Data Scientist

At M&G our purpose is **to **help people manage and grow their savings and investments, responsibly.** As a business, we are continuing to take steps towards a sustainable future, delivering better long-term solutions for our customers and clientsand identifying new opportunities to make a positive impact for our environment and communities. To help us achieve our vision we're looking for exceptional people who live our values of care and integrity and who can inspire others; embrace change; deliverresults and keep it simple.
We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.
**If you are ready to join a dynamic team that is pushing the boundaries in Financial services using Data science, we want to hear from you**
**The Role: Data Scientist - 6 month FTC**
**Key Responsibilities**:

- Work with internal and external teams to develop models (ranging from data exploration to feature engineering and model development to validation and scoring.) and put them into production
- Be able to deliver project on his/her own as well as working in collaboration
- Also wear hat of Business Analyst when needed to understand the business and come up with multiple ways to cater the solution given the AI/ML skills expertise underneath.

**Knowledge, Skills & Experience**:

- Data scientist experience
- Good knowledge about asset management/investment domain is beneficial but not essential
- Ability to utilize data science techniques to analyse data, detect pattern, extract, and present insights with advanced visualization
- Excellent python coding skill
- Problem solving and end-to-end project delivery experience
- Excellent ETL skill
- Some experience of deploying and putting into production ML based solution is desired
- Some experience with stakeholder engagement is preferred
- Some working experience as investment/business/research analyst desired

**Work level**:Manager or Expert**
**Recruiter: Phoebe Ewers**
We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity,age, sexual orientation, nationality or disability we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.