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Data Science and Machine Learning Industrial Placement

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IG Group

3mo ago

Applications are closed

  • Internship
    Full-time
    Placement Program
  • Data
  • London

Requirements

  • A methodical approach to solving difficult problems and will feel comfortable in presenting insights generated from data to the business.
  • Excellent communication skills, explaining complicated concepts to non-technical colleagues.
  • Innovative thinking to put forward own ideas and suggestions.
  • Some experience in: generating insights from complex data sources, performing statistical analysis and building machine learning models, AI tools such as LLMs, image processing models and prompt-based models.

Responsibilities

  • Exploring a variety of data from structured to unstructured and spanning client, operational and financial domains to identify opportunities for data science that add value to the business.
  • Advancing the use of machine learning within IG by building our next generation data products, e.g. recommendation systems, chatbots, text analytics systems and automatic insight generation systems.
  • Working with stakeholders from across the business to turn business problems into data-driven solutions.
  • Building descriptive and predictive models to understand customer behaviour and prescribe next best actions.
  • Building customer segmentation models to deepen understanding of our increasingly diverse client base and provide personalised customer experience.
  • Building predictive models to optimize IG’s pricing and hedging strategies.

Application Process

  • Application review
  • Online Assessment
  • Interview with Internal Audit Team management

Finance
Industry
1001-5000
Employees

Mission & Purpose

We’ve been at the forefront of trading innovation since 1974, taking on the challenge to deliver an unmatched experience for our clients and raise the bar for tomorrow’s opportunities. Today, we’re a global fintech company incorporating the IG, tastytrade, IG Prime, Spectrum and DailyFX brands, with a presence in 20 countries across five continents – Europe, North America, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. We’re an organisation of positive problem-solvers, united and inspired by our purpose, which is to power the pursuit of financial freedom for the ambitious. Our award-winning products and platforms empower go-getters the world over to unlock opportunities around the clock, giving them access to over 19,000 financial markets. Today, more than 400,000 clients call IG Group home. IG Group Holdings plc is an established member of the FTSE 250 and holds a long-term investment grade credit rating of BBB- with a stable outlook from Fitch Ratings.