Sports Data Analyst - Remote

Overview

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.

In Short

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, genetic, military, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• Position responsibilities are subject to change.
• May require successful completion of background and reference checks.