Applied NLP & ML Research Team Leader

In London Stock Exchange we are dealing with many NLP problems, such as text classification, named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, text summarization, question answering and more. We are looking for a research team leader to lead our super talented research team and help us continue building industry-leading language technology.  
Duties and responsibilities:  
Manage a team of 4 NLP Researchers,
Lead the team to develop cutting-edge solutions for a large variety NLP problems using Machine Learning and Deep Learning techniques. 
Interact with the development team leaders and with the product department to ensure optimal application of the algorithms. 
Be part of the Data Science Group management
Required skills, knowledge, and experience: 
M.Sc. or PhD in Computer Science or Mathematics, with specialization in machine learning or natural language processing
Solid Machine Learning and NLP background and familiarity with cutting-edge technologies
Hands on experience with machine learning and deep learning Python libraries
Experience in leading research/data science teams
Scientific thinking and the ability to invent and come up with novel solutions to algorithmic questions
Good written and verbal communication skills
General requirements: 
Innovative thinker 
 Problem solver 
 Self-managed (independent) 
 Responsible 
 Hard worker 
Scientific thinking and the ability to invent and come up with novel solutions to algorithmic questions
Good written and verbal communication skills
Innovative thinker 
Problem solver 
Self-managed (independent) 
Responsible 
Hard worker