About the Company

Football Radar have been successfully developing statistical models and analytical frameworks for football for over 10 years. We provide advice to football clubs, and we are also a leading provider of betting advice, where we have helped our clients achieve outstanding returns for over 10 years. We see ourselves as an interesting mix of start-up and established business, with the agility of the former and the security of the latter.

About The Role

At Football Radar we have two small data science teams. A prediction team, focused on the betting and prediction side of our business; and a club consultancy team, developing models and products to help decision making within football clubs. Your role as a data engineer will be to help support these teams, by taking ownership of the importing, organisation and transformation of data from different sources to make sure it’s always up-to-date and easily accessible. In practice you will be working on things like:

• Automating pipelines for importing and updating data from third party sources

• Transforming existing data into more accessible formats

• Building smaller and more manageable datasets from larger, more cumbersome datasets 

• Helping improve the speed and reliability of our ETL process and the quality of data available to our data scientists 

• Collaborating with our software engineering and data science teams to make sure we have a consistent development and operations approach 

• Managing and monitoring cloud databases and other cloud infrastructure 

What We’re Looking For

• An ability to make pragmatic and sensible choices about what approaches to use – you can judge when it’s right to obsess about the details, and when it’s right to ship an MVP as fast as possible

• Strong problem solving skills, with an ability to proactively identify challenges and propose solutions

• Experience with SQL and relational databases, including query optimisation 

• A decent level of Python

• Familiarity with AWS or another similar cloud platform (we use AWS for almost everything, and prior experience with AWS is a bonus, but not essential if you have experience with a similar platform and similar tools).

• Experience building data pipelines, and awareness of best practices

What we offer

• Half yearly bonus opportunities based on company performance

• 33 days holiday (Including bank holidays)

• Competitive contribution matched pensions

• Health and well-being benefits:

• Private Medical Insurance (including excess coverage)

• Health Cash Plan via Bupa

• Subsidised gym membership

• Daily subsidised office meals

• Learning and development budgets to invest in your personal growth

• Company and team led engagement activities throughout the year

• Fortnightly five-a-side game amongst colleagues