July 22, 2011

BP Unfiltered

Get a Job in Baseball Working for the Cleveland Indians

by Baseball Prospectus

Our old comrade Keith Woolner passes along the following:

Executive Development Fellow (EDF) - Web Software Development, Baseball Systems
Full job posting and application process can be found online at www.indians.com/jobs.

The primary responsibilities of the EDF are to assist the Software Development staff with designing and supporting web-based applications for the Baseball Department.  Through an intensive and structured 12-month immersion program, the EDF will also be exposed to other facets of the Indians business operations and will participate in a comprehensive orientation and mentoring program to enhance professional development.

Responsibilities and Duties:

•       Work closely with Baseball Operations staff to define business requirements that could be provided through software development.

•       Ensure that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with organizational goals and objectives.

•       Implement state of the art web-based user interfaces, including the use of drag-and-drop, asynchronous content loading (Ajax).

•       Perform software design, development, and maintenance for custom software applications and interfaces.

•       Ensure that written software is supported on mobile devices, including Apple iPad and Android-based tablets.

•       Identify and validate solution interfaces, dependencies, and integration points.

•       Provide occasional off-hours support during baseball games as scheduled. Maintain knowledge of systems used throughout the ballpark to provide first-line trouble shooting at these times.

•       Participate in the organization’s EDF program, including orientation, mentoring, and feedback seminars.

Requirements:

•       Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related field.

•       Extensive knowledge of one or more web-supported development environments, including but not limited to ASP.NET, Silverlight, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and HTML5.

•       Extensive general knowledge and experience with computer system hardware, networks and operating systems.

•       Knowledge of Microsoft SQL server and/or Oracle database programming and access methods.

•       Broad general understanding of baseball, preferably including knowledge of the baseball industry.

•       Working knowledge of best practices for web user interface design and usability.

  •       Experience with data visualization preferred.