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Data Scientist – Cricket

  • Location : United Kingdom
  • Address : London, England, United Kingdom
  • Salary : Depending on experience
  • Contract length : Full Time

Full job description

Pythia Sports are looking for a creative thinking and experienced person to join their established in-house modelling team as a 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.

Candidate Overview

The successful Data Scientist will be an innovative, self-driven person with high levels of integrity. They will be working closely with local and remote teams and therefore need to be highly communicative, but also work well independently. They must be well organised and have the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.

Company Overview

Pythia Sports is a fast growing technology company with a focus on predictive sports modelling and data collection. We focus on being the best at what we do and recognise that our success comes from having the best employees and keeping them happy. We pride ourselves on hiring talented, creative and free thinkers.

Here you will find a relaxed atmosphere, monthly social events and amazing people! When working from the office, there are also free snacks,team lunches, coffee & tea.Office attendance is expected twice a week.

We also offer private health and dental insurance, cycle to work scheme, enhanced paternity and maternity leave, enhanced sick pay, 28 + 8 days bank holiday annual leave, discretionary annual bonus and exciting development opportunities.

Pythia Sports employees are expected to embrace the company philosophy of integrity combined with innovation and cutting edge technology

Benefits:

  • Additional leave
  • Casual dress
  • Company events
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Discounted or free food
  • Enhanced maternity leave
  • Enhanced paternity leave
  • Flexitime
  • Free fitness classes
  • Free flu jabs
  • On-site gym
  • Private medical insurance
  • Referral programme
  • Sick pay
  • Store discount
  • Work from home

Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

  • Bonus scheme

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Job Details

Salary

Depending on experience

Required Skills & Experience

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.

Experience using advanced statistics and modelling techniques – preferably in sports field
PhD or equivalent industry experience with data
Strong programming skills, with a preference for Python
A track record of using data to solve complex problems
Experience working with cloud computing (desirable).

A keen interest in cricket, especially limited overs cricket
Previous professional experience working with cricket analytics

Location

Contact Information

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London, England, United Kingdom