Description
Senior Data Scientist - Optimisation
(Fixed Term Contract: 12 months)
Location: Mumbai
About Argus:
Argus is the leading independent provider of market intelligence to the global energy and commodity markets. We offer essential price assessments, news, analytics, consulting services, data science tools and industry conferences to illuminate complex and opaque commodity markets. Headquartered in London with over 1,400 staff, Argus is an independent media organisation with 30 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading hubs.
Companies, trading firms and governments in 160 countries around the world trust Argus data to make decisions, analyse situations, manage risk, facilitate trading and for long-term planning. Argus prices are used as trusted benchmarks around the world for pricing transportation, commodities and energy. Founded in 1970, Argus remains a privately held UK-registered company owned by employee shareholders and global growth equity firm General Atlantic.
Argus Media is committed to ensuring career and personal growth for all its staff and provides extensive training and career development opportunities, as well as participation in employee-led initiatives, including a women’s network. Our core values are Excellence, Integrity, Partnership and Inclusivity.
What will you be doing?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior data scientist with expertise in R, R-Shiny and SQL to join our growing Data Science team in Mumbai. You will work closely with our Head of Data Science India, and our global team to support the development of new data science products.
You will be responsible for building impactful data science solutions for business use cases, conducting research on large complex data sets to uncover meaningful patterns in data, employing mathematical and computational techniques to clean, manipulate, organise and model data into actionable insights and results.
What we’re looking for in you:
Degree in mathematics, finance, statistics, engineering, computer science or related field. Experience with statistics, regression, time series, econometrics, and mathematical optimisation is preferred.
Benefits:
Please send in your application via our official careers website at https://www.argusmedia.com/en/careers/open-positions.
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