To be clear, there are two postings here.

Position: Philadelphia Phillies Senior Quantitative Analyst – Baseball Research & Development

Location: Philadelphia

Description:
As a Senior Quantitative Analyst (QA), you help shape the Phillies Baseball Operations strategies by processing, analyzing, and interpreting large and complex data. You do more than just crunch the numbers; you serve as a lead and mentor to a growing team of analysts. You carefully plan the design of your own studies by asking and answering the right questions, while also providing guidance on statistical methods and techniques to make sure that other analysts can do the same.

Using analytical rigor, you guide your team as you mine through data and identify opportunities for the Phillies to improve. After communicating the results of your studies and experiments to the GM and executive staff, you collaborate with front office executives, scouts, coaches, and trainers to incorporate your findings into Phillies practices. Identifying the challenge is only half the job; you also work to figure out and implement the solution.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct and oversee statistical research projects and the integration of their outputs into our proprietary tools and applications (e.g., performance projections, player valuations, draft assessments, injury analyses, etc.).
• Communicate with front office executives, scouts, coaches, and medical staff to design statistical studies.
• Provide leadership in architecting the storage of baseball data.
• Mentor a team of Baseball R&D QAs, assisting them with their projects and providing guidance on best statistical practices.
• Supervise, provide feedback, and help guide project work conducted by external consultants.
• Assist with the hiring process of new Baseball R&D QAs.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of statistics, including supervised and unsupervised learning, regularization, model assessment and selection, model inference and averaging, ensemble methods, etc.
• Relevant work experience with statistical software (R, S-Plus, SAS, or similar), databases, and scripting languages such as Python.
• Demonstrated willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques.
• Demonstrated leadership and self-direction.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS or PhD in Statistics or related (e.g., mathematics, physics, or ops research) or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience drawing conclusions from data, communicating those conclusions to decision makers, and recommending actions.

To Apply:
Please apply analytics@phillies.com by Oct. 31.

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Position: Philadelphia Phillies Senior Software Engineer – Baseball Research & Development

Location: Philadelphia

Description:
The work of a Senior Software Engineer (SWE) at the Phillies extends well beyond just coding. Senior SWEs not only have the ability to roll up their sleeves and provide technical leadership to major projects but also serve as an architect, lead, and mentor to a growing team of engineers. You not only optimize your own code but ensure that engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Senior SWE, you will manage your projects, influence front office strategy, and help develop your team.

SWEs work across all of Baseball Operations, including the draft, free-agency, player valuation, player development, in-game strategy, and injury prevention. Using your technical expertise as Senior SWE, you design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions that impact decision making at the Phillies.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership in architecting and implementing technical infrastructure for Baseball Operations.
• Collaborate with front office executives, scouts, coaches, and medical staff to create technical/programmatic solutions for Baseball Operations.
• Build new applications from the ground up to be used directly by the GM and executive staff.
• Mentor a team of Baseball R&D SWEs, assisting them with their projects and providing guidance on best practices throughout the development, testing, launching, and iterating phases of their applications.
• Help increase the technical knowledge of the entire Baseball Operations department by providing training, guidance, and support on the use of all applications and tools created by the team.
• Assist with the hiring process of new Baseball R&D SWEs.

Required Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#, Objective C, Python or JavaScript).
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
• Experience working with two or more from the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, mobile application development, big data, machine learning, natural language processing, and data architecture.
• Demonstrated willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques.
• Demonstrated leadership and self-direction.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s, PhD degree, further education or 4+ years experience in engineering, computer science or other technical related field.
• Prior experience managing/leading a technical team.

To Apply:
Please apply analytics@phillies.com by Oct. 31.