Job Posting: Cleveland Indians

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July 25, 2011

If you’d like to work for in baseball:

Executive Development Fellow (EDF) – Web Software Development, Baseball Systems
Full job posting and application process can be found online at www.indians.com/jobs.

The primary responsibilities of the EDF are to assist the Software Development staff with designing and supporting web-based applications for the Baseball Department. Through an intensive and structured 12-month immersion program, the EDF will also be exposed to other facets of the Indians business operations and will participate in a comprehensive orientation and mentoring program to enhance professional development.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Work closely with Baseball Operations staff to define business requirements that could be provided through software development.

• Ensure that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with organizational goals and objectives.

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• Implement state of the art web-based user interfaces, including the use of drag-and-drop, asynchronous content loading (Ajax).

• Perform software design, development, and maintenance for custom software applications and interfaces.

• Ensure that written software is supported on mobile devices, including Apple iPad and Android-based tablets.

• Identify and validate solution interfaces, dependencies, and integration points.

• Provide occasional off-hours support during baseball games as scheduled. Maintain knowledge of systems used throughout the ballpark to provide first-line trouble shooting at these times.

• Participate in the organization’s EDF program, including orientation, mentoring, and feedback seminars.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related field.

• Extensive knowledge of one or more web-supported development environments, including but not limited to ASP.NET, Silverlight, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and HTML5.

• Extensive general knowledge and experience with computer system hardware, networks and operating systems.

• Knowledge of Microsoft SQL server and/or Oracle database programming and access methods.

• Broad general understanding of baseball, preferably including knowledge of the baseball industry.

• Working knowledge of best practices for web user interface design and usability.

• Experience with data visualization preferred.





 

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Yirmiyahu
14 years ago

Oh, wait. This isn’t some clever post where you discuss what kind of player Cleveland should acquire at the deadline?

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14 years ago
Reply to  Yirmiyahu

if i can both develop software and play strong defensive middle infield would that make me a stronger applicant?

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