Atlanta Braves Morning Chop: Ticket$, Paradise, and… Wanna Job?
The crews of Sprint Cup Series driver Kasey Kahne (5) and driver Jimmie Johnson (48) clean up oil from the car of driver Justin Allgaier (51) during the Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports
Wanna Work for the Braves? In a Real Office?
With a hat tip to fangraphs, here’s an interesting job opening posted at atlanta.braves.mlb.com:
Position: Analyst
Reports to: Director of Baseball Operations (Billy Ryan)
The Analyst position will provide systems analyst functions for the Baseball Operations department’s statistical & technology-related initiatives.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
- Oversee the in-house technological efforts associated with the development of Braves’ new internal player evaluation application
- Daily maintenance and continued development of internal applications, including a robust Microsoft SQL Server database
- Development and on-going adjustment of proprietary statistics and systems
- Understand internal baseball processes in order to develop functional requirements (specifications) for outside vendors and application developers—includes requirements, system impact, data flow diagrams special considerations, etc.
- Must have a good understanding of the back-end data structures in order to make sure any front-end Tool/Application changes will meet the needs of Baseball Operations
- Identify and diagnose data quality issues and provide recommendations
- Translate unstructured baseball data into valuable analytical information
- Maintain and expand upon the current Baseball Operations analytical strategy including developing and supporting new reports, dashboards, and data integrations
- Develop and support ETL mappings, procedures, schedules etc. This includes the integration of multiple data sources (internal and key 3rd party external data sources) into a single data repository
- Provide data management expertise to the Baseball Operations team by evaluating requirements and developing solution design proposals
- Troubleshoot and resolve data/ system/application issues
- Discuss technical issues with the software and hardware vendors
- Continue to advance the department’s use of technology and analytics
- Additional duties as assigned by Director of Baseball Operations
The ideal candidate will possess the following:
- BA or BS degree in CS, IS, or an Engineering/Technical Major
- A minimum of 5 years professional experience in a technical role
- Strong knowledge of Data Warehousing, Data Modeling and Reporting
- Experience with creating and understanding SQL concepts
- ETL knowledge is a plus
- Previous experience working with Microsoft products preferred
- Database system knowledge and proficient SQL skills.
- Experience in the use of the Microsoft SQL Server Platform tools (Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services) is a plus.
- Logical and Physical Data modeling experience using data modeling tools.
- Relational and Data Warehousing design and development.
- SQL Server Database Administration skills, including performance and query tuning, debugging.
- Candidate should have strong communication, organization, project management, and problem solving skills.
- Experience architecting KPI’s and Performance Management solutions for Baseball Operations users.
- Strong customer facing skills and ability to manage multiple challenging projects simultaneously
- Ability to interact professionally with all branches of Baseball Operations department in fast-paced environment
- Must successfully pass a criminal and credit background check
Qualified candidates can should submit an application and salary expectations online at www.braves.com/employment.
[ Editor’s note: Sounds like an interesting project, and personally, I’m actually almost qualified for this… but the idea of living in – or anywhere near – Atlanta is almost frightening! Too many other people found it first. ]