Job Posting Title:

Sports Data Engineer

Req ID:

10108365

Job Description:

The Sports Data Engineer will assume a role within the team as a developer by setting forth a vision for the modernization of its tech stack, helping guide and mentor more junior members of the team, and serving as a key developer across many of the team’s new and existing metrics. This will include gathering, wrangling, and verifying data, creating advanced statistical models, and writing code to execute those models. Candidates need to have a deep understanding of internal analytics metrics and be able to communicate results both internally and externally. The Data Engineer will help the team tell stories in the most engaging and accurate way, matching the storytelling to the medium. Translating the complex into an understandable language is a key requirement of the job.

The Sports Data Engineer will work collaboratively with other members of the Analytics team as well as engage consistently with outside partners, both inside and outside of Disney, in order to advance the team’s goals. This will include exploring technical solutions with partners to better disseminate, organize, and display the team’s data and metrics and helping develop new products to serve this purpose.

ESPN Analytics is a multidisciplinary group where all members have deep knowledge of sports, statistics, databases, coding across multiple languages, and storytelling. Combining best-in-the-industry data with advanced mathematics and statistical modeling skills, ESPN Analytics has created storytelling tools and metrics that have improved the evaluation of team and player performance, such as Total QBR and power ratings for football, basketball, and more. These products make fans better informed and help keep ESPN at the cutting edge of sports statistical analysis.

Responsibilities:

Develop data requirements for new metrics and help establish a technical methodology for production executionWrite optimized, production-quality code to transform data into automated metrics across ESPN platforms and internal research toolsHelp identify the key components in these complex formulas and turn them into language that allows them to be readily used in storytelling across ESPN platformsEngage consistently and thoroughly with external partners around dissemination of the team’s metricsIdentify trends and help the team react to news stories using the tools developed by the teamBe engaged in the larger sports analytics community and be aware of the latest sports statistical analysis research

Qualifications:

A minimum of 3 years’ experience with sports analytics or a bachelors’ degree in a related field of studySome experience with predictive modeling, machine learning, Bayesian statistics, trend analysis, and other data analysis techniquesDemonstrated experience coding with programming languages such as R, Python, and SQLExperience in AWS Cloud managementFull availability for this position, which could include nights, weekends and holidaysDemonstrated ability to ensure accuracy of contentA knowledge of sports statistical analysis in the marketplaceStrong sports knowledge, both historical and current

Preferred Qualifications:

Statistics, engineering, advanced mathematics degreeExperience in the R Programming languageExperience in general data wrangling, database development, and SQL codingExperience with sports bettingExperience writing production-quality code and collaborating via SCMExperience developing cloud computing environmentsExperience turning sports analytics into storylinesExperience in digital and/or television sports productionStrong understanding of sports betting and how betting markets work

Required Education:

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Preferred Education:

Statistics, engineering, advanced mathematics or economics degree strongly preferred

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Job Posting Segment:

ESPN

Job Posting Primary Business:

ESPN Business Development

Primary Job Posting Category:

Business Intelligence Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Bristol, CT, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2025-01-22