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Major League Baseball (MLB) · 5 days ago

Senior Data Analyst, Baseball Data Platform

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$120K/yr - $140K/yr

5+ years exp

Major League Baseball (MLB) is seeking a Senior Data Analyst for their Baseball Data Platform team. The role involves improving data quality, delivering insights from play-by-play and Statcast tracking data, and collaborating with various teams to enhance data-driven storytelling.

AssociationBaseballSportsSports Leagues and Teams

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

Qualification

Data analysisSQLBaseball data experienceRPythonData visualization softwareCustomer support communicationProactive communicationData pipeline toolsCritical thinkingCollaboration

Required

5+ 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

Preferred

Knowledge of data visualization software like Looker or Tableau

Familiarity with baseball tracking systems, especially Statcast

Familiarity with data pipeline tools and best practices for scheduled processing and ETL/ELT

Ability and desire to travel at times for baseball events and team meetings

A love of baseball!

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

Company

Major League Baseball (MLB)

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Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic professional sports league in the United States and consists of 30 member clubs in the U.S.

Founded in 2000

New York, New York, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.mlb.com

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