Your role
Do you learn best through reverse-engineering? Do you know how web pages work? Are you interested in becoming a hero within a team of existing heroes? We’re looking for someone like you to:
- manage our global, diverse, and overly talented team of web miners.
- innovate by identifying quicker, better, easier ways to vacuum data off the internet
- use experience, intuition and technical know-how to guide project decisions
Your team
We are Evidence Lab and work within the Global Research division of UBS. Our unique data-driven approach to investment research is revolutionizing the industry. Our team is led by visionaries and our culture is like a start-up (without all of the risk). You can learn more about Evidence Lab here.
At the heart of this capability is the ability to systematically collect, cleanse, enrich and analyze unique data about the companies that we do research on. The Web Mining team is responsible for answering the call to find, obtain and collect any dataset necessary to complete our research. Every call is a new challenge and another opportunity to demonstrate excellence.
Your experience and skills
You have:
- 2+ years database experience
- 5+ years combined experience in Python and/ or Java
- detailed knowledge of Browser-Web Server interaction including DNS, HTTP, SSL, GET vs. POST
- experience with ETL processes and applications
- experience in web scraping/SEO/Search/Analytics related projects is preferred
- ability to self-manage and prioritize workload
- agile/Scrum or similar approaches to project management
- project management skills are desirable
You are:
- fluent in English
- ready to join a fast growing team in a dynamic and challenging environment
- relentless in pursuing new ideas and self-improvement
- full of energy and able to persevere through technical issues
- a team player willing to learn / share solutions and best practices from your colleagues
- able to think outside of the box and solve abstract, ill-defined problems
About us
Expert advice. Wealth management. Investment banking. Asset management. Retail banking in Switzerland. And all the support functions. That's what we do. And we do it for private and institutional clients as well as corporations around the world.
We are about 60,000 employees in all major financial centers, in almost 900 offices and more than 50 countries. Do you want to be one of us?
What we offer
Together. That’s how we do things. We offer people around the world a supportive, challenging and diverse working environment. We value your passion and commitment, and reward your performance.
Take the next step
Are you truly collaborative? Succeeding at UBS means respecting, understanding and trusting colleagues and clients. Challenging others and being challenged in return. Being passionate about what you do. Driving yourself forward, always wanting to do things the right way. Does that sound like you? Then you have the right stuff to join us. Apply now on
www.ubs.com/polandcareers
