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Sports Data Lead - Alternative Data at Unlok

Sports Data Lead - Alternative Data
Unlok
Chicago, IL
Full-time
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Posted 7 September 2026
AnalyticsMid-level
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Job Description

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

  • Real-time / streaming data
  • Betting or financial markets
  • ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS
  • Prediction markets

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.

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