Quantitative Sports Trading Analyst

Trading Interview; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SIG is seeking a candidate to join the Sports Analytics team to develop statistical forecasting models for sports betting liquidity. You will work with researchers, traders and technologists to test ideas on real data and write software implementations of models and strategies.

Role requires strong mathematical abilities, coding proficiency, and experience with sports analytics projects. Travel may be required; occasional off-hour coverage is possible.

Qualifications

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills with a math/physics/statistics/economics background.
• Excellent logical reasoning and problem-solving abilities.
• Exceptional communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience writing code to process and analyze large data sets.
• Demonstrated sports analytics or quantitative project experience.
• Willingness to travel internationally as needed.

Responsibilities

• Immerse yourself in sports analytics and quantitative trading research.
• Empirically test ideas using real industry data.
• Write programs to implement models and trading strategies.
• Collaborate with researchers, traders, and technologists.
• Spend time trading to ground model development in real-world insight.
• Occasionally provide off-hour coverage for deployment and testing.

Skills

Quantitative skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Coding to process data

Sports analytics

Travel readiness

Education

Advanced degree in Math/Stats/CS/Engineering/Economics

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

SIG is seeking a candidate to join the Sports Analytics team to develop statistical forecasting models for sports betting liquidity. You will work with researchers, traders and technologists to test ideas on real data and write software implementations of models and strategies.

Role requires strong mathematical abilities, coding proficiency, and experience with sports analytics projects. Travel may be required; occasional off-hour coverage is possible.