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Developer, Baseball Systems
Analyst, Baseball Analytics
Developer, Baseball Systems
Location: Boston, MA, United States
Status: Full-Time / On-Site
DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW:
Members of the Baseball Systems Team at the Boston Red Sox are focused on designing, building, and refining the software and data pipelines used within Baseball Operations. These tools and applications are an integral part of the decision-making process, are directly integrated in the workflows of all departments within Baseball Operations, and provide an efficient, consistent, and accessible experience when interacting with our internal data sources and applications.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Developer, Baseball Systems position will be a member of the baseball operations software development team, and is responsible for the design, development, and support, of all baseball systems. This individual will work closely with members of baseball operations to understand business requirements that drive the analysis, design, and development of quality baseball systems and solutions. This position is focused heavily on front-end development, and will collaborate closely with colleagues on the software development team and baseball operations personnel from all departments.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Create leading-edge baseball solutions together with the software development team and others on new and existing baseball systems
- Contribute to the design and implementation of the software architecture and embrace a software engineering mindset
- Participate in key phases of the software development process of critical baseball applications, including requirements gathering, analysis, effort estimation, technical investigation, software design and implementation, testing, bug fixing, and quality assurance
- Responsible for the design and development of complex web-based user interfaces, web services, back-end logic, and other aspects of web applications
- Actively participate with other software developers in design reviews, code reviews, and other best practices
- Work closely at times with baseball analysts to design and implement solutions to their data needs
- Respond to and resolve technical problems and issues in a timely manner
- Identify and implement creative solutions for technical challenges
CHARACTERISTICS/QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- 0-2 years of front-end development experience building web applications with frameworks such as Angular or React, and experience developing with Typescript, CSS, HTML, C#, ServiceStack, T-SQL, or similar technologies, is required.
- Experience with relational database design and development in SQL Server, Snowflake, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar technologies, is required.
- Experience building front-end visualizations using D3, chart.js, or similar, is a plus
- Experience developing with cloud technologies from Azure, GCP, or AWS are a plus
- Experience integrating systems and data using third-party APIs and services are a plus
- Ability to work autonomously and as a team in a fast paced environment
- High level of attention to detail with the ability to multi-task effectively
- Comfortable working remotely when required and using Zoom, Teams, Slack, Trello, and other tools to communicate with all team members
- High degree of professionalism and ability to maintain confidential information
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- An understanding of baseball, common terms, and analytic measures, is a plus
At the Boston Red Sox and Fenway Sports Management, we go beyond embracing diversity. We’re committed to living by our values, strengthening our community, and creating a workplace where people genuinely feel like they belong.
Too often, job seekers don’t apply to positions because they don’t meet every qualification. If you love this role and are great at what you do, we encourage you to apply. Your unique skills and experiences might just be what we’ve been looking for.
Prospective employees will receive consideration without discrimination based on race, religious creed, color, sex, age, national origin, handicap, disability, military/veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or protected genetic information.
To Apply:
To apply, please follow this link.
Analyst, Baseball Analytics
Location: Boston, MA, United States
Status: Full-Time / On-Site
DEPARTEMENT OVERVIEW:
Baseball Analytics supports the decision-making processes throughout Baseball Operations, including Player Valuation, Player Development, Major League Strategic Information, and Sports Science. Core responsibilities include predictive modeling, long-term research, report creation, and delivering the output of one’s work in a clear and digestible manner.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Boston Red Sox are seeking an Analyst for the team’s Baseball Analytics department. The role will support all areas of Baseball Operations while working closely with Director of Baseball Analytics, and our team of analysts.
This is an opportunity to work in a fast-paced, intellectually curious environment and to impact player personnel and strategic decision making.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Statistical modeling and quantitative analysis of a variety of data sources, for the purpose of player evaluation, strategic decision-making, decision analysis, etc.
- Effectively present analyses through the use of written reports and data visualization to disseminate insights to members of the Baseball Operations leadership.
- Maintain working expertise of leading-edge analytics, including publicly available research and novel statistical approaches, in order to recommend new or emerging techniques, technologies, models, and algorithms.
- Other projects and related duties as directed by the Director, Baseball Analytics, and other members of Baseball Operations leadership.
CHARACTERISTICS/QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in an analytical field such as statistics, predictive analytics, data science, engineering, applied math, physics, quantitative social sciences, computer science, computer vision, or operations research.
- Masters, PhD, or equivalent experience in one of the aforementioned fields preferred.
- Advanced understanding of statistical methods or machine learning techniques.
- Proficiency with modern database technologies including SQL.
- Demonstrated experience with programming languages (e.g., R or Python).
- Demonstrated ability to communicate technical ideas to non-technical audiences using data visualization.
At the Boston Red Sox and Fenway Sports Management, we go beyond embracing diversity. We’re committed to living by our values, strengthening our community, and creating a workplace where people genuinely feel like they belong.
Too often, job seekers don’t apply to positions because they don’t meet every qualification. If you love this role and are great at what you do, we encourage you to apply. Your unique skills and experiences might just be what we’ve been looking for.
Prospective employees will receive consideration without discrimination based on race, religious creed, color, sex, age, national origin, handicap, disability, military/veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or protected genetic information.
To Apply:
To apply, please follow this link.
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