Sports Data Lead - Alternative Data
unlokOak Park, IL
Sports Data Lead - Alternative Data
L5
unlokOak Park, IL3 days ago
Unlok is building a next-generation real-time and historical data platform for event-driven markets. We're looking for a Sports Data Lead to build our sports data foundation from the ground up.
What You'll Do:
- Source and evaluate sports data feeds, APIs, and providers
- Build canonical datasets across teams, players, leagues, games, and events
- Map and reconcile data across multiple sources
- Own data quality, accuracy, latency, and historical integrity
- Define rules for postponements, cancellations, corrections, and other edge cases
- Work closely with engineers to build scalable ingestion and data pipelines
- Expand coverage across major global sports
What We're Looking For:
- 4+ years working professionally with sports data
- Deep understanding of sports events, schedules, results, and data structures
- Experience with Sportradar, Stats Perform/Opta, Genius Sports, SportsDataIO, TXODDS, or similar
- Strong SQL + practical Python
- Experience with APIs, data normalization, and entity resolution
- Exceptional attention to detail and data-quality mindset
- BonusExperience with real-time data pipelines and streaming systems
- Experience in betting, financial, or prediction markets
- Familiarity with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Kafka, or AWSPhD in a relevant field is a plus
- Not a sports betting, handicapping, or trading-strategy role.
- If you love sports data and want to build something from scratch, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now
Level
SeniorL5
Location
Oak Park, IL
Occupation
Data Scientists
Industry
Software Publishers
Posted
3 days ago
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