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Sports Data Lead - Alternative Data at Unlok Sports Data Lead - Alternative Data at Unlok in Berkeley, Illinois Posted in 5 days ago.
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full-time 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 Bonus Experience with real-time data pipelines and streaming systems Experience in betting, financial, or prediction markets Familiarity with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Kafka, or AWS PhD 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.