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Trading Data Scientist Graduate
Role Overview
Pythia Sports are looking for creative thinking and experienced graduate or final year student to join their in-house exchange trading team.
The purpose of the role is to conduct statistical analysis of sports events, developing predictive models which can be used to create and refine automated trading strategies.
This is a hybrid role with London Victoria office attendance expected twice a week.
- Schedule: Monday to Friday
- Recently graduated or graduating by summer 2025 with a good numerate degree
Benefits:
- 28 days + Bank Holidays leave
- Purchase up to 5 extra days of holiday/year
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexible schedule
- Private medical insurance
- Optical and Dental cover
- Generous paternity and maternity leave
- Referral programme
- Company sick pay
- Team lunches
Senior Data Scientist - Cricket
- Develop a deep understanding of the data, its limitations and meaning, including the investigation of data validity
- Build and analyse data-driven predictive trading models
- Select or build model validation metrics to evaluate model performance
- Develop automated trading strategies – backtesting, paper and production trading
Key Skills / Qualifications
- Recently graduated or graduating by summer 2025 with a good numerate degree
- Practical experience with statistics and machine learning
- Strong Python programming skills, with knowledge of Pandas, Numpy and Scipy
- Experience with SQL
- A track record of using data to solve complex problems
- Knowledge and interest in sports, gambling and trading will be helpful