Senior Data Scientist
Sportradar is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to report to the Head of Quants. The role involves working closely with colleagues in Quants, as well as various product owners, developers, and traders company-wide. The department is responsible for creating predictive models for both pre-match and in-play betting markets in various sports. This typically requires cleaning up, visualising, analysing, and interpreting relevant data, as well as implementing the created models in Java and testing them. Publishing and maintaining these Java libraries is also one of the responsibilities. Furthermore, the team provides various data analysis or generally math-related tasks on demand.
- Learn how predictive models look like in a betting context and build models on your own.
- Support the team in maintaining the codebase.
- Analyze/evaluate/optimize existing predictive models as model co-owner.
- Research new methods for future applications.
- Master’s degree or equivalent/higher qualification in one of the following disciplines: Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Software Engineering or a closely related field (required).
- Experienced in predictive modelling, with a deep understanding of data analysis and modelling techniques such as GLMs, Time-Series Analysis, Bayesian Statistics, MCMC, neural networks, etc (required).
- Very strong skills in R or python (required).
- Advanced coding and analytical skills (required).
- Strong communication skills, fluency in English (required).
- Creative thinking, keen to further refine systems and processes (required).
- Highly self-motivated, leading by example and enthusiasm (required).
- Being a team player, with the ability to work with new teams immediately (required).
- Strong interpersonal skills (required).
- Experience in object-oriented programming, preferably Java (preferred).
- Experience with Gitlab, Jira & Confluence (preferred).
- Experience with SQL (preferred).
- A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world.
- Impactful work: Contribute to the development of groundbreaking products that influence industries globally.
- Ability to shape your own workday and career via a clearly defined professional and personal development plan.
- Opportunity to work with senior leadership, develop yourself and build your career within an inspiring and fast-growing company and digital sports environment.
- Flexible working model.
Sportradar is a global sports technology company that collects, analyses and distributes sports data to betting operators, sports leagues and media companies. Headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and founded in 2001, it provides betting services, managed trading, integrity monitoring and audiovisual streaming across hundreds of sports. The company holds official data partnerships with organisations including the NBA, NHL, FIFA and ICC. Sportradar is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and employs several thousand people worldwide.