Senior Data Scientist - Cricket

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