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Pentasia · 2 weeks ago

Senior Data Scientist- Sportsbook Risk & Modeling

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level

Pentasia is seeking a Senior Data Scientist specializing in Sportsbook Risk & Modeling. This role involves building and maintaining analytical models to support user segmentation, risk tiering, and abnormal betting detection, with a focus on practical applications that have clear business impact.

RecruitingSkill AssessmentStaffing Agency
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Senior Management
Hiring Manager
Austin Barber
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Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain classification, clustering, and scoring models related to:
User segmentation and profiling
Risk tiering and risk scores
Abnormal betting and abuse detection
Perform feature engineering using betting, transactional, and behavioral data
Monitor model performance, stability, and drift over time
Translate model outputs into production-ready assets such as:
Segment labels and risk scores
Dashboards and monitoring tools
Partner with Risk, Trading, and CRM teams to ensure models are interpretable and actionable
Support investigations with data-driven insights and analysis
Clearly explain model logic, assumptions, and limitations to non-technical stakeholders
Contribute to documentation, data quality standards, and analytics best practices

Qualification

Advanced SQLClassification techniquesClustering techniquesScoring techniquesApplied data scienceMachine learning in PythonMachine learning in RBehavioral datasetsBusiness decision translationData quality standardsCollaborationCommunication

Required

Advanced SQL and experience working with large behavioral datasets
Practical experience with classification, clustering, and scoring techniques
Ability to translate analytical output into business decisions

Preferred

Prior experience in sportsbook, iGaming, fraud, payments, or risk analytics
Familiarity with betting data structures and sportsbook KPIs
Experience operating in regulated US gaming environments
hands-on experience with applied data science or machine learning in Python or R

Company

Pentasia

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Pentasia is a recruitment agency that offers recruitment, staffing and skill assessment services.
dateFounded in 2001
location
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://www.pentasia.com/

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage

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