# Senior Data Scientist - Emerging Tech Standard Delivery Team

**Company**: London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Emerging Tech Standard Delivery Team at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) drives the adoption of advanced technologies and develops enterprise-ready solutions for D&A Operations. You will partner with Operations and Technology teams to design data-driven solutions that deliver clear business and customer value.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of senior data scientists, providing technical direction, coaching, and performance feedback.

- Drive end-to-end delivery of data science initiatives, offering hands-on technical leadership, removing roadblocks, and ensuring high-quality execution.

- Own and refine the product vision for an advanced data management and analytics framework.

- Define and optimize user experiences for financial analytics data pipelines.

- Partner with domain experts and senior business stakeholders to identify high-value problems and shape actionable AI, ML, and platform strategies.

- Translate business needs into technical specifications, solution designs, and clear success metrics.

- Develop, deploy, and optimize production-grade AI models including deep learning, NLP, LLMs, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

- Evaluate third-party AI technologies, frameworks, and tools to guide build-vs-buy decisions.

- Establish and enforce coding standards, quality controls, and reproducibility practices for robust ML development.

**Requirements:**

- 8-12 years of experience in data science or related analytics and statistical modelling roles.

- Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, or Computer Science with a Data Science certification, or an Engineering degree specializing in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, and SQL.

- Deep technical expertise in Python, ML/DL frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn), and large-scale data processing.

- Strong foundations in statistics, data engineering, and cloud platforms (Azure/AWS) for production-grade solutions.

**Benefits:**

- Healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.

**Company Culture:**

- Collaborative and creative culture that encourages new ideas.

- Committed to sustainability across the global business.

- Charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- ML/DL frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn)
- large-scale data processing
- statistics
- data engineering
- cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)
- SQL
- R
- NLP
- deep learning
- LLMs
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

### Nice to have
- Experience working within large investment banking or financial services organizations
- Experience defining enterprise AI governance, ethics guidelines, risk frameworks, or regulatory compliance programs
- Published research, patents, or conference presentations in AI, ML, NLP, or related fields
- Experience leading multi-team or matrixed delivery organizations across regions and time zones
- Industry reputation as a technical expert or AI thought leader

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