About the jobOur Graduate Program (aka Leadership Development Program) for data scientists and analysts is a three-year career acceleration program crafted for new graduates who share our passion for growth and technology evolution. Through job rotations, coaching, training sessions, mentoring, and continuous feedback, you will gain hands-on experience of the state-of-the-art methodologies and technologies used in our agile product development organization.
Who you are:Strong quantitative and analytical mindset, curious about business processes and passionate about technology, willing to acquire a deep knowledge of both aspects, never tired of learning new knowledgeabilities and putting them at work. Able to model complex systems, and to challenge his intuition and validate the models against reality. Capable of assessing the right trade-off between required effort and solution quality. Team player, able to interact with various levels of the ION group hierarchy. 
What you will do:You will become the owner of full data transformation and reporting pipelines:·       Interact with business process owners/players to understand how data are generated to reconstruct their semantics and assess their value·       Perform exploratory data analysis and reverse engineering·       Automatize extraction of the raw data from the native business systems·       Automatize the process of data cleaning, transformation, enrichment, and standardization to feed central Data Hubs·       Build multi-dimensional business intelligence model to be leveraged as sole source of truth·       Interact with process owners and top management to gather and formalize reporting needs·       Implement automated reporting leveraging multiple channels: Power BI dashboards, programmatic generation of PowerPoint decks, implementation of ad-hoc web UI·       Operational management of automated pipelines
What are we trying to do?We see an increased need for the wide business to explore and unveil the value hidden in the wide variety of data assets available in the ION group. We want to standardize and automate data harvesting, cleaning, enrichment, and reports to provide data driven insights for quantitative decision making, both at the operational and top management level.
What you will need to know:You need to have a scientific mindset to build conceptual models, hypothesis, and assumptions; formalize them, and challenge them against real facts. Mastering Python and SQL for data analysis is required. Statistical concepts for data and time series analysis are highly preferred. Experience with at least one of the employed technologies is a plus:·       Business Intelligence Tools, preferably Power BI·       Databricks or more generally Apache Spark·       MS-SQL Server, Oracle DBMS·       Functional programming with Scala language·       Angular/Typescript
Minimum qualifications·       A master’s degree in a STEM discipline     ·       You must have obtained your degree in the past 1 year, or be studying for it now.       ·       Firm mastering of Python and SQL for data analysis·       A good level of written and spoken English and Italian (B1 minimum).       ·       Good team working and collaboration attitude.        ·       You are an Italian resident or planning to relocate to Italy.       ·       If you’re from a non-EU country, you must have a valid EU visa or work permit. Contract Type·        Full-time, permanent contract.

About usWe’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, data, and business insights to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. We are a truly global company; we employ 13,000+ people at 60+ offices and serve 4,800+ customers worldwide.   The Leadership Development Program opportunity is also available within the ION Group family of companies. Important notesAccording to the Italian Law () please note that candidates from the disability list will be given priority. Due to the high volume of applications, only those candidates that meet the required criteria for selection will be contacted. Please do not apply if you don’t currently have the legal right to work in Italy, or if that right is just about to expire, or if that right has restrictions imposed which would prevent you from undertaking a full-time employment contract.