Senior Data Engineer (Wizards)
Washington Wizards / Monumental Sports & Entertainment · Washington, D.C., USA
- Organisation
- Washington Wizards / Monumental Sports & Entertainment
- Location
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Department
- data_science
- Contract
- full-time
- Level
- senior
- Salary
- $150k - $190k USD
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
Overview
The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for architecting, building, and maintaining data infrastructure in a greenfield stack. This position will design and architect data infrastructure to handle large datasets with varying data including basketball statistical data from the NBA and other leagues, video data, body pose tracking data, basketball qualitative data (e.g. scouting reports), and health and performance data. These datasets will be used by research analysts and data scientists to perform basketball data analysis, as well as by software developers for web and mobile applications.
Responsibilities
["Architect the data engineering infrastructure to be performant, reliable, and scalable.","Lead data engineering efforts, including making decisions on technologies, providers, database design, partitioning and indexing strategies, and software patterns.","Create and maintain data pipelines to ingest, validate, and organize critical data using orchestration tools (e.g. Prefect).","Optimize pipelines and data storage to handle large datasets.","Build thorough data validation procedures to ensure data is of the highest quality.","Implement medallion architectures to organize data structure and provide data lineage.","Work with key cross-department team members (front office executives, coaches, scouts, salary cap strategists, medical/performance directors, etc.) to build products, implement feedback, and efficiently fix bugs.","Maintain knowledge of emerging technologies like generative AI and make decisions on how to use them.","Other duties as assigned."]
Requirements
["5+ years of professional software development experience.","Strong proficiency with a variety of transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) databases.","Sophisticated knowledge of Python and SQL.","Experience with data engineering frameworks such as Prefect, DBT, etc.","Experience with open-source backend frameworks such as Rails, Django, Next.js, etc.","Diverse set of infrastructure experience with both PaaS and IaaS platforms and the ability to dynamically recommend infrastructure stacks and manage associated budgets.","Experience with Docker.","Experience working with large datasets.","Ability to effectively prioritize tasks and manage time efficiently.","High integrity; dependable and comfortable with confidential information.","Ability to work effectively with peers.","Experience with AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, or another cloud service.","Familiarity with agile development frameworks.","Flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed."]
Preferred
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Benefits
["Eligible to participate in health and welfare benefits."]
About the organisation
Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) is one of the leading integrated sports and entertainment companies globally. MSE’s portfolio spans premier professional sports teams, world-class venues, and next-generation media properties, with marquee assets including the NHL’s Washington Capitals, NBA’s Washington Wizards, WNBA’s Washington Mystics, NBA G League’s Capital City Go-Go, Capital One Arena, and Monumental Sports Network, along with an investment in Team Liquid. Rooted in the nation’s capital, MSE brings Washington, D.C's distinct influence, ambition, and leadership to the global sports and entertainment landscape.