Data Analyst / Analytics Engineer at Smarkets

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London, UK

Who are we?

Smarkets is a betting exchange for sports and political trading that has handled over £29 billion in volume since 2010. Our company mission is to fix the betting industry with the best products and best prices. We are upending the sports betting industry by growing a transparent platform that offers the best value for bettors, with the fairest odds, best technology and a superior customer experience.

Smarkets is a Series B tech company that brings a professional, product-led approach to our mission. We embrace collaboration, trust, innovation and scientific rigour, while we celebrate ambitious goals and passionate energy. Our culture rewards people on merit and excellence and we strive to provide a working environment where recognition, challenges, support, collaboration, interesting benefits and shared meals provided by our chefs mix together to let you unlock your potential, grow with us and become your best self.

Join our team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our betting trading technology landscape.

Role Objective

We have a great opportunity for a data all-rounder who can carry out high-level analysis to provide actionable insights to the business using the vast data available in our warehouses, as well as play a key role in the analytical engineering that prepares our “one source of truth” datasets in the company. You will be a key player in our mission to democratise data across the organisation through the development of our self-service data platform. The role sits within the Data and Analytics function which puts you in a position to work with a team of data professionals and have a business-wide impact with your work.

Primary Responsibilities

Translate business requirements into technical data solutions, build required measurement and tracking across key strategic initiatives and empower business users through high quality data and insights
Carry out robust data analysis to provide actionable insights to the business, identify new trends in our customer base and unpack areas for improvements through data
Work with departments across the business to establish KPIs, provide insights and enable a data-driven approach within their teams
Develop dashboards and reports that fit into our wider dashboard suite providing hands-on access to data to colleagues
Transform raw data into clean, tested and well-modelled data sets to enable robust data analysis to be carried out
Collaborate with our data engineers to ensure end-to-end data processing is robust, reliable and delivers against analytical requirements

Essential Skills and Experience

4+ years experience in the field of Analytics Engineering and/or Data Analytics
Strong understanding of data modelling techniques, ETL/ELT pipelines and data warehousing principles
Data presentation techniques, story-telling through data and stakeholder management
Experience with the development side of at least one BI tool (e.g Tableau, Looker)
Advanced SQL skills
Experience working with cloud-based data warehouses (Redshift, BigQuery)
Experience with dbt
Experience with Git and version control principles
Python skills are a bonus

Our Values

Push to win
Make others better
Give a shit
Be a pro
Bring the energy

Our values are at the heart of everything that we do. We believe these are the fundamentals to ensure we are delivering what’s expected of us in the best way possible for ourselves and for those around us.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary package and benefits, along with a dynamic and collaborative work environment. Your work with us will make an impact and your voice will be heard.
We are a diverse team with a strong work ethic and plenty of hunger to win. We have designed our benefits offering around Health, Wealth, Lifestyle and Development.

These include:

Stock options which vests over 4 years
Pension scheme - An impressive pension scheme via Aviva. We will match 6% if you choose the same
Health insurance
Fresh fruit and snacks provided in the office everyday! (tea, coffee, soft drinks also included)
We’re a member of a cycle-to-work scheme
We want to continue to invest in all our employees and do so by providing a £1000 yearly education budget that can be used on courses, conferences, books or training
25 days paid holiday + bank holidays to enjoy - you have the choice to carry over 5 days to the next year!
Flexible working - we want to provide a hybrid model approach to working and provide you with 2 days a week working from home.
20 days a year of global working - we provide the ability to work from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days a year.
We will provide you lunch everyday in the office - you don’t need to worry about feeding your belly as we have it sorted with top quality food served by our in-house Chef Alex!