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HBCU Fellowship-Stats Team Development-League (CR)
Summary
Title:HBCU Fellowship-Stats Team Development-League (CR)
ID:1257
Department:Development Team- NBA HBCU
Campaign Start Date:01/16/2023
Location:New York, New York
Description

Job Title: Stats Team Development 
 

Position Summary:

The NBA is looking for a software engineer to join a diverse product development team. You will be a part of the team responsible for the ingestion, storage, processing and data science involving the NBA’s basketball statistics. Our team’s primary goals are to maintain the historical statistical records of the NBA and then use that data to build fan-facing products that engage and educate the NBA’s fans across the world. If you want to join a team of hardworking developers who love cloud architecture and data science as much as they love basketball stats, this is the job for you!

Major Responsibility:

  • Work as a part of a software development team to contribute to current product development projects involving data and basketball statistics ingestion, storage and analysis
  • Contribute to full stack cloud-based development projects that help to build the NBA's next generation of fan-facing products
  • QA new stats-based digital products and features as part of the NBA’s software release cycle.
  • Perform data analysis tasks to support NBA content and broadcast teams.
  • Perform data entry tasks to both correct official NBA data and create additional datasets for Machine Learning projects.
  • Create and automate data reports for other NBA departments.
  • Work with other stakeholders to finalize technical plans and specifications for development projects
  • Contribute ideas for new products powered by our data so that we can better engage our fans

Required Skills/Knowledge:

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Programming experience and/or coursework in Python, C#, .NET, Scala or Java; programming experience with large, commercial applications is a plus
  • Full-stack programming experience with cloud-native applications
  • Experience with ingesting, storing and retrieving data from databases
  • Coursework or practical experience with SQL stored procedures
  • Must be able to work with Visual Studio and GitHub in an Agile development environment
  • Experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, Spark SQL and/or PySpark is a plus
  • Experience with Microsoft Azure is a plus
  • Previous Apache Airflow experience is a plus
  • Practical experience with data analysis techniques including modeling and clustering is a plus
  • Experience crafting data visualizations is a plus
  • Basketball experience is a plus
  • Display an aptitude for taking initiative to go above and beyond
  • Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision
  • Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments
  • Ready and willing to learn from other members of our team
  • Detail oriented with a desire for seeing projects through to completion
  • Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations

Education:

  • Studies in Math, Computer Science or related field

To participate in the HBCU Fellowship Program, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including having received a booster when eligible. Accordingly, your participation in the Program will be contingent upon the submission of verification, in a form required by the Program, evidencing that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, meaning for these purposes that you have completed the two dose regimen of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine or the single dose regimen of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and have received a booster when eligible. We will discuss accommodations to this requirement if you are not vaccinated due to a medical reason; a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance; or any other reason permitted by applicable law

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