4.  Excellent critical thinking, verbal and written communications skills.

5.  Ability and desire to work in a proactive, highly engaging, high-pressure, client service environment.

6.   Good presentation skills.

Minimum of 8 years of experience of which, 4 years should be of applied data mining

experience in disciplines such as Call Centre Metrics.

 Strong experience in advanced statistics and analytics including segmentation, modelling, regression, forecasting etc.

 Experience with leading and managing large teams.

 Demonstrated pattern of success in using advanced quantitative analytic methods to solve business problems.

 Demonstrated experience with Business Intelligence/Data Mining tools to work with

data, investigate anomalies, construct data sets, and build models.

 Critical to share details on projects undertaken (preferably on telecom industry)

specifically through analysis from CRM.

• Collaborate with the business teams to understand the data environment in the organization; develop and lead the Data Scientists team to test and scale new algorithms through pilots and subsequent scaling up of the solutions
• Influence, build and maintain the large-scale data infrastructure required for the AI projects, and integrate with external IT infrastructure/service
• Act as the single point source for all data related queries; strong understanding of internal and external data sources; provide inputs in deciding data-schemas
• Design, develop and maintain the framework for the analytics solutions pipeline
• Provide inputs to the organization’s initiatives on data quality and help implement frameworks and tools for the various related initiatives
• Work in cross-functional teams of software/machine learning engineers, data scientists, product managers, and others to build the AI ecosystem
• Collaborate with the external organizations including vendors, where required, in respect of all data-related queries as well as implementation initiatives

• Key responsibility is to design, develop & maintain efficient Data models for the organization maintained to ensure optimal query performance by the consumption layer.
• Developing, Deploying & maintaining a repository of UDXs written in Java / Python.
• Develop optimal Data Model design, analyzing complex distributed data deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance basis data consumption patterns, performance expectations, the query is executed on the tables/databases, etc.
• Periodic Database health check and maintenance
• Designing collections in a no-SQL Database for efficient performance
• Document & maintain data dictionary from various sources to enable data governance
• Coordination with Business teams, IT, and other stakeholders to provide best-in-class data pipeline solutions, exposing data via APIs, loading in down streams, No-SQL Databases, etc
• Data Governance Process Implementation and ensuring data security

Requirements

• Extensive working experience in Designing & Implementing Data models in OLAP Data Warehousing solutions (Redshift, Synapse, Snowflake, Teradata, Vertica, etc).
• Programming experience using Python / Java.
• Working knowledge in developing & deploying User-defined Functions (UDXs) using Java / Python.
• Strong understanding & extensive working experience in OLAP Data Warehousing (Redshift, Synapse, Snowflake, Teradata, Vertica, etc) architecture and cloud-native Data Lake (S3, ADLS, BigQuery, etc) Architecture.
• Strong knowledge in Design, Development & Performance tuning of 3NF/Flat/Hybrid Data Model.
• Extensive technical experience in SQL including code optimization techniques.
• Strung knowledge of database performance and tuning, troubleshooting, and tuning.
• Knowledge of collection design in any No-SQL DB (DynamoDB, MongoDB, CosmosDB, etc), along with implementation of best practices.
• Ability to understand business functionality, processes, and flows.
• Good combination of technical and interpersonal skills with strong written and verbal communication; detail-oriented with the ability to work independently.
• Any OLAP DWH DBA Experience and User Management will be added advantage.
• Knowledge in financial industry-specific Data models such as FSLDM, IBM Financial Data Model, etc will be added advantage.
• Experience in Snowflake will be added advantage.
• Working experience in BFSI/NBFC & data understanding of Loan/Mortgage data will be added advantage.

Functional knowledge

• Data Governance & Quality Assurance
• Modern OLAP Database Architecture & Design
• Linux
• Data structures, algorithm & data modeling techniques
• No-SQL database architecture
• Data Security

About Us

upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale. upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management, Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build the careers of tomorrow.

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19

• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-

  after startups in India

• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India

  by FastCompany.

• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech

• upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India

  program

• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

   

  Role Summary

  Are you excited by the challenge and the opportunity of applying data-science and data- analytics techniques to the fast developing education technology domain? Do you look forward to, the sense of ownership and achievement that comes with innovating and creating data products from scratch and pushing it live into Production systems? Do you want to work with a team of highly motivated members who are on a mission to empower individuals through education?
  If this is you, come join us and become a part of the upGrad technology team. At upGrad the technology team enables all the facets of the business - whether it’s bringing efficiency to ourmarketing and sales initiatives, to enhancing our student learning experience, to empowering our content, delivery and student success teams, to aiding our student’s for their desired careeroutcomes. We play the part of bringing together data & tech to solve these business problems and opportunities at hand.
  We are looking for an highly skilled, experienced and passionate data-scientist who can come on-board and help create the next generation of data-powered education tech product. The ideal candidate would be someone who has worked in a Data Science role before wherein he/she is comfortable working with unknowns, evaluating the data and the feasibility of applying scientific techniques to business problems and products, and have a track record of developing and deploying data-science models into live applications. Someone with a strong math, stats, data-science background, comfortable handling data (structured+unstructured) as well as strong engineering know-how to implement/support such data products in Production environment.
  Ours is a highly iterative and fast-paced environment, hence being flexible, communicating well and attention-to-detail are very important too. The ideal candidate should be passionate about the customer impact and comfortable working with multiple stakeholders across the company.

  
  Roles & Responsibilities

  • • 3+ years of experience in analytics, data science, machine learning or comparable role
    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science/Data Analytics, Math/Statistics or related discipline 
    • Experience in building and deploying Machine Learning models in Production systems
    • Strong analytical skills: ability to make sense out of a variety of data and its relation/applicability to the business problem or opportunity at hand
    • Strong programming skills: comfortable with Python - pandas, numpy, scipy, matplotlib; Databases - SQL and noSQL
    • Strong communication skills: ability to both formulate/understand the business problem at hand as well as ability to discuss with non data-science background stakeholders 
    • Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives

     

    Skills Required

    • Experience in Text Analytics, Natural Language Processing

    • Advanced degree in Data Science/Data Analytics or Math/Statistics

    • Comfortable with data-visualization tools and techniques

    • Knowledge of AWS and Data Warehousing

    • Passion for building data-products for Production systems - a strong desire to impact

      the product through data-science technique

We are building a global content marketplace that brings companies and content

creators together to scale up content creation processes across 50+ content verticals and 150+ industries. Over the past 2.5 years, we’ve worked with companies like India Today, Amazon India, Adobe, Swiggy, Dunzo, Businessworld, Paisabazaar, IndiGo Airlines, Apollo Hospitals, Infoedge, Times Group, Digit, BookMyShow, UpGrad, Yulu, YourStory, and 350+ other brands.
Our mission is to become the world’s largest content creation and distribution platform for all kinds of content creators and brands.

Our Team

We are a 25+ member company and is scaling up rapidly in both team size and our ambition.

If we were to define the kind of people and the culture we have, it would be -

a) Individuals with an Extreme Sense of Passion About Work

b) Individuals with Strong Customer and Creator Obsession

c) Individuals with Extraordinary Hustle, Perseverance & Ambition

We are on the lookout for individuals who are always open to going the extra mile and thrive in a fast-paced environment. We are strong believers in building a great, enduring

a company that can outlast its builders and create a massive impact on the lives of our

employees, creators, and customers alike.

Our Investors

We are fortunate to be backed by some of the industry’s most prolific angel investors - Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal (Snapdeal founders), YourStory Media. (Shradha Sharma); Dr. Saurabh Srivastava, Co-founder of IAN and NASSCOM; Slideshare co-founder Amit Ranjan; Indifi's Co-founder and CEO Alok Mittal; Sidharth Rao, Chairman of Dentsu Webchutney; Ritesh Malik, Co-founder and CEO of Innov8; Sanjay Tripathy, former CMO, HDFC Life, and CEO of Agilio Labs; Manan Maheshwari, Co-founder of WYSH; and Hemanshu Jain, Co-founder of Diabeto.
Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners