Data Analyst, Baseball Data Platform

Our Baseball Data Platform team is looking for a Senior Data Analyst. The vision of the Baseball Data Platform team is to capture the story of baseball through its data. As a Data Analyst at MLB, you will fulfill that vision with play-by-play and Statcast tracking data by supporting our customers, tracking and improving data quality, and leveraging data to deliver insights. You will partner closely with world-class software engineers, data scientists, and subject matter experts with the sports’ richest and most robust data at your fingertips.

Responsibilities

• Investigate potential data quality issues both proactively and responsively
• Lead large data initiatives focused on strategic R&D goals, including increasing the scalability of alerting and resolving of outlier data
• Implement high impact process changes with our support team based on internal operations data and logging
• Achieve comprehensive expertise in Baseball Data Platform. This includes knowing the schema, data lineage, and optimal usage patterns of all critical tables (e.g., pitch-by-pitch data, tracking data, weather data, etc.).
• Respond directly to inquiries from MLB clubs, broadcasters, and MLB leadership
• Define and enforce high standards for data documentation, code review, and statistical best practices within the R&D data team
• Build optimized queries and statistical reports/models, as appropriate, to identify and detect trends and present findings to MLB and Club personnel
• Design and produce reports delivering insights
• Collaborate with the Statcast engineering, product, data science, and content teams to produce the next generation of storytelling metrics
• Manage user accounts, permissions, and security protocols across key systems, ensuring compliance and data security standards are met
• Test/validate new data and metrics, and contribute input to their development
• Serve as the team's go-to resource for complex data problems. This involves assisting teammates with debugging inefficient queries, locating obscure data points, and understanding nuanced data definitions.
  
  

Qualifications & Skills

• 2 years of experience with data related to baseball
• Experience communicating professionally in a customer support role with technical and non-technical users
• Critical thinking skills and the ability to apply analytical insights to create positive change
• Self-motivated to seek out previously unidentified problems, resolve, and then scale them
• Highly collaborative in nature and team-oriented
• Proactive communicator with internal and external stakeholders
• Substantive knowledge of SQL or similar database querying experience
• Experience using R and/or Python for data analysis in a professional setting
• Knowledge of data visualization software like Looker or Tableau preferred
• Familiarity with baseball tracking systems, especially Statcast, is preferred
• Familiarity with data pipeline tools and best practices for scheduled processing and ETL/ELT is a plus
• Ability and desire to travel at times for baseball events and team meetings
• A love of baseball!
  
  

Salary Range: $90,000 - $120,000 (Base Salary) Bonus

As a candidate for this position, your salary and related aspects of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, skills, and any other factors MLB considers relevant to the hiring decision. In addition to your salary, MLB believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package for its employees.

Top MLB Perks & Benefits

• Competitive Benefits Package
• Company 401K Contribution
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TV
• Discounts at MLB Store | MLBShop.com
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Onsite/Online Training & Development Programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Pet Insurance
  
  

Why MLB?

Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. Employees love working at MLB because of the culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism. Employees who are most successful at MLB take initiative, know how to identify problems and provide solutions, and always put the Team first. For those ready to step up to the plate and join the major leagues, MLB takes the same approach as teams do with their players: empowering our “workforce athletes” to be at their best by engineering experiences that put employees in the best position to succeed. Major League Baseball is looking for candidates who are passionate about growing America’s pastime to best serve its fans for decades to come.

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