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Senior Data Scientist - Cricket
Role Overview
Pythia Sports are looking for a creative thinking and experienced person to join their established in-house modelling team as a Senior Data Scientist in cricket modelling and simulation. The purpose of the role is to develop, and conduct statistical analysis of, human-interpretable predictive models for a cricket prediction pipeline.
This is a hybrid role with London Victoria office attendance expected twice a week.
- Additional pay: Bonus scheme
- Schedule: Monday to Friday
- Education: PhD (preferred)
Benefits:
- 28 days + Bank Holidays leave
- Purchase up to 5 extra days of holiday/year
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexible schedule
- Private medical insurance
- Optical and Dental cover
- Generous paternity and maternity leave
- Referral programme
- Company sick pay
- Team lunches
Senior Data Scientist - Cricket
- Have a deep understanding of the data, its limitations and meaning, including the investigation of data validity
- Uncover trends in multiple sports datasets
- Build and maintain data-driven predictive models
- Research and apply novel modelling techniques
- Build and maintain model validation metrics to regularly track performance
- Have awareness of the limitations of any model output
- Have an understanding of statistical robustness and validity.
Key Skills / Qualifications
- Multiple years experience in a team-leading role utilising advanced statistics and modelling techniques – preferably in a sporting context
- PhD or equivalent industry experience with data
- Strong programming skills, with a preference for Python
- A long and proven track record of using data to solve complex problems
- Experience working with cloud computing (desirable).
For this role, the following attributes and experience would also be a big plus:
- A keen interest in cricket, especially limited overs cricket
- Previous professional experience working with cricket analytics