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Data Science Manager

London, England, gb💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-18 → 2026-09-25

Core

Managing leads of sport-specific modelling teams to ensure consistency, alignment, and delivery of forecasting models for sports betting products.

Role type

Senior IC data science manager (sports analytics)

Builds

Production forecasting models and risk systems for sports betting

Domain

Sports analytics and betting products

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Team management, resource planning, model development, deployment, advanced programming (R/Python/C#/Java), cross-functional planning, capacity management, hiring, performance management

Preferred skills

Scaling data science functions, model governance, cloud services (AWS), strategic thinking

Technologies

R, Python, C#, Java, AWS

Responsibilities

Resource planning for data scientists, managing and coaching data science leads, supporting leads in forecasting model delivery, maintaining technical standards and code practices, addressing capacity and capability challenges, collaborating with delivery and engineering, shaping department strategy and hiring plans, facilitating cross-team learning, acting as escalation point, representing the function in leadership meetings

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities

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