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