Data Engineer - Atlanta United F.C.

Amb Sports + Entertainment - Atlanta, GA

Full-time

Atlanta, GA

Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

About the position

Atlanta United Football Club is seeking a detail-oriented and collaborative Data Engineer to manage and organize information for the club. This role involves building and maintaining ETL pipelines for efficient data storage and accessibility, assisting in web application maintenance, and collaborating with various departments including Analytics, Scouting, and Sports Science. The position is based in Marietta, Georgia, with minimal domestic travel and occasional international travel opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Providing expertise in data storage structures, data mining, and data cleansing.
• Making data architecture decisions, handling outside vendor data, building and optimizing ETL processes for both internal and external data.
• Ensuring that data is stored in an accessible manner.
• Leading the management and administration of a Microsoft SQL Server database.
• Maintaining Microsoft Azure containers.
• Architecting data storage solutions to efficiently store information in an accessible fashion to help drive down time to insight.
• Helping implement and maintain web applications to enhance research and decision-making across Soccer Operations.
• Creating and following processes to keep data confidential.
• Contributing to the implementation of a comprehensive soccer information database.
• Assist in maintaining and updating package in R.
• Collaborate with Data Scientist on ad-hoc analysis and projects for the Scouting Department and Coaching Staff.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field preferred, or demonstrated experience.
• Experience working with a Cloud solution (Microsoft Azure preferred).
• Experience with SQL / PostgreSQL Databases.
• Experience with Version Control and package management in GitHub.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in Databricks preferred.
• Competence in both Python and R preferred.
• A passion and understanding of soccer.