About the job
Major League Baseball seeks a Senior Data Analyst for its Baseball Data Platform team in San Francisco. This team blends baseball expertise with technology, working closely with play-by-play and Statcast tracking data. The group supports MLB clubs, broadcasters, and internal partners by ensuring data quality and delivering actionable insights.
Role overview
This position focuses on maintaining high standards for data quality, collaborating with engineers, data scientists, and industry experts. The Senior Data Analyst will address data issues, lead significant projects, and act as a key resource for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Key responsibilities
- Identify and investigate data quality issues, both proactively and in response to reports.
- Lead major data projects to advance research and development, such as improving alerting systems and resolving outliers.
- Collaborate with the support team to implement process changes based on internal operations data.
- Develop deep expertise in the Baseball Data Platform, including schema, data lineage, and best practices for key tables like pitch-by-pitch, tracking, and weather data.
- Handle inquiries from MLB clubs, broadcasters, and leadership, providing direct support and solutions.
- Maintain high standards for data documentation, code review, and statistical practices within the R&D data team.
- Write optimized queries and statistical reports or models to uncover trends and share findings with MLB and Club staff.
- Produce clear, insightful reports and work closely with Statcast engineering, product, data science, and content teams to develop new storytelling metrics.
- Manage user accounts, permissions, and security protocols across core systems to ensure compliance with data security requirements.
- Test and validate new data sets and metrics, supporting their ongoing development.
- Serve as a resource for complex data questions, including query debugging, identifying obscure data points, and clarifying nuanced data definitions for teammates.
Collaboration and impact
This role involves frequent interaction with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and content teams. The Senior Data Analyst helps shape the way baseball data is used across the league, contributing to both operational improvements and new forms of baseball storytelling.
