Senior Data Analyst, Baseball Data Platform

Mlb Advanced Media, L.P.•San Francisco, CA

1d•$120,000 - $140,000

About The Position

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 Senior 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.

Requirements

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
Ability and desire to travel at times for baseball events and team meetings
A love of baseball!

Nice To Haves

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

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.