Job Description

Division: Legal & Compliance (LCD)
Super - Department: LCD CoE
Department: LCD Data & Analytics
Sub-Department:
Region: Asia/ India
Job Level: Manager
Job Title: Data Scientist
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Mumbai Nirlon Knowledge Park
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.
As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.
LCD comprises of Legal, Compliance, Global Financial Crimes and Regulatory Relations.
The Legal Department provides guidance, requirements and procedures for understanding and complying with the laws, regulations and Firm policies that apply to our businesses.
The Global Compliance Department identifies applicable Compliance Obligations and maintains a Firmwide Compliance Risk management program, including Compliance Risks that transcend business lines, legal entities and jurisdictions of operation.
Global Financial Crimes is responsible for the development and governance of the Firms financial crime prevention efforts across all regions and business units. Global Financial Crimes is comprised of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions, Anti-boycott, Anti-Corruption (ACG) and Government and Political Activities Compliance (GPAC) programs.
The Global Regulatory Relations Group (GRRG) is responsible for strategic and centralized management of the supervisory activities of Morgan Stanleys regulators and related developments globally, with a focus on regulatory reviews and examinations and continuous monitoring activities. GRRG serves as the central point of contact for the regulatory staff responsible for supervisory activities at Morgan Stanley entities and for timely reporting to Firm management and other governance or management bodies, as appropriate, on those relationships and supervisory processes, including areas of significant regulatory focus or concern.
LCD Center of Excellence Mumbai (LCD CoE) is a part of Morgan Stanleys Global In-house Center, which provides global support to LCD and is an integral part of Firm and LCD strategy.
Team Background
Professionals within the Legal and Compliance Division (LCD) provide a wide range of services to our business units. They might help to structure a complex and sensitive cross-border transaction; advise on a new product introduction; develop a training program or defuse an investor dispute. They preserve the firms invaluable reputation for integrity and protect the firm from sanctions with policies and procedures that meet regulatory requirements around the world. They also strive to maintain cooperative relationships with governmental policy makers and the regulatory and self-regulatory agencies that govern the firms businesses.
Data & Analytics is a function in the Legal and Compliance Division responsible for designing and optimizing surveillance models, approaches and tools using advanced analytical techniques like supervised and unsupervised machine learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and evolving techniques like reinforcement and deep learning as well as graph analytics.
Qualifications

Requirements
Skills required (essential)
Candidates must have:
Bachelors or Masters Degree from premier institutes in mathematics, statistics, physics, computational finance, computer science or other quantitative fields
3-7 years of experience in advanced statistical analysis techniques including multi-variable data analysis and predictive modeling techniques. Hands-on and theoretical knowledge of various Machine Learning algorithms and tools, e.g. XGBoost/LightGBM, Random Forests, support vector machines (SVMs), PCA, K-means, DBSCAN, etc
Extensive experience using Python for statistical analysis and modeling. Experience in PySpark is a plus
Well-versed in writing efficient, scalable and production quality code and understanding of programming best practices
Strong problem solving and project management skills with the ability to work independently and multi-task to meet deadlines in a rapidly changing environment.
Ability to work with global, cross-functional teams
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Skills Desired
Experience in Distributed Computing & Cloud technologies (Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Scala, Databricks , SparQL or other related technologies) to analyze and process large data sets and writing scalable and efficient code
Strong SQL knowledge with experience in writing complex queries
Experience in leveraging AI and ML frameworks/tools like TensorFlow, Keras, H2O or DataRobot
Expertise with Time Series problems is a plus
Understanding of programming best practices and SDLC/ Model Ops processes
Education: Any Graduate
Industry: Financial Services/Stockbroking

Skills Required