First Team Data Scientist
Posted 13 days 2 hours ago by Kick It Out
Permanent
Full Time
Other
Yorkshire, Wales, United Kingdom, S26 5
Job Description
JOB TITLE: First Team Data Scientist
DEPARTMENT: First Team Analysis Department
SALARY: Depending on Experience
BENEFITS:
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Private Medical Insurance & Health Cash Plan
- 2 x Complimentary home match tickets
- Discounted Club Merchandise
- Enhanced Family Leave Payments
RESPONSIBLE TO: Head of Data
KEY RELATIONSHIPS:
- 1st Team Performance Analysts
- First Team Coaching Staff
CONTRACT: Full Time (40 hours)
WORKING HOURS: The role requires an individual who can perform such hours as necessary to complete their roles and responsibilities. The position will involve working irregular hours (e.g., Evenings/Saturdays/Sundays/Bank Holidays) based around team schedules.
THE ROLE This role will be responsible for the day-to-day use of data within the First Team Football Departments. Embedded within the First Team Analysis department, this role will foremost support the first team coaches and analysts with the match analysis cycle of opposition, individual, team performance and training analyses through the use of data. Additional responsibilities of this role will be to support the use of data across the wider football department including Sports Science, Medical and Recruitment. ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES- Be an integral part of the club's use of data across the match analysis cycle, providing data support and reporting across each of the following areas: Opposition Analysis, Live Match Analysis, Post Match Analysis, Monitoring of team, opposition and individual performances
- Build and update bespoke club specific KPIs
- Trend analysis across the league and the wider footballing world, reporting on findings and comparisons with the first team
- Keep up to date with the latest developments in football analytics and drive the club's use of data to stay at the forefront of this space
- Design and build data visualisations for the use of first team analysts and coaches
- Attend all home matches supporting live match analysis with data as well as remote support for away matches
- Contribute to ongoing projects and research
- Support the use of data across the football department in Analysis, Coaching, Medical, Sports Science & Recruitment
- Perform ad-hoc analyses as required
- STEM degree (Preferred)
- Experience of handling and manipulating large data sets for data analysis
- Understanding of how data science can be applied in a professional football setting
- Knowledge of & experience using football event data (Statsbomb, Opta, WyScout etc.)
- Comfortable interacting with databases using SQL
- Data visualisation experience using Python and BI Tools such as Tableau (preferred) or PowerBI
- Experience of a programming language, preferably Python and accompanying packages such as pandas, numpy and football/sport specific packages like matplotlib, PySport, MPLSoccer, Kloppy etc.
- Experience of presenting to audiences that do not possess data/technical backgrounds
- Proficient using Mac OS and/or Windows OS & software including; Keynote, Numbers, iBooks, Microsoft Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word)
- Masters in Data Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science or similar
- Experience of retrieving and handling data from APIs
- Experience handling Tracking Data (Second Spectrum, TRACAB, GPS etc.) with the ability to extract practical insights
- Experience with football data analysis software (Catapult Matchtracker or Hudl Insight)
- Full UK driving license & access to vehicle