What you’ll be doing

• Manage the Pricing Models quant-team.
• Create pre-match and in-play model prototypes and communicate these clearly to the team for implementation.
• Mentor the team on best practices when it comes to creating forecasting pricing models
• Establish testing standards for pricing accuracy and technical performance.
• Ensure coding principles are being implemented.
• Ensure that modelling process is well documented.
• Create yearly roadmaps with various milestones to monitor the progress of the team.
• Collaborate closely with product owners and software developers to move projects from idea to integration.
• Communicate with clients the key elements that govern the model.
• Report to the Director of Data Science on workflow and share findings with the Data Science team.

What you’ll bring

As a prerequisite to be considered for the role, you must have 3+ years working experience as a Quant or Data Scientist in the betting industry. 

• 3+ years working experience in the betting industry
• 3+ years of working experience in a managerial position of a Data Science team
• A postgraduate qualification in Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics or a closely related quantitative field
• Advanced programming skills: (a) statistical programming (R or Python), (b) object-oriented programming (C# or Java) and (c) SQL
• Experience with various modelling techniques (e.g. Probability Distributions, GLMs, Monte Carlo Simulations, Bayesian Inference, Time-Series Analysis etc.)
• A demonstrable interest in developing forecasting models for sports

Nice to Haves…

• A PhD in the quantitative field.
• Experience with various supervised/unsupervised/reinforcement learning methodologies (e.g. Neural Networks, Random Forests, GBMs, SVMs etc.)
• Experience with database management tools.
• Experience with data visualisation platforms (e.g. Tableau, Qlik Sense, R-shiny etc.).
• Experience with version control platforms (e.g. GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket etc.)
• Experience with Jira and Confluence.

Why would you enjoy working with us at OpenBet?

• Competitive benefits, including pension plan and private insurance for you and your family members as well as extra leave days for volunteering and other purposes.
• The opportunity to work within a truly international Company, where you can expect the diversity and the opportunities of the world, mixed with a people friendly culture.
• A wide palette of training opportunities and internal and external learning sources, from onboarding, to on-the-job training by our subject matter experts.
• As a software house, we have a relaxed but highly professional environment with excellent facilities available, including on-site canteen & gym, showers, video, board and electronic sports games as well as lending library.
• We love to get together and throw a number of group events, to celebrate new comers, enjoy some good meals together and show off our sport talents as part of company tournaments (basketball, table tennis and others!).