BettingJobs are currently recruiting for Data Scientist for a leading gambling operator either remote based or from one of their offices in London, Toronto or Stockholm.
Responsibilities:
• Acquire and Store data from various sources related to Sports Betting markets including: sports data, betting market data, twitter data, etc
• Visualize, Analyze, and Interpret data
• Build and maintain data products and user interfaces for business users
• Interact with public API’s, such as Twitter, to collect relevant sports data
• Organize data products into API’s used to build internal data products and share data resources with business partners
• Develop unique approaches to solving complex modelling and inference problems, which combines the market and trading knowledge with a mathematical approach
• Travel may be required
Requirements:
• Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Statistics/Economics or related study
• Expertise in R and other statistical programming languages (3+ years)
• Experience in Frequentist and Bayesian Statistical methods (2+ years)
• Experience working with Machine Learning algorithms, Probabilistic Models, and/or other statistical modelling approaches (2+ year)
• Experience with modern R packages such as dplyr, ggplot2, data table
• Experience in front-end R technologies for data products such as ShinyR, FlexDashboards
• Ability to write complex SQL queries
• Good Software Engineering Design Principles, such as Design Patterns
• Cloud Computing experience desirable
• Some Python experience desirable
