Baseball Operations: Team Administration/Operations

Lead Developer, Baseball Systems – Kansas City Royals (Kansas City, MO)

Job Summary:

The Kansas City Royals Baseball Club is seeking a highly motivated developer to support baseball operations and lead the development of backend systems as well as oversee the development of tools/applications.  The ideal applicant will be able to manage multiple concurrent projects that facilitate enhanced communications, reporting, and other interactions between teams internal to the organization.

Accountabilities:

• Monitor, maintain, and improve current data operations
  • Manage receipt, storage, merging, and formatting of multiple data sources (flat files, APIs, database pulls, etc.)
  • Administer daily task monitoring to ensure data health, quality insurance, and reliability of systems
  • Develop schema, optimize performance, and manage testing of databases of various sizes
  • Develop, test, and optimize performance and accuracy of scripts used to calculate derived data
  • Automate, manage, and report data lifecycle based on retention and storage requirements
  • Maintain security and other updates
• Investigate and implement solutions for new data sources and organizational needs
  • Design novel storage and schema plans
  • Optimize databases to accommodate new data feeds, models, and reports
  • Automate reports and other tasks that are used on a regular basis
  • Establish APIs to reduce the number of raw queries being run in code
  • Ensure that systems and solutions are in line with organizational objectives

Requirements:

• 4 year degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field or equivalent experience is required
• Ability to work evening, weekend, and holiday hours during the baseball season is a must
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills and ability to interact and work with staff at all levels
• Ability to recognize and maintain confidentiality of work materials and issues as appropriate
• Experience with the following tools, platforms, and business data is required:
  • Four years of experience with Python
  • Significant industry experience working as lead on development teams
  • Strong knowledge of Django, Flask, or similar
  • Advanced management of SQL
  • Administration of UNIX-based servers (Linux, Mac, etc.)
  • Management of multi-tiered deployment environments (development, staging, production, etc.)
  • Multi-threaded/parallel-process applications
• Experience with the following tools, platforms and business data is preferred:
  • Working knowledge of Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, AngularJS/NodeJS, jQuery, Bootstrap, or equivalent technologies
  • Business intelligence is preferred
  • Baseball knowledge and exposure to baseball statistics

Note: When you apply for this job online, you will be required to answer the following questions:

1. Do you have a 4 year degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field?
2. Are you able to work evenings, weekends, and holiday hours?
3. Do you have 4 years experience with Python?
4. Do you have significant industry experience working as a lead on development teams?

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