[Hiring] Sports Data Analyst @Swish Analytics

Role Description

• Work closely with Data Scientists and Engineers to diagnose and treat data pipeline integrity issues
• Detect data inaccuracies such as missing, out of range or otherwise incorrect on-field data
• Source origins of data inaccuracies through data pipeline dependencies and python code base
• Define data validation tests to flag future game errors
• Research accurate roster active statuses, primary positions and game participation
• Validate data changes after logic updates
• Production model feature deep dives to explain project market lines
• Clearly document findings
• Develop intimate familiarity with existing databases and construct metadata references
• With guidance, support lead Data Scientists in feature development and model analysis

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Data Science or similar major
• Minimum of 1 year of experience in football data analysis
• Deep knowledge of football, basketball or baseball; including roster compositions of professional and college teams, general gameplay strategies, and typical in-game scenarios
• Data Extraction, Wrangling and Analysis in Python
• Strong SQL querying skills
• Attention to detail

Requirements

• Strong Python data management programming skills (preferred)
• Data Visualization experience with a user application like Streamlit (preferred)
• Deep knowledge of a second sport including football, basketball, baseball, hockey or tennis (preferred)
• Exposure to the data science process and tech stack (preferred)
• Anomaly Detection Techniques (preferred)

Company Description

Swish Analytics is a sports analytics, betting and fantasy startup building the next generation of predictive sports analytics data products. We believe that oddsmaking is a challenge rooted in engineering, mathematics, and sports betting expertise; not intuition. We're looking for team-oriented individuals with an authentic passion for accurate and predictive real-time data who can execute in a fast-paced, creative, and continually-evolving environment without sacrificing technical excellence. Our challenges are unique, so we hope you are comfortable in uncharted territory and passionate about building systems to support products across a variety of industries and consumer/enterprise clients.