Quantexa Big Data Graduate Program

Big Data

Graduate Programme

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Contents

Quantexa around the globe

Discover how you fit in

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B e a n ex p l o re r

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About us

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What we offer

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Personal development

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Wo r l d - c l a s s t r a i n i n g a n d d e v e l o p m e n t

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Yo u a re t h e f u t u re

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Benefits of Quantexa

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H o w Q u a n t ex a w o r k s

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Our technology stack

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Our success stories

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H o w t o a p p ly

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Discover how you fit in

Quantexa’s cutting-edge technology helps businesses gain the insights they need to solve real world problems across financial crime, fraud, customer insights and more.

Now, we’re searching for passionate, resilient and dedicated graduates to help us stay one step ahead.

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Our Quantexa DNA is made up of:

Logical thinkers

Creative innovators

To create a product that

You are passionate about

shapes the world, you

new ideas and you’re

need to think logically. Our

constantly looking for

team combines decades

better ways to do things.

of data science and data

We have built a culture of

engineering knowledge to

success that encourages

get to the right conclusion.

ideas, values and honesty.

Solution finders

Problem solvers

You are a team player.

Great ideas don’t just

Working as part of a team is

happen. You must be

integral to our success, and

passionate about problem

together, we use exciting

solving to help us

new technology across our

overcome the challenges

projects to find solutions to

our clients face.

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Be an explorer

Real-world problems. Cutting-edge technology. Unrivalled growth.

With a career at Quantexa, every day is different.

Our projects vary from client to client, so you’ll constantly be learning new technologies and working alongside different members of the business.

You’ll also be working with big data to solve problems in different areas, including financial crime, customer intelligence and compliance.

We operate under an agile methodology – that means every team member is treated equally and your daily tasks will always be different. Our focus is finding the solution.

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Now, we are on the search for the best talent to join us. We want creative innovators, logical thinkers, problem solvers and solution finders.

Through Quantexa’s graduate programme, you will gain exposure to the world of big data and network analy tics, working with exciting technologies from the get-go. You’ll enroll on our dedicated training academy providing you with the skills to succeed.

With our extensive career progression and development oppor tunities, you’ll be inspired even after completion to grow fur ther as an individual.

Are you ready to push the boundaries?

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About us

Founded in 2016, Quantexa was built upon a simple belief: with a greater understanding of context, better decisions can be made.

SEPTEMBER 2016 SWIFT Innotribe Challenge Winner

OCTOBER 2017 Microsoft Accelerator Programme Winner

JULY 2018

APRIL 2018 Quantexa featured in The Financial Times

We open our US offices – New York and Boston

FINANCIAL TIMES

MARCH 2016 Quantexa is founded by a team of six financial crime experts

$3.3m MARCH 2017

$20m APRIL 2018 HSBC becomes a customer

We secure $3.3m Series A Investment

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APRIL 2018 Quantexa named in Tech Nation Future 50

AUGUST 2018 We secure $20m Series B Investment

Quantexa’s technology connects the dots within data using dynamic entity resolution, network generation and advanced analy tics to empower businesses to see the bigger picture.

SEPTEMBER 2018 We reach 100 employees!

JULY 2019

MARCH 2019 Quantexa appears on CNN

FEBRUARY 2019 Quantexa featured in the The Times

100

Quantexa appears on Sky

Reached 200 employees

SKY

CNN

THE TIMES

SEPTEMBER 2019

200

QuanCon

JANUARY 2019 Laura Hutton Women in FinTech Powerlist

FEBRUARY 2019

SEPTEMBER 2019

Quantexa hosts own conference, QuanCon

Featured on Sunday Times Fast Track Ones to Watch list

MAY 2019 Quantexa named a “Cool Vendor”

by Gartner

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What we offer

On Quantexa’s graduate programme, you will use leading technologies to work on big data projects that have exposure to data science, data engineer and DevOps methods.

In your first three months you’ll learn Scala – our primary language – so you’re confident using our platform. You will also have exposure to our big data tools including Spark and Hadoop, with our platform being hosted on Google cloud (GCP). You will learn how to create entities, build networks and load data using Elasticsearch in the Quantexa interface.

The following nine months you’ll work across multiple projects for various clients, alongside different technical experts. Here’s how a typical project looks from beginning to end:

Investigate and understand the problem and the data needed to solve it

Use innovative entity resolution to create a dynamic customer view

Uncover previously hidden connections using network generation

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Use advanced analytics and machine learning to locate entities of interest

Personal development

When you join Quantexa, you’ll be assigned a mentor who will help offer guidance and support throughout your career. With regular catchups over a coffee or a beer, this will give you the chance to talk through your career aspirations, what you want to achieve and how we can do this together.

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World-class training and development

Through our graduate programme, you will build the foundation for continuous success at Quantexa – and that starts with our Quantexa Training Academy.

What to expect

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Regular catch ups with your Team Lead

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Coaching with a mentor

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New technical skills

During your training, you’ll have ongoing guidance and support from your

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Cutting-edge technologies

Team Lead, plus regular reviews throughout. We also provide online

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Fun and exciting workplace

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Ability to travel

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Ongoing training and personal development

Our Quantexa Training Academy is an intensive 12-week programme, designed for you to learn new technical skills. You will learn how to generate real-world solutions using open source technologies and our big data tool set.

course materials to give you all the information you need to accelerate as a Quantexan grad.

Upon completion of the Academy, you will be certified in Quantexa technology and fully prepared to work on our exciting projects.

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“As my first job, Quantexa has exceeded my expectations on what I imagined a graduate scheme would be like. Working at a scale-up has given me the opportunity to be trained on the latest open-source technologies, while enjoying the culture of a small company.

Everyone here is always happy to help and share their knowledge to grow the business.

I can’t wait to keep moving forward with Quantexa.”

A ng el a Nune z I gl e si a s G r ad u a t e

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You are the future

We set you up for success.

You will have access to Safari Online, which gives you exposure to a broad range of materials to expand your knowledge and skillset.

We support your development.

To date, our graduates have worked across our business as Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Technical Leads, Solution Architects and Cloud Engineers.

Throughout your training, we’ll continuously check in with how you’re getting on through regular reviews and ongoing personal development opportunities.

We encourage our staff to move into management and leadership roles later on in their career. You’ll have the chance for further technology training with the potential to travel around the globe.

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Benefits of Quantexa Competitive salary Company bonus Private healthcare, life insurance & income protection Pension scheme (with a company contribution of 6%)

25 days annual leave (with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days)

Amazing working environment Working with the latest technologies Frequent socials Ongoing personal development

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How Quantexa works Quantexa uses dynamic entity resolution, network generation and advanced analytics to bring together unconnected data to create 360o view of a customer. We use clients’ internal data and enrich this with external information to build context so our clients can see the bigger picture.

Entity Resolution

Financial Crime

Customer Insight

Network Generation

KYC Operations

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Advanced AI Framework

Fraud

Credit Risk

Our technology stack

Quantexa products

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Services Development tools (IDE)

Analysis tools

UserWeb Interface Extensible Application

Real-time requests

RESTful APIs

Batch Processing Tier

ETL

Entity Resolution

Hadoop/Hive

Network Generation

Scoring

DataFrame/Dataset

Data Layer

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Entity Resolution

Network Generation

RDBMS

Scoring

Mid Tier Dynamic

our success stories

CASE STUDY

Our success stories DEAN Graduate in MSc Data Science and Analytics Brunel University and BSc Computer Science (Games Technology) Nottingham Trent University

What development and learning oppor tunities are there?

What’s your role and the most exciting thing about it?

What’s the most exciting thing your role?

Scala and about Spark are highly sought-after technical skills in the world of I’m currently the Academy Team Lead at Quantexa, data science and engineering – you’ll complete these within the first which means I welcome all the new joiners and help t wo weeks of training. From there, you’ll learn how to use our product them star t their training at Quantexa. If you need to do things like E TL, entit y resolution, net work analy tics and scoring to assistance when creating a training project using discover interesting net works and entities within data. our soft ware, I’m your guy.

What skills have you picked up?

When I joined Quantexa, I completed a Scala and Apache Spark training course which provided me with the knowledge to complete the Quantexa Academy task. Technical skills aside, I’ve also improved my communication and organisational skills by overseeing the training of employees, clients and par tners.

What’s it like working at Quantexa?

I’ve been here for a few months, having joined from a global consultancy.

The culture here is completely different and it is a great place to work.

Ever yone is friendly and our new office is amazing. Plus, there are lots of social events to take par t in.

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CASE STUDY

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C H A R LO T T E Graduate in Discrete Mathematics from the University of Warwick

What development and learning oppor tunities are there?

What’s your role and the most exciting thing about it?

What’s most exciting thing role?

Ever y newabout projectyour you are involved in is a learning experience. Even as I’m a data engineer which means I workthe closely a graduate, you are trusted to pick up new things meaning you always with our clients to conver t the raw data they have the oppor tunit y to learn. Other team members have also always provide into a format that can be used by Quantexa been eager to teach me new skills. There’s a great atmosphere of sharing to generate our networks. I love that no two days of knowledge. work are the same – even after a year of working here I’m often working with something completely new.

What skills have you picked up?

Going into a job straight from universit y is a huge jump. I studied Maths and Computer Science so much of what I learnt at universit y was theoretical.

Now, I’ve picked up invaluable practical skills, like learning new technologies I hadn’t used before, including the entire Quantexa technology stack.

What’s it like working at Quantexa?

Working for a young company instils a sense of responsibilit y early on in your career. You’re trusted to be independent from an early stage.

I’ve found it to be an amazing challenge which has pushed me out of my comfor t zone. The social side to the company is also great, meaning you quickly get to know people throughout the company.

CASE STUDY

Our success stories CLAIRE Graduate in Masters of Mathematics from the University of Southampton

What development and learning oppor tunities are there?

What’s your role and the most exciting thing about it? most exciting role? creates a career enhancement environment Thething rapid about grow thyour of Quantexa I’m responsible for producing What’s code thatthe enables unlike no other. I regularly have oppor tunities to develop professionally Quantexa’s large corporate clients to detect market as well as constantly learning new technological skills as we expand our oppor tunities and fraud risk by manipulating products. Quantexa also encourages learning from outside influences huge datasets with billions of data rows. The such as a Spark conference in Amsterdam! most exciting par t is the limitless possibilities of working with big data.

What skills have you picked up?

My coding ability has increased tenfold since university.

I’ve used technologies such as Jenkins, AWS and Kubernetes as well as using KNN in a business setting.

I’ve also had the opportunity to present my work to clients on three different continents. My next challenge is learning to manage my own team.

What’s it like working at Quantexa?

Working in a scaleup is incredible as you can directly see how your daily effor ts contribute to the success of the company. Quantexa’s culture encompasses a collective journey to help teach each other and produce a great product together.

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A LU N Graduate in MSci Physics from Imperial College and MSc Data Science: University of Southampton

Do you get many development and learning oppor tunities?

What’s your role and the most exciting thing about it?

What’s the most exciting thing about your Each project offers newrole? ways to stretch your comfor t zone and Quantexa I work in deliver y across a variet y of different is dynamic and agile allowing you to pursue your interests. The culture projects, including spending three months in New here is people-centric and I’ve always found suppor t when I am tackling a York. My current role is a technical lead on a large hard problem. Plus the fast grow th has meant less than 2.5 years after I project for a European Bank. I love having a holistic graduated, I was the technical lead of a team of six people. view of a project and seeing firsthand the value we deliver by talking to the users and stakeholders.

What skills have you picked up?

Early on I picked up communication and technical skills focused on Scala and Spark but also other technologies and languages like P y thon, GCP, Docker and Kubernetes. Recently I have developed management and leadership skills as well as design and architecture.

What’s it like working at Quantexa?

I joined Quantexa as the 15th employee and was drawn to the culture and people. They were smar t and driven individuals but also valued the impor tance of inclusivit y and suppor ting each other. Three years later, we are 10 times the size, but the values remain the same. Management are still engaged and willing to listen to anyone who talks to them.

How to apply

20 Key application dates:

Step 1

Step 2

(Apply Online) We like to keep our application very simple from entering a few personal details to the submission of your CV.

(Phone Screen) Successful applications will progress to an initial 30-minute phone screening with our dedicated recruitment team. This 30-minute call is designed to assess technical skills, find out about your experiences and interest in Quantexa. As well as answer any questions you have about our Big Data Programme.

Step 3

Step 4

(Coding Assignment) Successful candidates will then

APPLICATIONS OPEN on 7 th October 2019 APPLICATIONS CLOSE on 13 th January 2020 We will be holding our grad days in mid February.

Successful candidates will be offered in March 2020.

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progress to our coding assignment. Where we assess your ability to pick up on our programming language Scala.

(Graduate Day) Should you pass our coding assignment we will then invite you in for our graduate day. This is a chance for us to get to know the real you. Assess your teamworking skills and your love of big data.

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