Principal Data Scientist

About The Role

As a Principal Data Scientist, you will enhance PEI's growth and achievement by improving the customer experience with intelligent, customized solutions. You will leverage the latest AI and ML technologies to ensure our customer offerings are not only enjoyable and seamless but also at the cutting edge of industry innovation.

In this role, you will shape the principles and practice of Data Science delivery at PEI. You will build models that drive impact for customers and impact your peers through mentoring and the dissemination of your ideas and principles.

We are embarking upon a transformation journey that will revolutionise the customer experience for members of the Alternative Assets community - you can help us build that future!

As a Principal Data Scientist at PEI you will

• Develop and enhance machine learning models and deploy them into production.
• Co-create the standards for Data Science delivery from discovery through to production.
• Utilize your expertise in analytics, data science, and data storytelling to see beyond the numbers, understanding user interactions with our products and communications, and how these insights can shape our communication strategy.
• Guide and empower teams to measure what matters; initiate or assist in running A/B experiments to continuously improve our efforts.
• Work closely with engineers to ensure we collect the right data to generate relevant business insights.
• Collaborate with various departments, including product, editorial, and commercial, to leverage machine learning and analytics to identify optimization opportunities.
• Conduct deep analysis into the core aspects of PEI's operations to fully understand key levers and propose improvements.

About You

We'd love to hear from you if you

• Have an advanced degree in a quantitative discipline.
• Have a growth mindset and are hungry to learn and improve.
• Have considerable knowledge of, and experience using advanced statistical techniques in an applied setting.
• Possess the ability to write production quality code in Python and SQL.
• Have a self starter mindset; you proactively identify issues and opportunities and tackle them without being told to do so.
• Are commercially minded and can put numbers into business perspective.
• Are as comfortable getting hands on as taking a step back and thinking strategically.
• Know how to use Agentic Coding to make yourself incredibly productive.
• Are a team player whom your colleagues can rely on.
• Have excellent presentation and communication skills and get excited to turn data into stories accessible for stakeholders.
• Are comfortable with complexity & developing a holistic understanding of a system to propose & build solutions.

Nice to have

• Experience in Financial Data and/or Alternative Investments
• Interest in investing or financial modelling
• Knowledge graph experience
• Probabilistic programming experience (e.g. PyMC, Stan).
• Causal Inference knowledge/experience.

Our technology stack

• Python and Jupyter Notebooks.
• PySpark for processing big data.
• Databricks: Workflows, Asset Bundles, MLFlow.

About Us

Who we are: PEI Group is a subscriber focused business intelligence company. With our multi talented global team of over 490 people, spread across EMEA, USA & Asia, our purpose is to inform and connect investment professionals across global, specialised markets. We identify specific high growth, high value investment sectors and themes where deep insight, strong market relationships and active capital flows are critical for success.

What we do: PEI Group provides industry leading journalism, data, and market insight to subscribing clients via a wide portfolio of specialist brands supported by our robust and scalable digital publishing, analytics, and database platform. We also track the firms and individuals who shape markets and bring client communities together to enable knowledge sharing, profile building and relationship development through professional networks and events. Wherever our markets are active - in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, London and elsewhere - PEI is hard at work examining crucial market forces and shifting investment themes, identifying active investors and their capital allocations, and scanning ahead for regulatory changes, new compliance requirements and other risk factors.

At PEI we value diverse talent and welcome applications from everyone - regardless of background. We are an equal opportunity employer and our inclusive culture at PEI is reflected in every stage of the recruitment journey. Please inform us at initial stages of the recruitment process if you require any reasonable adjustments and we can accommodate this.

PEI Group supports flexible working arrangements, and we welcome career returners.