Job Title: Hockey Data Scientist
Department: Hockey Operations
Reports To: Assistant General Manager and Head of Analytics
FLSA: Exempt
Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Amerant Bank Arena, Sunrise, Florida

Job Summary:
While the art and science of leveraging data for insights in sports has been around for decades, there is still a tremendous amount of room for innovation in the hockey world. This is your chance to join one of the franchises in the NHL that is at the tip of the spear when it comes to implementing data into the hockey operations decision-making cycle. The Florida Panthers are looking for a data scientist in the early part of their career to contribute energetically to this effort. You will be critical to the franchise’s future success while also serving as a key member of the growing Hockey Data Science Team.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Specific duties include but are not limited to:

• Utilize various hockey data sources, including new spatiotemporal tracking data, to build predictive statistical models which will aid in decision making pertinent to player acquisition, roster construction, and many other areas of Hockey Operations
• Create customized reports, visualizations, and dashboards designed to ease the data interpretation process
• Work with Data Engineers and the entire Data Science team to help with the acquisition of data using automated coding pipelines
• Interface with other members of Hockey Operations to assist in the delivery and translation of information

Qualifications:

• Fluency in Python and R, particularly as it pertains to a wide array of statistical modeling methods such as Generalized Linear Models, Bayesian hierarchical or mixed effects models, Tree-based methods, Gaussian Processes, and Neural Networks
• Experience working with datasets larger than a terabyte
• Undergraduate level understanding of linear algebra and calculus
• Ability to create useful data visualizations and deploy them to web applications
• General data acquisition, SQL, scraping, wrangling, and cleaning competence
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Extensive hockey knowledge and experience, playing or otherwise

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:This is an exempt (salary) position located in Sunrise, FL. Must be able to work flexible hours, nights, weekends, and holidays as needed or required by the demands of the NHL schedule.