Job Title: Data Engineer

Department: Football (Soccer) Research & Development

Reports to: Director, Football (soccer) Research & Development

Status: Full-Time

Location: Blue Crow Sports Group HQ. Houston, TX

Full Job Description
We are seeking several full-time Data Engineers to join Blue Crow Sports Group in
helping sporting organizations make better decisions and drive on-field
performance. As a Data Engineer you’ll be responsible for helping build of our
data platform which will be foundational to our success. In addition to making sure
our data is centralized, unified and accurate, you will be working alongside our Data & Sport
Science team to collaborate on feature engineering and model productionization.

About You

Ability to work in a fast-paced start-up environment
Comfortable learning new technologies on the spot with little guidance
Strives to constantly learn, grow and improve
Passionate about football and well versed in the current state of football analytics
Passionate about building things and helping the team operate at its best
Stickler for accuracy and correctness
Able to drive projects to completion

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Ingest and merge data from multiple internal and external sources
Build and maintain robust, resilient and reliable ETL pipelines
Collaborate with the data science team on feature engineering and model productionization / monitoring
Ensure data is stored in an efficient and accessible manner
Monitor data quality for accuracy and completeness
Reduce / remove roadblocks for the data science team to drive down time to insight
Design, develop and deploy APIs for internal and external consumption

Education and/or Experience and Skills:

Experience working with a cloud solution (Google Cloud, AWS, Oracle, Snowflake, etc)
Familiarity with pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow)
Fluency in Python or similar language
Experience with SQL/PostgreSQL databases
Experience developing and deploying scalable APIs
Familiarity with distributed computing options and large-scale data storage (Spark, Dask)

Other:

This role is based at our Blue Crow Sports Group HQ in Houston, TX
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.