Senior Data Scientist (mwd)

Location: Hybrid München / Frankenthal / Hamburg / Cologne / Remote Germany

A hands-on Data Scientist with AI production experience responsible for designing building and operating the data and ML platform from scratch.

Start: ASAP Languages: Fluent English

Make the Unseen seen! Our goal is to reinvent scouting in football and build the #1 global scouting platform for identifying and developing talent. With the help of modern AI technology CUJU enables every young football talent to be seen regardless of origin gender or social background. We create fair opportunities and transparent pathways into professional sports. Our platform connects athletes clubs and organizations worldwide to rethink scouting data-driven objective and mobile. Together we are shaping the next generation of global talent scouting.

Your Mission: As a founding member of CUJUs new Data Team you will build the data and analytics backbone of a football performance and talent diagnostics platform used by players scouts and clubs worldwide.

You will work with large-scale football performance data generated from smartphone video recordings standardized drills and AI-based movement analysis transforming raw noisy inputs into reliable production-grade data products. You will design and implement systems that ingest process and analyze player data enabling objective benchmarking longitudinal player tracking and data-driven talent identification.

Beyond performance analytics you will also enable product and business insights building analytics around user behavior feature adoption retention and churn to inform product decisions and growth. This role is for someone who understands that football data and product analytics are built through software: robust pipelines scalable cloud infrastructure and well-engineered analytics not just offline modeling.

We are looking for someone who is comfortable building deploying and maintaining production-grade data systems. Your work will directly power CUJUs core use cases across player evaluation development insights talent discovery and product optimization.

Tasks

What Youll Work On:

End-to-End Data Systems:

• Design build and maintain robust data ingestion pipelines for large-scale player and performance data.
• Implement clean versioned and well-tested data flows from raw data analytics production systems.
• Own data quality monitoring and reliability in production.

Software Engineering & Cloud:

• Write clean maintainable and well-structured Python code following software engineering best practices.
• Build and deploy data services and jobs on AWS (e.g. S3 Lambda ECS/EKS Glue Athena Redshift etc.).
• Optimize pipelines for scalability cost efficiency and performance.

Predictive Analytics: Develop robust predictive models using machine learning statistical analysis and advanced analytics techniques to forecast performance injury risks and talent potential.

Data Product Development: Collaborate closely with Product AI and Engineering teams to translate analytical insights into innovative data-driven product features and offerings.

Strategic Influence: Drive data-driven decision-making across product development business strategy and operational improvements.

Requirements

What You Bring:

• 7 years of professional experience in data-heavy roles (data science data engineering ML engineering or similar).
• Strong programming skills in Python (clean architecture testing modular design not just scripts).
• Solid SQL skills and experience designing analytical schemas.
• Hands-on experience building production data pipelines and services.
• Strong experience with AWS and cloud-native data architectures.
• Familiarity with infrastructure concepts (CI/CD monitoring logging deployments)
• Experience applying statistical methods and ML in real products.
• Comfortable working with imperfect real-world data and evolving requirements.
• Focus on business and product impact not just model performance
• You understand that data work is software engineering.
• Proven ability to translate complex data insights into clear impactful business recommendations.
• Excellent communication skills in English with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional and international teams.
• Passionate about sports performance analytics and leveraging data to make a real-world impact.

Benefits

• Opportunity to be the founding member of a strategic new Data team.
• Significant influence on CUJUs growth product strategy and industry-leading innovation.
• Diverse benefits e.g. 30-day vacation competitive compensation corporate benefits and more
• Work at the intersection of sports and technology with international clubs partners athletes or influencers
• Creative freedom & responsibility actively shape processes contribute your ideas and make a real impact
• Short decision-making paths direct communication quick decisions and close collaboration with management
• Flexibility hybrid or on-site in our Munich office
• Personal development individual learning opportunities and room to grow beyond yourself
• Diverse benefits e.g. 30-day vacation competitive compensation corporate benefits and moree environment
• Purpose & impact build something together that transforms the world of sports

Your Impact:

• Build the technical foundation of CUJUs data platform.
• Enable scalable reliable and production-ready analytics across the company.
• Shape how data is ingested processed and used in products from day one.
• Directly influence player insights product features and long-term data strategy.

Is this your next big play

Are you passionate about sports communicative and eager to actively shape the future of sports Then we look forward to your application!

Please send us your CV directly via the application link for JOIN.

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