NLP Data Scientist / Hedge Fund / Perm / 50k - 80k

NLP Data Scientist / Hedge Fund / Perm / 50k - 80k

Join a leading financial services firm to drive investment insights through advanced NLP and cloud-native solutions, extracting critical events from unstructured data to support strategic decision-making across global markets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain NLP pipelines for event extraction from unstructured text (e.g., news, filings, reports) to generate investment signals
• Design robust data models and analytical frameworks to support quantitative and qualitative investment research
• Leverage AWS for scalable data storage, processing, and workflow orchestration
• Collaborate with investment analysts to define event taxonomies and align outputs with business needs
• Perform exploratory data analysis and feature engineering to enhance predictive modeling and alpha generation
• Ensure code quality, reproducibility, and data integrity across the development lifecycle
• Communicate findings and methodologies clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

What We're Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or related field
• 4+ years of data science experience with a focus on NLP (rule-based and machine learning approaches)
• Advanced Python and SQL skills for data manipulation and pipeline integration
• Proven experience with AWS or other cloud platforms in data engineering or analytics
• Strong expertise in supervised and unsupervised learning methods and large-scale dataset management
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills for cross-functional collaboration
• Experience in financial services or investment research (preferred)

Argyll Scott Asia is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Argyll Scott Asia is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.