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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Cloud Data Engineer - **Company:** Detroit Tigers, Inc. - **Location:** Detroit, MI, United States (Remote available) - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Airflow, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Database, Cloud Storage, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Warehousing, DevOps, Issue Tracking Systems, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Regression Testing, Cloud Services, SQL Databases, Management of Software Versions, Apache Spark, Data Strategy, Machine Learning Operations, Software Version Control, Data Pipelines, Databricks - **Published:** May 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=bb65c2bedee3ee63 ## About the Role * Proficiency building data processing pipelines using SQL and Python. * Experience with cloud computing, cloud storage, and cloud services. * Experience with cloud-based data lakes, data warehouses, and related tooling. * Strong understanding of data strategies and practices, such as continuous integration, regression testing, and versioning. * Experience building, maintaining, and querying SQL data warehouses built for data science and analytics. * Familiarity with MLOps concepts and tooling, including model serving, monitoring, and pipeline orchestration. Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Understanding of data quality frameworks and best practices for implementation. * Familiarity with baseball and with current baseball research. * Experience using Apache Spark (Databricks on Azure preferred). * Experience with Airflow or similar workflow orchestration tools. * Effective communication skills with an ability to explain technical concepts to developers and business partners. * Experience with DevOps and MLOps practices for CI/CD pipelines, including model versioning and experiment tracking. * Experience working with containers and container deployment, including containerized model serving. * Familiarity with open-source data quality frameworks. ## Description Job Summary: The Detroit Tigers are seeking a Cloud Data Engineer, Baseball Systems. This role will be responsible for designing, managing, and automating data processes across our data architecture to support Baseball Operations initiatives, including the deployment and operationalization of machine learning models. This position will report to the Manager, Baseball Systems Data., * Design, implement, and maintain our data architecture and processing pipelines at scale. * Design, implement, and use data quality assurance frameworks to support the process of identifying inconsistent data patterns. * Collaborate with Tigers data engineers and data scientists to implement good data hygiene practices and procedures in our data processes. * Work with external data vendors to triage and remedy data quality issues. * Automate and execute test cases in data pipelines and manage data issue tracking. * Build and maintain MLOps infrastructure to support the deployment, monitoring, and retraining of machine learning models in production. * Partner with data scientists to productionize models, ensuring reproducibility, scalability, and reliability across the ML lifecycle. ## Related Videos - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Cutting LLM Costs Without Cutting Quality: How to Beat Proprietary LLMs with Fine-Tuned Open Source](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100151-cutting-llm-costs-without-cutting-quality-how-to-beat-proprietary-llms-with-fine-tuned-open-source) - [Enjoying SQL data pipelines with dbt](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/823-enjoying-sql-data-pipelines-with-dbt) - [OLTP in the Lakehouse: Redefining Data for AI Workloads](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2038-oltp-in-the-lakehouse-redefining-data-for-ai-workloads) - [Modern Data Architectures need Software Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1030-modern-data-architectures-need-software-engineering) ## Related Articles - [Making Data Warehouses Fast: A Developer’s Story](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/107-making-data-warehouses-fast-a-developer-s-story) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [MLops – Deploying, Maintaining And Evolving Machine Learning Models in Production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/115-mlops-deploying-maintaining-and-evolving-machine-learning-models-in-production) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Top Big Data Technologies That You Need to Know](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/108-top-big-data-technologies-that-you-need-to-know) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers)