Senior Quant Model Engineer
Location: Wimbledon, United Kingdom
Contract Type: Full Time Permanent
ApplyOur DevOps culture is strong: we believe in “release small, release often.” Thanks to our fully automated CI/CD pipelines, we push over 13,000 releases to production every year, delivering value to customers in real time. We use modern technologies across backend, frontend, apps, data and infrastructure, and we’re continuously evolving. We tackle complex engineering challenges such as real-time scalability, database migrations with no downtime, and peak transaction loads, all while maintaining an exceptional and safe customer experience.
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Senior Quant Model Engineer
Role Description
The Quant Teamat FDJdevelopsand deploysquantitative sports models, enabling in-house pricing across a variety of sports, markets and products.The team isan important componentof the vision for the future evolution of the FDJ United Sportsbook Platform. The Quant Team is split into two workstreams: Quant Researchand Quant Engineering. We are looking for a talentedSenior QuantModel Engineer tohelp us buildandoptimize predictive sports modelsas part of the Engineering team. The successful candidate will workveryclosely withthe Quant Research team,as well as witharchitects, MLOps engineers and other key stakeholders. This position would be ideal for any strong software engineeror software-focusedresearch analyst withstrong proficiency in Python, an interest in sports betting,and the ambition to work on high-impact projects amongst a friendly and intelligent team!
KeyResponsibilities
•Turn exploratory predictive models from the Research team into resilient and scalable model libraries and services.
•Be a key stakeholderin planning, designing,andimplementing high-quality production code that will have a clear impact on the progression of products within the sportsbook.
•Buildrobust APIs and interfaces to allow controlled access to Quant's predictivemodels and data products.
•Make active contributions to the development of probabilistic pricing models and their efficiency.
•Work alongside senior Quant Team members to plan outand take ownership of long-term work-streams.
•Promote work and contributions for use within the team and the wider business, through global collaboration, conversations, written reports, and presentations.
•Dedicate time for investigating new techniques and methodologies that can benefit theteam and wider business.
Expected Attributes
•A minimum of4-5years commercial experience in a similar rolefocussed on model developmentand deployment,as part of a quantitative or data science lifecycle.
•Excellent Python skills and advanced theoretical and applied understanding of the principles of object-oriented programming.
•Experience with Python libraries for optimised scientific computing, specifically NumPy, SciPy and Numba.
•Experience building and deploying statistical models in a production environment.
•Applied experience demonstrating specialism inbuilding production quality APIs Classified as General
•Experience applying software development best practices such as version control, unit testing, linting and CI/CD.
•An excellent communicator, both written and verbal, able to explain complex topics to non-specialists
•A problem-solving growth mindset with the ability to pick up new tools and concepts quickly.
•Confidence to make clear recommendations to support decision making, e.g. around project priorities and planning.
Desirable Attributes
•Masters degree or PhD in STEM subject.
•Experience deploying containerised applicationsusing Dockerand Kubernetes.
•Experience writing and deploying software within cloud-based environments, ideally AWS.
•Experience with frameworks and technologies used in component orchestration, including Airflow or equivalent.
•Experience working with sporting data or demonstrable knowledge and interest in this area, including an interest in sports betting.
•Good knowledge of additional coding languages,for exampleJava or C++.
Ensure that you adhere to the Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) obligations for your role.
- Identify and raise any non-compliance incidents promptly to your line manager.
- Challenge processes, policies and projects that will negatively impact compliance within the Group.
- Complete all mandatory compliance training assigned to you.
- Reach out to the Compliance Teams if unsure of any of your compliance obligations or the requirements are unclear.
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