Senior Data Scientist

Company Description

Entain India is the engineering and delivery powerhouse for Entain, one of the world’s leading global sports and gaming groups. Established in Hyderabad in 2001, we’ve grown from a small tech hub into a dynamic force, delivering cutting-edge software solutions and support services that power billions of transactions for millions of users worldwide. 

Our focus on quality at scale drives us to create innovative technology that supports Entain’s mission to lead the change in global sports and gaming sector. At Entain India, we make the impossible possible, together.  

Job Description

As our Senior Data Scientist you will be building high quality (normally deployed to a production environment) systems that align with our strategic goals, and are fully integrated with our products and processes. You will work with stakeholders around the globe to scope our solutions, help them understand, test and adopt our solutions.

You will operate both as an individual contributor as well as a part of a larger delivery team, with a need to task manage more junior DS as needed. You will have a broad technical background to help shape and deliver cutting edge machine learning solutions across a wide functional landscape including CRM, Responsible Gambling, churn modelling, customer lifetime value, cross sell, player protection, as well as clustering and forecasting.

Are you ready to launch a winning career? 

What you will do

• Build models and machine-learning algorithms, taking the opportunity from ideation through to deployment in our live production environment
•  Analyse large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns, presenting the results in a commercial impactful manner
• Extract and interpret the business insights and provide recommendations based on those insights
• Apply mathematical rigor and a highly refined sense of both "where to look next" and "what todo instead" when performing your analysis
• Undertake pre-processing of structured and unstructured data for your analytics
• Conduct research and development activities, data exploration and discovery, develop prototypes, algorithms and proof of concepts, leveraging leading data science and technology solutions – bring in the best of the wider community to the team.
• Communicate data collection and statistical methodologies and their results, to both technical and non technical audiences 

Qualifications

• The candidate should have minium 5+ years of experience 
• Proficient in the application of data science concepts to commercial problems
• Strong data science, predictive modelling, Machine Learning and AI understanding and experience
• Exposure to SQL, Python, Spark, GitHub, Airflow, docker technology, and Kubernetes
• Experience in working with vast amounts of data to detect trends and patterns
• Proficient in translating business needs into technical data science requirements
• Analytics mind-set skill with the ability to turn a business question / problem into an analytics plan, deciding on what data to use, how to transform it, what methods / models to apply, how to turn the outcome into usable, actionable output
• Strong understanding of A/B testing techniques

Additional Information

We know that signing top players requires a great starting package, and plenty of support to inspire peak performance. Join us, and a competitive salary is just the beginning. Working for us you can expect to receive great benefits like:

• Safe home pickup and home drop (Hyderabad Office Only)
• Group Mediclaim policy
• Group Critical Illness policy
• Communication & Relocation allowance
• Annual Health check

And outside of this, you’ll have the chance to turn recognition from leaders and colleagues into amazing prizes. Join a winning team of talented people and be a part of an inclusive and supporting community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves.

At Entain India, we do what’s right. It’s one of our core values and that’s why we're taking the lead when it comes to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive future - for our people, and the wider global sports betting and gaming sector. However you identify, across any protected characteristic, our ambition is to ensure our people across the globe feel valued, respected and their individuality celebrated. 

We comply with all applicable recruitment regulations and employment laws in the jurisdictions where we operate, ensuring ethical and compliant hiring practices globally.

Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.