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Data Science Manager

Xcede
Greater London
11 months ago
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Xcede are working with one of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming organisations in their search for a Data Scientist to work on their personalisation, recommender systems, fraud models, forecasting, real-time odds creation and more!


This is a chance to join an extremely talented ten person Data Science & ML team (circa 50 supported by a wider Analytics Unit of circa 70) who take training and career growth seriously.


Responsibilities


  • Work on a variety of Data Science projects in the central global data science function
  • Collaborate with Machine Learning Engineers to ensure models go into production and are successful
  • Contributing to identifying data science led opportunities to the business and communicating them to various stakeholders


Requirements


  • Relevant commercial Data Science experience (can be in different sectors)
  • MSc or PhD in a relevant academic area
  • Strong Python experience
  • Strong applied Machine Learning & Statistical knowledge and experience (XGBoost, Random Forest, GBM, etc.)
  • PySpark experience is a bonus


If this role interests you and you would like to find out more, please contact us via (feel free to include a CV for review).


We’re consistently working on a large number of Data Science requirements that are not always advertised here, so even if this role isn’t the one for you, please do get in touch!

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