Junior Analytics Engineer

Closing Date of Applications – 28/10/2024

Our Story

Established in 2013, City Football Group is the world’s leading private owner and operator of football clubs, with total or partial ownership of twelve clubs across the world. City Football Group also invests in other football related businesses and serves as a global commercial platform for our partners, whilst fulfilling our purpose of empowering better lives through football on a local and global scale, consistent with what “City” football has meant to people for over a century.  

Our Winning Team

At City Football Group, our Football Intelligence team are continuing to evolve and improve our impact on the decision-making processes across our football clubs. Through continued investment in data science and analytics we are testing and refining footballing principles and building solutions that enable key stakeholders and performance practitioners to make better decisions faster.

Operational and strategic football decisions at CFG are heavily reliant upon insights derived from the continuous pipelines of data that are ingested, quality assured, transformed, and incorporated into user-facing solutions every day. Robust data management is therefore crucial to the success of CFG on and off the pitch.

This role will work within our data engineering team, and in close collaboration with data scientists, to deliver robust, efficient, and integrated data solutions, placing the power of our machine learning and statistical models into the hands of key football stakeholders.

This is Your City 

As part of our team, you will be entitled to 26 days annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday, private healthcare and a simply health cash plan, an annual discretionary bonus, plus a range of partnership and lifestyle discounts. 

Your Impact

1. Working within the Football Intelligence team alongside a team of Analysts & Data Engineers to manage our data collection processes and maintain databases, providing quality assured and optimized data sets ready for football analysis.
2. Responsibility for maintaining and developing pipelines for landing, ingesting and quality-assuring datasets from a wide variety of providers, working in both SQL and Python.
3. Supporting our data scientists by productionising newly developed models and advising on engineering best practice to improve code efficiency and readability.
4. Apply engineering best practice to analytics (e.g. CI/CD, version control, testing etc)

What we are looking for

Essential

• Substantial experience with SQL to build and QA tables, views, and stored procedures, and conduct other database maintenance tasks.
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools (such as Azure Data Factory, AWS data pipelines, Apache Airflow) and big data tools (such as Databricks, Spark, Hadoop or similar)
• Experience with coding in Python, and knowledgeable of software engineering best practices, particularly when deploying and productionising statistical and machine learning models.

Desirable

• Experience working with a variety of sports data related to scouting, football performance, sports science and medicine.

City Football Group promotes equal opportunities in employment and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

We will screen all applicants and select candidates whose skills and experience seem to meet our needs. We will carefully consider your application during the initial screening and will contact you only if you are selected for an interview. 

Employment is subject to the provision of proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

Due to our safeguarding promise, all UK based CFG roles will be subject to a DBS check upon commencing employment with us. This will be either a basic, standard or enhanced check depending on the job role and responsibilities.