Senior Data Scientist

Job title:

Senior Data Scientist

Company

Entain

Job description

Company DescriptionWe are Entain. Our vision is to be the world leader in sports betting and gaming entertainment by creating the most exciting and trusted experience for our customers, revolutionising the gambling space as we go.We’re home to a global family of more than 25 well-known brands and, with a focus on sustainability and growth, we will transform our sector for our players, for ourselves and for the good of entertainment.Sports betting, gaming and interactive entertainment is changing, and we’re leading that change. By putting people first. By placing exciting, engaging and entertaining experiences at more fingertips than ever before. We’re pulling into pole position by pushing boundaries further. With innovation. With technology. But most importantly, with people like you. Because when you join Entain, it’s your game. So let’s win together.Job DescriptionEntain is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to join our team. As our Senior Data Scientist you will be building high quality (normally deployed to a production environment) systems that align with our strategic goals, and are fully integrated with our products and processes. You will work with stakeholders around the globe to scope our solutions, help them understand, test and adopt our solutions.You will operate both as an individual contributor as well as a part of a larger delivery team, with a need to task manage more junior DS as needed. You will have a broad technical background to help shape and deliver cutting edge machine learning solutions across a wide functional landscape including CRM, Responsible Gambling, churn modelling, customer lifetime value, cross sell, player protection, as well as clustering and forecasting.Are you ready to launch a winning career?We are a global team central to Entain, building intelligent automated decisioning tools, across all our geographies and brands, to acquire, retain and engage our customers. This gives us a vast range of opportunities to work on, and our work is paramount to the company’s vision and success. You can choose one of our offices in London or Gibraltar as your team will be split between these locations. You will benefit from access to learning resources and conferences and be part of a fun and inspirational work environment!What you will do

• Build models and machine-learning algorithms, taking the opportunity from ideation through to deployment in our live production environment
• Analyse large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns, presenting the results in a commercial impactful manner
• Extract and interpret the business insights and provide recommendations based on those insights
• Apply mathematical rigor and a highly refined sense of both “where to look next” and “what todo instead” when performing your analysis
• Undertake pre-processing of structured and unstructured data for your analytics
• Conduct research and development activities, data exploration and discovery, develop prototypes, algorithms and proof of concepts, leveraging leading data science and technology solutions – bring in the best of the wider community to the team.
• Communicate data collection and statistical methodologies and their results, to both technical and non technical audiences

Qualifications

• Proficient in the application of data science concepts to commercial problems
• Strong data science, predictive modelling, Machine Learning and AI understanding and experience
• Exposure to SQL, Python, Spark, GitHub, Airflow, docker technology, and Kubernetes
• Experience in working with vast amounts of data to detect trends and patterns
• Proficient in translating business needs into technical data science requirements
• Analytics mind-set skill with the ability to turn a business question / problem into an analytics plan, deciding on what data to use, how to transform it, what methods / models to apply, how to turn the outcome into usable, actionable output
• Strong understanding of A/B testing techniques

Additional InformationAt Entain, we know that signing top players requires a great starting package, and plenty of support to inspire peak performance. Join us, and a competitive salary is just the beginning. Working for us in London (Stratford), you can expect to receive great benefits like:

• Generous group bonus scheme
• Hybrid working – 2 days in the office
• Private medical insurance
• Pension scheme – matched to 6%
• Ability to buy and sell holiday
• Free subscription to wellbeing app Unmind
• Additional “It’s Your Game” day off to use at either Christmas or New Year
• Entain & Enhance days – 2 paid days off to focus on your professional or personal development
• Share save scheme
• Paid subscription to LinkedIn Learning

And outside of this, you’ll have the chance to turn recognition from leaders and colleagues into amazing prizes. Join a winning team of talented people and be a part of an inclusive and supportive community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves.Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.At Entain, we do what’s right. It’s one of our core values and that’s why we’re taking the lead when it comes to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive future – for our people, and the wider global sports betting and gaming sector. However you identify, our ambition is to ensure our people across the globe feel valued, respected and their individuality celebrated.

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Sun, 08 Sep 2024 22:15:11 GMT

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