Data Engineer

About the role

The New York Mets are seeking a Data Engineer for its Data Engineering Technology team. This role is a unique opportunity to work with data and systems in support of operations in both baseball and the business of baseball. It requires hands-on experience in ingesting, processing, storing, optimizing and distributing structured and unstructured sources of data in areas as diverse as ticketing operations, business strategy, baseball analytics, performance technology and other key areas. You will join a global team (NY and Poland) of data engineering professionals who provide and support best in class end-to-end data and engineering services to Baseball and Business Operations, including but not limited to, Analytics and Systems teams. Prior experience in or knowledge of baseball is a plus but is not required. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Ensure all production data sources are optimally ingested, processed, and distributed to applications, dashboards and users at set frequencies including real time in-game data Onboard new datasets and technologies for use by analysts, data scientists, players and other stakeholders throughout the organization Troubleshoot, communicate, mitigate and solve any data ingestion and/or quality issues to all stakeholders Design, code, test and roll out new datasets, as well as enhance and bug fix existing datasets Support quantitative analysts in Baseball and Business Analytics with production deployments and maintenance of machine learning and other predictive models Build and manage Data Model, Data Domains and Data Catalog to keep data well-organized, accurate and curated for efficient data discovery Deploy and manage data quality solutions (e.g. scalable framework, monitoring dashboard) to ensure accuracy, integrity, and proactive monitoring of information Help maintain a data catalog for efficient data discovery Actively collaborate with global team of Data Engineering/Support professionals on data engineering and support requests/issues Able to work flexible schedule during the baseball season to ensure in-game support for users Coordinate with IT and Infrastructure team to ensure a robust cloud development and production environment