Quantitative Researcher & Developer - Data Science

Role Overview

Quantitative Researcher & Developer - Data Science at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

Company Overview

ADIA's Quantitative Research & Development team operates in a multidisciplinary environment where experts with deep specializations pioneer new ways to think about investing and put these ideas into practice.

Role Purpose

To leverage data to enable the research, development and implementation of quantitative investment strategies by providing comprehensive, clean, and actionable data as well as building robust, efficient, and scalable technology.

Key Responsibilities

Data Ingestion & Cleansing

• Develop pipelines to clean, tag and integrate new data sources.

Data Analysis

• Generate descriptive statistics, uncover valuable patterns and present potential applications of datasets.

Data Infrastructure

• Maintain automated systems for data collection, cleaning and retrieval.

Qualifications & Experience

• Ph.D. or Masters in a quantitative discipline or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years in data science.
• Experience applying analytical and statistical techniques to large real-world datasets.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
• Proficiency in at least one other programming language.
• Cloud experience.
• Familiarity with financial datasets.
• Ability to solve complex problems and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Curiosity and desire to learn new methods and technologies.