Job Posting: Cardinals Openings

The St. Louis Cardinals have two openings in their Baseball Development department for an Analyst and a Developer:

Analyst, Baseball Development

This position is responsible for conducting quantitative research to provide timely recommendations to decision makers within Baseball Operations.

Essential Functions of the Job:

• Conduct empirical research related to baseball strategy and player evaluation
• Work with Baseball Development team to integrate new statistical analyses into existing baseball applications
• Complete ad-hoc database queries and analysis
• Develop and maintain quality assurance processes

Education and Experience Preferred: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computational field, such as Statistics or Mathematics
• Strong understanding of typical baseball data structures and knowledge of current baseball research
• Proficiency with statistical programming environments (for example, R or Python (SciPy))
• Experience with SQL or post-relational databases
• Passion for baseball, strong intellectual curiosity and communication skills

Developer, Baseball Development

This position is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining analytic and technical systems to provide timely, baseball-related information to decision makers within Baseball Operations. 

Essential Functions of the Job:

• Collaborate with baseball operations personnel to define and develop new software applications
• Optimize baseball applications to ensure successful implementation across multiple platforms, including mobile environments
• Identify new technologies and cloud-based solutions to improve capabilities of baseball applications
• Create comprehensive tests and documentation around new features and functionality

Education and Experience Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• Proficiency with REST / JSON APIs and modern server-side frameworks (for example, Rails or node.js)
• Experience with JavaScript and front-end MVC frameworks (such as Backbone.js, AngularJS, or Flux)
• Experience with mobile application development
• Familiarity with SQL
• Passion for baseball, strong intellectual curiosity and communication skills

Interested qualified candidates should specify which job they are applying to and send a resume to ccorrea@cardinals.com by no later than January 25, 2015.