Data Scientist, Systematic Data Science

Balyasny Asset Management

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New York, NY
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About Balyasny Asset Management

Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a global multi-manager hedge fund offering diversified investment strategies across equities, macro, commodities, and systematic trading.

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TL;DR · Data Scientist, Systematic Data Science

The Data Scientist, Systematic Data Science joins a team focused on supporting Portfolio Managers through rigorous data evaluation, research support, and signal discovery. In this role, you will assess and validate new data requests for point-in-time availability, develop business logic for content quality control, and design automated validation processes. You will perform exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and backtesting to identify signals for systematic strategies while creating tools to accelerate dataset evaluation. The work involves managing complex financial datasets across asset classes like FX, commodities, fixed income, and equity. To succeed, you must possess expert skills in Python, SQL, pandas, and NumPy, alongside experience with AWS S3, Redshift, Snowflake, Airflow, and Git. You will serve as a subject matter expert on vendor data integration and statistical modeling to solve critical investment research challenges.

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What you'll do

  • Assess and validate new data requests for existence, point-in-time availability, and quality.
  • Evaluate and recommend appropriate data sources for investment analysis and systematic strategies.
  • Develop and implement business logic for content quality control and automated validation processes.
  • Enhance Python-based data quality checks during the onboarding process of new datasets.
  • Author and maintain comprehensive documentation for data sources, business logic, and QC procedures.
  • Execute signal research projects including hypothesis generation, feature engineering, and backtesting.
  • Develop tools and frameworks to accelerate dataset evaluation and signal discovery for Portfolio Managers.
  • Provide subject matter expertise on data structure, usage, and integration with Data Engineering teams.

What we're looking for

  • Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Financial Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  • 5+ years of relevant experience as a data scientist/analyst in financial services.
  • Experience building data collection, cleansing, and delivery infrastructure.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and SQL including pandas and NumPy libraries.
  • Experience with data quality assessment, validation, and documentation.
  • Experience supporting research teams or PMs in dataset evaluation, exploratory data analysis, and signal research.
  • Familiarity with cloud data platforms (AWS S3, Redshift, Snowflake) and workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Git, Jira).
  • Experience analyzing financial data across asset classes and working with vendor data.

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