The Role

LiveScore is establishing an advanced data engineering and data science lab in Ireland, LiveScore Labs, which works hand in hand with our Product, marketeers and Business Intelligence team based at our Headquarters in central London, Piccadilly (although we remain remote for now!).

We are looking for motivated individuals to form a fast-paced, ambitious team which will tackle some of the most technical & analytical challenges in the data-driven world of sports betting.

Key Responsibilities

You will work closely with the product team and the data team, across multiple products and all channels (iOS, Android, Web) your goal will be to:

• produce high end, engaging & complex data visualisations in Tableau, and potentially other reporting tools, for a variety of stakeholders across the business.
• gain a good understanding of the business including, among others, sports betting & publishing, acquisition, retention, finance & customer service.
• use this knowledge and your competent SQL skills to develop dashboards and present the data fitting for the audience.
• understand our core data, tracking tools and be able to reconcile data across a variety of data sources including our Google BigQuery data warehouse.
• be an evangelist for getting the most from data through data visualisations within the business.

Key Skills/Experience

• A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or equivalent
• 2+ years' experience in data visualisation, data analysis or data engineering with large-scale complex datasets
• 2+ years' experience developing complex, engaging reports in Tableau
• Knowledge of Google BigQuery and/or other relational database management systems
• Proven experience with SQL
• Experience with agile scrum or Kanban and modern CI/CD development practices
• Analytical mindset – problem solving through analytical techniques

Desirable Experience

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform particularly Google BigQuery
• Experience with Google Analytics, GA360, Firebase, Tableau, iOS/Android, Web applications, Segment, MixPanel, Google Tag Manager, Google AdManager
• Experience dealing with high volume transactional data
• Experience using data-driven decisions to influence product roadmaps
• Previous experience in sports or sports-betting industries

We need someone to take ownership of

• Tableau reports / visualisations for all products and channels for the entire group
• Alerting users to data and reports that they need to be aware of
• Ensuring reports are fit for the end users' requirements
• Ensuring the Tableau portal is easy to use
• Promoting the data and associated reporting as a means to make policy and strategic decision changes
• Providing relevant training for all end users
• Ensuring the quality and consistency of all reporting
• Explanation of reporting to the relevant team
• Bring new ideas/technologies to the eco system

The Person

• Be detail oriented enough to achieve high data quality
• Have high level product thinking to be able to generate visualisations that change the way people think about the data and the business
• Have a creative quality to ensure reports are usable and engaging
• Have good comms to coordinate and promote the data and visualisations.
• Be able to convince the relevant teams to use the data and visualisation in certain directions

What can we offer?

• Performance bonus
• Private Healthcare scheme
• Ride to Work Scheme
• Virgin Tribe – access to exclusive Virgin offers and experiences
• Life Assurance (x3 salary)
• Contributory Pension Plan
• Festival summer and cracking Christmas parties

About Us:

LiveScore Group is home to the world's largest scores and stats provider, boasting more than 56 million dedicated monthly users, and a sportsbook that truly packs a punch. Delivering live scores, results, tables, news and facts via native apps and an unbeatable website, LiveScore throws the spotlight on football, cricket, tennis, basketball and hockey.

Launched in May 2019, Virgin Bet offers daily price boosts and a huge range of markets across all major sports. Delivering unsurpassable user experience, quality customer service and betting choices galore, we have the perfect line-up to disrupt the sportsbook market. From now on, sport is at the forefront of our agenda.

Whether it be first-in-class designers, leading industry marketeers or technology, we'll continue to make an impact by growing our talent pool across the globe. Taking our products to the fingertips of users internationally, we intend to combine our skills to create the best odds for a bright and lucrative future — and win.