Senior Data Scientist, Thomson Reuters
Reuters
2-3 days a week in office (Canada Square, London or Duncan Street, ON)
Financial news and financial data provider
Job no longer available
Financial news and financial data provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
2-3 days a week in office (Canada Square, London or Duncan Street, ON)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help professionals advance their businesses and gain competitive advantage with the trusted answers only we can provide.
Role
Who you are
- Are you looking to use your academic expertise to its full potential?
- Like the sound of a practical, problem solving role where you’ll take a key role in solving problems by designing and building technical solutions on behalf of one of the world’s most powerful and trusted news providers? Then we want to talk to you
- Significant experience in Python with strong grasp of software engineering standard methodologies such as code-reusability, modularity, use of repos, etc
- A strong academic track record, with experience of developing tech-based solutions to a variety of problems (potentially though your knowledge of machine learning, deep learning or Computer Vision) in a corporate setting
- Have demonstrated expertise in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks such as feature engineering, image processing, NLP, or model training
- Knowledge and experience with recent machine learning frameworks
- Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining high quality, robust and maintainable code
- Experience in automation, system monitoring, and cloud-native applications, with familiarity in AWS or Azure
- Ability to work with large data sets, including preparation, labelling, and analysis tasks
- Comfortable with Agile practices
- Comfortable with giving web presentations on investigations or work
What the job involves
- Reuters is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to help create artificial intelligence products for Reuters News
- As a Senior Data Scientist, you’ll plan and develop news technology projects that will play a crucial role in supporting both our global newsrooms as well as the strategy and execution of Reuters’ news production efforts
- You’ll work closely with a range of stakeholders both within the newsroom and with the wider business to determine the path forward in how Reuters puts stories out into the world, from a technological perspective
- Using your academic and problem solving skills, you’ll create deep learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence models using state-of-the-art research and cloud platform solutions, with a special focus on data preparation, testing and evaluation of metric performance
- Work as part of a collaborative team that works closely with the CTO on both AI and non-AI software products that power Reuters’ global newsrooms in real-time
- Work in both a strategic and practical manner, building great news solutions that will aid the way in which Reuters newsrooms use video, photo and text multimedia when getting crucial information around the world at high speed
- Use your analytical skills to gather and prepare datasets whilst training analytical models. This work will be key to Reuters’ delivery of news to its different global audiences, but will also be key to our understanding of how our audiences are using and consuming news
- Assist with evaluating systems, including the use of performance metrics that allow different business units to make great strategic decisions in a technological space
- Be a great listener and problem solver. You’ll work closely with both editorial and technological stakeholders internally to understand pain points, areas for innovation, and will establish the best course of action, in building and delivering practical, innovative solutions with its users’ needs at heart
Application process
- Please Note: Completed applications must be submitted by 23:59 (BST) on Sunday 8th September 2024. Early applications are encouraged
Our take
Thomson Reuters is reinventing the way professionals work. The multinational media conglomerate provides answers that help professionals make better decisions to run smarter businesses. It targets those in complicated sectors that move society forward; tax, law, compliance, government, and media.
Founded over 165 years ago, the company is now powered by thousands of international journalists. This bandwidth guarantees speed, impartiality, and insight that have helped Thomson Reuters retain its position a market leader. To stay competitive with companies founded in the digital era, Thomson Reuters places emphasis on helping clients reinvent themselves for the newly disruptive digital age.
As well as investing in the coverage of growth markets India and China, and embarking on a number of fintech acquisitions, Thomson Reuters announced an expansion of its long-term partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group in 2023. Together, they plan to enhance the value of financial and market news services to LSEG customers, whilst delivering a superior experience to professionals around the world.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Wellington Place, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Steve Hasker
(CEO & President)Previously served as Senior Advisor for TPG, CEO for Creative Artists Agency, Global President & Chief Operating Office for Nielsen, and as a Partner for McKinsey & Company.
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