Cricket Data Scientist: Predictive Analytics

CricViz; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Company pension scheme

Eye Test Contribution

Life Insurance

Training and Development Opportunities

Job summary

CricViz, a market leader in cricket data analytics, seeks a highly skilled Data Scientist to develop proprietary metrics and predictive models from high-frequency tracking data. You will transform complex data into production-ready analytics products for professional clients.

The role requires a Mathematics/CS/Data Science degree and 2+ years of end-to-end DS experience, strong Python/SQL skills, and a passion for cricket.

Qualifications

• Degree in Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, or related quantitative field.
• 2+ years applying data science methods in end-to-end pipelines.
• Experience with feature engineering, model training, deployment and validation.
• Cricket domain knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop new metrics from raw tracking data.
• Collaborate with private clients to build custom predictive models.
• Productise data into productionised Data Science models.
• Oversee back testing and optimisation for model accuracy.
• Work with Engineering and Product teams to deliver client feeds.

Skills

Python

SQL

Machine learning

Pandas

Scikit-learn

XGBoost

LightGBM

Education

Mathematics degree

Data Science degree

Computer Science degree

Job description

CricViz, a market leader in cricket data analytics, seeks a highly skilled Data Scientist to develop proprietary metrics and predictive models from high-frequency tracking data. You will transform complex data into production-ready analytics products for professional clients.

The role requires a Mathematics/CS/Data Science degree and 2+ years of end-to-end DS experience, strong Python/SQL skills, and a passion for cricket.