Our Supermajor Gas & Power client is looking for Direct Hire Market Compliance Data Scientist in Houston, Texas (Downtown/Hybrid). You will be responsible for building and maintaining data and analytics capability to deliver market compliance objectives.
Main responsibilities
- Identify and enable priority compliance monitoring screens.
- Enable access to data (market data, exchange data, orders, transactions, assets, communications, positions) and fundamental data (market fundamentals, demand/supply, and trends) to support analysis functions.
- Develop and design data strategies to quickly assimilate both structured and unstructured data for analysis.
- Provide leadership to the team for quantitative, regression and probabilistic market compliance analytic screen designs.
- Implement market compliance monitoring tools.
- Support longer-term evolution from pre-configured market compliance screens to augmenting with AI/ML data-driven detection.
- Review and interrogate AI or Machine Learning strategies used for trading.
- Design and conduct ad hoc unstructured data analysis to probe and test data design and identify new trading pattern anomalies and potential new compliance screens.
- Develop and implement the required control process for company’s comprehensive monitoring and surveillance program.
- Develop, validate, and deploy machine learning algorithms to solve false positive alert and other complex business challenges.
- Implement data anomaly detection systems to identify and mitigate risks.
Requirements
- A Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Machine Learning or a related field
- At least 3 years of experience in data science, with a focus on data analysis and machine learning model development, or data monitoring system implementation.
- At least 2 years of experience in Energy Trading Firm or 2 years of experience in compliance role.
- Proficiency in Python for data analysis, coding and modeling tasks.
- Hands-on experience with Python statistical analysis packages.
- Hands-on experience with implementing new compliance monitoring systems.
- Experience in a Market Compliance role or an equivalent market compliance role at an exchange, ISO/RTO, or governmental regulatory oversight body is a plus.
- Working understanding of Energy markets and products (Natural Gas, Power, Liquefied Natural Gas, Renewables); experience with day-to-day operations, risk management and trading practices used in the industry and how such trading activities may interact to create the appearance of market manipulation or other market rule violations is preferred.
- Demonstrated understanding of the CFTC’s Division of Enforcement and the FERC’s Office of Enforcement and their views on market manipulation is preferred.
- Experience with industry tools and technologies. (Power BI/ Python/ SQL/ CubeWatch/Spotfire/Nasdaq SMARTS/K3 Broadpeak/ Whistler/Telemessage/ Fairwords/MS Power Query/Alteryx).
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