Business Consultant, AI & NLP

About Us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 65 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

Our People:

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder – which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise. As a global organisation spanning 65 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.

Role Summary:

With specific expertise in AI, Data Science and Natural Language Processing (NLP) domain, this pre-sales role collates and synthesises requirements to design and present innovative end to end solution options to enable deal closure and sell value. The Solution Consultant supports the sales motion through deep knowledge of specific customer workflows and relevant technologies. You will join other specialists and sales professionals on agile Bid Teams to work in a consultative manner with customers on specific solutions engagements. These teams help customers solve specific problems, innovate faster, or address their workflows needs and the solution may include multiple products, third party solutions and new capabilities.

What will you be doing?

• Bring specialist domain expertise in big data processing, AI, Data Science and NLP to complex customer engagements including developing use-cases, working with professional services, third party solutions and/or integration with client data engineering.

• Brings a mix of technical, product, content and data pipeline workflow expertise to collaboratively shape solutions (e.g., ideation, clarification, specification, documentation, and solution technical design)

• Understands customer specific AI and Data Science use cases and data requirements through direct engagement with customers, partners and third parties

• Coordinates internal stakeholders (Partners / Professional Services / Proposition) to meet customer solution needs

• Runs detailed technical customer presentations/workshops for complex proposition deals

• Works with Professional Services to deliver Proof of Concepts including development/integration work

• Owning and defining customer solution proposals and statements of work

• Ensures collaboration with post-sales professional services/implementation and customer success teams

Who are we ideally looking for?

• University degree with Information Technology or Engineer background

• Data Science expertise and experience with a particular focus on Natural Language Processing projects

• Understanding and practical experience of applying common programming and scripting languages

• Previous pre-sales experience over software and technical product is highly valued

• Good presentation and communication skill

• Good knowledge of product selling cycle

• Basic knowledge of web protocols such as HTTP, XML, and JSON

• Knowledge of financial industry and understanding of buy side, sell side, wealth, etc.

• Knowledge of data feeds for finance industry and regulation of the finance industry

• Experience in working with Web Service APIs and Websocket APIs

• Able to confidently program in Python for quick prototyping and showcasing POCs

• Working knowledge of NLP libraries in any of the programming language in data science stack such as Python, R, Spark

• Working knowledge of NoSQL databases and good familiarity of data ingestion, data munging activities

• Experience in working with AWS and GCP services for various activities in the data science workflow

• Working knowledge of deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch

• Broad understanding of Transfer Learning Models and its application to alternative data in Finance.

• Good understanding of NLP modelling concepts and ability to implement off-the-shelf NLP models for specific use cases

• Ideally you would have experience in supporting the sale of software/data solutions in complex and challenging environments.

Career Stage:

Senior Associate

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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