About IG Group
IG Group is a publicly‑traded FTSE250 FinTech company that runs mobile, web and desktop platforms helping clients trade stocks & shares, leveraged products, futures & options, and crypto. Over 340,000 people already use our platforms. With offices in 18 countries and products in 16 regions, we are ambitious, hungry to move faster and ship better products for our customers while growing our user base. We believe in high autonomy and want people who are looking to do things differently to create better experiences for our customers.
Position
Senior Data Scientist
Team Overview
The Data Science team is fast‑growing and works in cross‑functional teams, targeting sustainable growth by delivering real value through advanced data science and machine learning techniques. As a senior data scientist, you will partner with stakeholders across marketing, risk, customer services and quants to deliver impactful data products.
Your Role in the Team’s Success
Lead high-impact projects, acting as a technical thought leader in classic machine learning and advanced or generative AI. Explore structured and unstructured data from client, operational and financial domains to identify opportunities that add business value. Build next‑generation AI data products such as recommendation systems, chatbots, text analytics, pricing and hedging optimisation, and automatic insight generation systems. Translate business problems into data‑science solutions, mentor junior members, and help shape the evolving discipline of data science within the organisation.
What You’ll Do
- Lead high‑impact projects, being a technical thought leader and subject matter expert in classic machine learning as well as advanced and generative AI.
- Explore a variety of data from structured to unstructured data spanning client, operational and financial domains to identify opportunities for data science that add value to the business.
- Advance the use of AI within IG by building our next‑generation data products, e.g., recommendation systems, chatbots, text analytics systems, pricing and hedging optimisation and automatic insight generation systems.
- Work with stakeholders from across the business to turn business problems into data‑science solutions. Mentor junior members of the department, helping them grow.
What You’ll Need For This Role
- Experience implementing machine learning in production using in‑house or third‑party data science platforms.
- Building machine learning models; experience in natural language processing, time‑series prediction, neural networks and recommendation systems will be advantageous.
- Excellent communication skills, explaining complicated concepts to non‑technical colleagues.
- Generating insights from complex data sources.
How We Work
We adopt a thoughtful approach and follow a hybrid working model with three days in the office to balance collaboration and flexibility. We focus on the following principles to drive high performance and career satisfaction:
- Lead and inspire: drive trust, alignment and enthusiasm.
- Think big: focus on problems that most impact commercial outcomes.
- Champion the client: understand and prioritise client’s needs.
- Deliver at pace: push for fast, sustainable growth.
- Raise the bar: take ownership, be accountable and share feedback.
The Perks
Your growth fuels our success! Thrive with tailored development programs, mentoring opportunities with leaders, and clear career progression. Expand your network through committees, sports and social clubs. Enjoy extra time off for volunteering and community work.
- Competitive salary.
- Flexible benefits package on top of your salary (12%).
- Private medical cover for you and your family.
- Life insurance.
- Contribution to gym memberships.
- 25 days holiday, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total.
- The option to buy or sell holiday days.
- Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning Platform.
- A comprehensive global and local onboarding process.
- Employee‑led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events & projects that foster an open, diverse and inclusive culture.
- Option to participate and create ESG initiatives based on IG Brighter Future Fund.
- Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parents.
Equal Opportunity
We believe that diversity is vital to success, fuels creativity, drives innovation and sets us up for global success. We’re committed to building teams with a variety of perspectives and skills and encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
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IG Group is a publicly‑traded FTSE250 FinTech company that runs mobile, web and desktop platforms helping clients trade stocks & shares, leveraged products, futures & options, and crypto. Over 340,000 people already use our platforms. With offices in 18 countries and products in 16 regions, we are ambitious, hungry to move faster and ship better products for our customers while growing our user base. We believe in high autonomy and want people who are looking to do things differently to create better experiences for our customers.
Position
Senior Data Scientist
Team Overview
The Data Science team is fast‑growing and works in cross‑functional teams, targeting sustainable growth by delivering real value through advanced data science and machine learning techniques. As a senior data scientist, you will partner with stakeholders across marketing, risk, customer services and quants to deliver impactful data products.
Your Role in the Team’s Success
Lead high-impact projects, acting as a technical thought leader in classic machine learning and advanced or generative AI. Explore structured and unstructured data from client, operational and financial domains to identify opportunities that add business value. Build next‑generation AI data products such as recommendation systems, chatbots, text analytics, pricing and hedging optimisation, and automatic insight generation systems. Translate business problems into data‑science solutions, mentor junior members, and help shape the evolving discipline of data science within the organisation.
What You’ll Do
- Lead high‑impact projects, being a technical thought leader and subject matter expert in classic machine learning as well as advanced and generative AI.
- Explore a variety of data from structured to unstructured data spanning client, operational and financial domains to identify opportunities for data science that add value to the business.
- Advance the use of AI within IG by building our next‑generation data products, e.g., recommendation systems, chatbots, text analytics systems, pricing and hedging optimisation and automatic insight generation systems.
- Work with stakeholders from across the business to turn business problems into data‑science solutions. Mentor junior members of the department, helping them grow.
What You’ll Need For This Role
- Experience implementing machine learning in production using in‑house or third‑party data science platforms.
- Building machine learning models; experience in natural language processing, time‑series prediction, neural networks and recommendation systems will be advantageous.
- Excellent communication skills, explaining complicated concepts to non‑technical colleagues.
- Generating insights from complex data sources.
How We Work
We adopt a thoughtful approach and follow a hybrid working model with three days in the office to balance collaboration and flexibility. We focus on the following principles to drive high performance and career satisfaction:
- Lead and inspire: drive trust, alignment and enthusiasm.
- Think big: focus on problems that most impact commercial outcomes.
- Champion the client: understand and prioritise client’s needs.
- Deliver at pace: push for fast, sustainable growth.
- Raise the bar: take ownership, be accountable and share feedback.
The Perks
Your growth fuels our success! Thrive with tailored development programs, mentoring opportunities with leaders, and clear career progression. Expand your network through committees, sports and social clubs. Enjoy extra time off for volunteering and community work.
- Competitive salary.
- Flexible benefits package on top of your salary (12%).
- Private medical cover for you and your family.
- Life insurance.
- Contribution to gym memberships.
- 25 days holiday, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total.
- The option to buy or sell holiday days.
- Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning Platform.
- A comprehensive global and local onboarding process.
- Employee‑led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events & projects that foster an open, diverse and inclusive culture.
- Option to participate and create ESG initiatives based on IG Brighter Future Fund.
- Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parents.
Equal Opportunity
We believe that diversity is vital to success, fuels creativity, drives innovation and sets us up for global success. We’re committed to building teams with a variety of perspectives and skills and encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
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