Data Analyst, Baseball Data Platform

Job description

Our Baseball Data Platform team is looking for a Senior Data Analyst. The vision of the Baseball Data Platform team is to capture the story of baseball through its data. As a Data Analyst at MLB, you will fulfill that vision with play-by-play and Statcast tracking data by supporting our customers, tracking and improving data quality, and leveraging data to deliver insights. You will partner closely with world-class software engineers, data scientists, and subject matter experts with the sports’ richest and most robust data at your fingertips. Responsibilities: - Investigate potential data quality issues both proactively and responsively - Lead large data initiatives focused on strategic R&D goals, including increasing the scalability of alerting and resolving of outlier data - Implement high impact process changes with our support team based on internal operations data and logging - Achieve comprehensive expertise in Baseball Data Platform. This includes knowing the schema, data lineage, and optimal usage patterns of all critical tables (e.g., pitch-by-pitch data, tracking data, weather data, etc.). - Respond directly to inquiries from MLB clubs, broadcasters, and MLB leadership -...