Job Description

Basic information

Position Title

Data Research Specialist - Equity Strategy

Experience Level

5 - 8 Years

Department

Investment Operations & Risk Services (IORS)

Location

Bangalore

Organizational relationships

Position reports to

Associate Director

Job Purpose

Acuity Analytics is seeking a Data & Research Specialist to join our team on a long-term embedded engagement with a leading global investment bank's equity strategy research group. The role sits at the intersection of quantitative research, data infrastructure, and client relationship management, supporting factor-based research production for institutional clients.

Key responsibilities

• Lead point-in-time (PIT) data infrastructure design and maintenance for fundamentals and estimates datasets, ensuring backtest-secure, lookahead-free data for factor research
• Conduct quantitative factor research — factor construction, validation, and performance analysis — supporting the firm's published equity strategy research
• Support the quant/strategy team on equity stock selection models,



including backtesting and evaluation of fundamental factor inputs
• Construct and maintain factor scores (value, growth, momentum) to identify most-favored and least-favored stocks within the coverage universe
• Own data quality control processes: build and maintain QC scripts/checks for large-scale securities data (fundamentals, estimates, pricing)
• Evaluate and select third-party data vendors (e.g., FactSet) for research use cases, assessing coverage, methodology, and fit
• Support production of client-facing research reports and notes, working closely with strategists
• Serve as a direct point of contact for institutional client data/research queries, both from internal teams publishing client-facing content and from external clients directly
• Lead and mentor a small team (1-2 members), overseeing delivery quality and workload prioritization
• Act as a bridge between the firm's strategy research tea

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