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Data Engineer, Baseball Systems
Boston Red Sox, United States
Experience
1 Year
Salary
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
No
Qualification
As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Oct 17, 2022
Last Date
Nov 17, 2022
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Job Description
POSITION OVERVIEW:The Data Engineer, Baseball Systems position will be a member of the baseball operations software development team, and is responsible for integrating, collecting, processing, and storing many sources of baseball data, as well as designing and building new data solutions. This position must be comfortable with on-premises and cloud solutions, and take the initiative to explore new optimizations and cutting-edge data technologies. This individual will work closely with our data architect, analysts, developers, and other members of baseball operations.RESPONSIBILITIES:- Build leading-edge baseball solutions together with the software development team, analysts, and others on new and existing baseball systems
- Build and maintain integration pipelines, often via an API or file-based, while also identifying areas of improvement and spending time to re-architect when required
- Build and maintain infrastructure to optimize extraction, transformation, and the loading of data from various sources
- Design, build, and maintain data warehousing solutions for the software development and analytics teams
- Build and maintain tools for the analysts to enable more efficient and extensive data modeling and simulation efforts
- Participate in key phases of the software development process of critical baseball applications, including requirements gathering, analysis, effort estimation, technical investigation, software design and implementation, testing, bug fixing, and quality assurance
- Actively participate with software developers and data architects in design reviews, code reviews, and other best practices
- Work closely at times with baseball analysts to design and implement data solutions
- Respond to and resolve technical problems and issues in a timely manner
SKILLS QUALIFICATIONS:- TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Statistics, Information Systems, or a related field
- 2-3 years of experience in a Date Engineer role
- Proficiency with SQL and query optimizations, stored procedures, views, and other database objects
- Experience building custom API integrations, interfacing with JSON, XML, and custom data structures
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud services, such as Cloud SQL, RDS, Redshift, Azure SQL, Azure SQL DW, or others
- Experience building data solutions using Python, C#, C++, Ruby, or other languages
- Experience with scheduling and workflow management platforms, such as Airflow
- Experience with ETL tools and pipelines from various platforms
- Experience with big data frameworks such as Hadoop or Spark is a plus
- Experience with R and RStudio is a plus
- GENERAL SKILLS
- Ability to work autonomously and as a team in a fast paced environment
- High level of attention to detail with the ability to multi-task effectively
- Comfortable working remotely using Zoom, Teams, Slack, Trello, and other tools to communicate with all team members
- High degree of professionalism and ability to maintain confidential information
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- An understanding of baseball is a plus
The Red Sox (or FSM) requires proof of being up-to-date on COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment, subject to applicable legal requirements. Up-to-date means having received all recommended COVID-19 vaccination doses in the primary series and a booster dose(s) when eligible, per CDC guidelines.
Prospective employees will receive consideration without discrimination based on race, religious creed, color, sex, age, national origin, handicap, disability, military/veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or protected genetic information. Job Specification
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