At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a dynamic quant team to ensure high-quality data for sports betting analysis.
- Company: BettingJobs, a growing player in the sports betting industry.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with a focus on innovation and problem-solving.
- Why this job: Make an impact by transforming complex datasets into reliable insights for modelling.
- Qualifications: Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience in data engineering and analysis.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
BettingJobs is seeking a Data Engineer to join a small but growing quant team in the sports betting industry. Working alongside the modelling team, you will be responsible for ensuring they have access to reliable, well-structured and high-quality data for research, modelling and analysis. From building robust Python-based workflows to investigating complex data issues and assessing new data sources, the Data Engineer will be responsible for extracting maximum value from the data.
Responsibilities:
- Work day-to-day with quant modellers to prepare, refine and maintain datasets used for research, modelling and analysis.
- Investigate data issues affecting modelling outputs, identifying root causes and working with relevant teams to resolve them.
- Build and maintain Python-based data workflows and pipelines for ingestion, transformation and validation of modelling data.
- Maintain and develop historical data assets, ensuring they remain accurate, accessible and fit for analytical use.
- Work with engineers to improve upstream and downstream data flows, ensuring critical data is captured and processed effectively.
- Ensure data quality and integrity through validation, reconciliation and targeted monitoring across key datasets.
- Expand visibility into data issues by improving checks, alerts and investigative workflows across critical pipelines.
- Define and improve data logic, transformations and assumptions, ensuring they are clearly documented and consistently applied.
- Support data migrations, backfills and structural improvements to improve the reliability of modelling datasets.
- Contribute to tooling and processes that make it easier to explore, prepare and troubleshoot data used by the quant team.
Requirements:
- Strong experience in a Quant Data Engineer, Research Data Engineer or similar role working with complex datasets.
- Understanding of the sports betting industry.
- Strong Python skills for data processing, investigation and workflow development.
- Excellent SQL skills and solid experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
- Proven experience preparing, transforming and validating datasets for analytical, modelling or research use cases.
- Experience investigating data issues and tracing problems through pipelines, transformations and source systems.
- Experience building and maintaining data pipelines or processing workflows in production environments.
- Strong understanding of data quality, reconciliation and validation practices.
- Experience working with analytical data warehouse technologies such as ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake or Redshift (beneficial).
- Experience with version control systems (preferably GitLab) and tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
- Comfortable working with messy, incomplete or evolving datasets and turning them into reliable assets.
- Experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with distributed teams.
- Excellent attention to detail, strong problem-solving ability and clear verbal and written communication skills.
Data Engineer - Quantitative Analysis in Slough employer: BettingJobs
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