Junior Data Scientist

Junior Data Scientist

Your team

This is an exciting opportunity for a Junior Data Scientist to join our team to help create the next generation of sports betting product.

The role will focus on use of emerging technologies to augment both new and existing data feeds with manually derived insights, creating new products and identifying opportunities for optimal processes.

This role is a key part of the overall strategy to power the number one sports betting content platform with the leading provider of horse racing data and analysis.

What you’ll do

• Your primary focus will be with generative AI technologies to create leading analysis and data led content

• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods

• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems

• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis

• Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear and timely manner

• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance

• Conducting industry and company-specific research

How you’ll do it

• Education: Bachelors or higher within relevant area of study such as Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics or similar.

• Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms (k-NN, Naïve Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests etc).

• Good applied statistics skills, such as distribution, statistical testing, regression etc.

• Working knowledge of generative AI software and a passion for learning in this area

• Experience with common data science toolkits such as R

What’s on offer

• £/€1,000 learning fund

• Twice-yearly bonus (with part of it guaranteed!)

• Unlimited Holiday

• Pension contribution scheme

• Private healthcare

• Hybrid Working -

• Access to thousands of Udemy courses

• Invest via the Company Sharesave Scheme

About Flutter UK & Ireland

Our division operates four of the most popular and trusted brands in the market: Sky Betting and Gaming, Tombola, Betfair and Paddy Power.

Together the Flutter UK&I brands offer market leading entertainment to millions of customers every single week! Over the last couple of decades, they have all ridden the wave of digital betting with industry firsts like ‘cash-out’, ‘Request a Bet’, betting exchanges and free to play games like Soccer Saturday Super 6.

Working here

Do you want to work somewhere extraordinary? From the people you spend your days with, to the ground-breaking projects, no two days will be the same.

With a philosophy of ‘Together We Are More’ our 7,000+ colleagues come together to form an expert community across technology, product, commercial, data, infrastructure, marketing, and a myriad of subject areas.

We listen without judgement, encourage & support, and help build others up. Working at Flutter UK&I means you can be yourself, work how and where suits you best -and let your personality shine!

We’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.