Job Posting: Detroit Tigers Baseball Operations Data Engineer
Position: Data Engineer, Baseball Operations
Location: Detroit, MI
Job Description:
The Data Engineer, Baseball Operations will be responsible for working closely with the Analytics team to maintain the data infrastructure supporting internal baseball systems, reports, and procedures.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, maintain, and support data warehouses for reporting and analytics within Baseball Operations.
- Automate and optimize data workflows and pipelines.
- Document, troubleshoot, and resolve issues with Baseball Operations data processes.
- Understand and document data structures, format, definitions, and content of internal and external data feeds.
- Develop data quality assurance tools to ensure data integrity and system performance.
- Collaborate with other members of the Baseball Operations team to develop best practices for storing and retrieving baseball data.
- Recommend new tools and techniques for collecting and processing data.
- Complete ad-hoc database queries and analysis as directed.
Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- 3+ years of related work experience with data management and infrastructure.
- Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field.
- Strong passion for baseball and robust understanding of current baseball research.
- Expertise with SQL and relational database concepts and design.
- Experience ingesting and transforming data from a variety of sources and formats.
- Experience with at least one programming language such as C#, Java, Python, or similar.
- Experience with R, Shiny, Plotly, or ggplot is a plus.
- Ability to communicate complex concepts to colleagues possessing a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives.
- Willing and able to relocate to Detroit.
To Apply:
To apply, please complete the application found here.
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Meg is the editor-in-chief of FanGraphs and the co-host of Effectively Wild. Prior to joining FanGraphs, her work appeared at Baseball Prospectus, Lookout Landing, and Just A Bit Outside. You can follow her on Bluesky @megrowler.fangraphs.com.
Thank you so much Meg! This is my dream job! I just applied.
I had a very negative experience applying and interviewing with the Tigers earlier this year from a Fangraphs internship posting, and thus recommend applicants to consider applying to other teams. (Not sure if this is the appropriate place for this, so feel free to remove if it crosses lines. But I want to let other people know and this seems like the best / most public place to do so, given that there’s no Glassdoor for sports teams or forums for recruiting for baseball jobs as there are for other industries like tech, consulting and finance. Happy to provide more info, publicly or privately, if that’d be helpful.)
What was negative about the experience?
Seems like an unusual thing to post without giving any details whatsoever.