White Sox Baseball Operations Data Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL or Glendale, AZ

Description
The Chicago White Sox seek an experienced Data Engineer to join their baseball operations group. The data engineer will be responsible for building, maintaining, and documenting data pipelines while ensuring availability and accuracy of external and internal data sets. This position will report to the Director of Baseball Analytics.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the software development and analytics teams through research, design, and architectural efforts to build World-class decision support systems.
• Design, manage, and optimize on-premise and cloud database resources.
• Build and monitor ETL pipelines to ingest and clean external data sources while also facilitating the development and availability of internal metrics.

Requirements

• Degree in computer science, engineering, or similar field.
• Knowledge of SQL Server, MySQL, or similar relational database with the ability to write and optimize complex queries and stored procedures.
• Technical proficiency with Python.
• Experience with web development and scripting technologies such as Node and JavaScript.
• Experience working with large datasets in relational format and JSON.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Familiarity with advanced baseball metrics and research.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated high degree of integrity, professionalism, accountability, and discretion.
• Ability to work flexible hours and weekends.

Preferred Qualifications

• Object oriented development experience with Visual Studio and C#.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and other containerization methodologies.
• Experience with parallelization of cloud compute resources with Spark or similar.
• Familiarity with the Machine Learning lifecycle, including experience with MLFlow or similar.

To Apply:
Please review the requirements above and send a resume/cover letter to ApplyAnalytics@chisox.com. Due to the large number of applications, you may not receive a response.

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Player Development Affiliate Intern

Locations: Charlotte, NC — Birmingham, AL — Winston-Salem, NC — Kannapolis, NC — Glendale, AZ

Summary:
The Chicago White Sox are seeking multiple seasonal Player Development Affiliate Interns. This entry level opportunity will provide individuals with a wide range of experiences across professional baseball. These positions will primarily support Minor League coaching staffs at affiliate locations throughout the Minor League season. There will also be opportunity to work on various baseball operations projects depending on skillset.

Program Details:

• Associates will be compensated on an hourly basis and are eligible for over-time. Housing or a housing stiped will be provided.
• The position will take place at one of our 5 affiliate locations: Charlotte (AAA), Birmingham (AA), Winston-Salem (A+), Kannapolis (A), or Glendale (RK).
• All positions will start during Minor League Spring Training and end upon the conclusion of the Minor League season with the potential of extending into Instructional League.
• Candidates must be fully available for the duration of the internship (March 1 — September 30).
• Hours for this position may vary week to week; candidates must be available and prepared to work full time but irregular hours, including nights and weekends.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Directly support players and coaching staff with all day-to-day video and information needs
• Film and chart each game and any early work requests
• Compile advanced scouting reports to be utilized prior to each series
• Manage the setup and operation of all baseball technology
• Travel with the team on all road trips
• Aid in the execution of players development plans
• Complete independent projects as assigned by scouting/analytics/player development/front office staffs

Qualifications:

• Strong communication, organization skills, and eagerness to learn
• Strong knowledge pertaining to information technology including proficiency with all Microsoft Office software
• Knowledge of baseball technologies such as Hawkeye, Motion Capture, TrackMan, Rapsodo, Blast Motion, Motus, etc. is strongly encouraged
• Must have a valid driver’s license and ability to lift and carry up to 50 lbs.
• Ability to work evenings, weekends, or holidays

Additional Skills:

• Prior coaching/playing experience
• Advanced understanding of hitting/pitching biomechanics
• Conversational Spanish
• Video editing skills
• Prior baseball/performance related research. Use of SQL/R/Python languages.

To Apply:
Please email PDJobs@chisox.com with the subject line “PD Affiliate Intern” and include your resume and references.

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