Looking for a talented Quantitative analysts/developer who is interested building and developing sports trading models

Closed Posted 4 years ago Paid on delivery
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Are you an experienced Quantitative Analysts/Developer (C#,.NET, Sports Betting, Quant) who want a new challenge of building and maintaining solutions to support trading systems. This will involve the implementation and refinement of sport trading models to enable delivery of robust prices across all major sports events.

You will be responsible for all stages of developing and implementing innovative prediction models for sports including data collection and processing, exploratory data analysis, diagnostics, communicating results and integration with automated trading algorithms. You will need to be able to work individually or as part of a team. Your analysis will improve business understanding in order to maximise our return on investment for our trading activities.

The culture is one of continuous learning, accountability, collaboration and impact. We are looking to hire talented developers who wish to master their technical skills, perpetuate a knowledge-driven environment and enjoy collaboration and solving complex problems.

Essential Skills:

Either: (i) a PhD or MSc in statistics, mathematics, physics or another discipline with a strong quantitative component or (ii) equivalent industry experience

Experience building models in sports betting markets

Extensive experience using R, Matlab or Python for data analysis and model development

Experience developing forecasting models including the use of methods such as GLMs, Monte Carlo simulation, numerical optimisation, smoothing and Bayesian statistics

Experience with either Python, C++ or Java

A basic understanding of databases (preferably Postgres)

Familiarity with the betting industry and/or sports prediction models

R Programming Language Statistical Analysis Data Analytics Data Science Mathematics

Project ID: #24789416

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