Automation Engineer

Job Title: Automation Engineer, Technology Office

Class: Full-Time

Reports to: Chief Technology & Strategy Officer

Location: Milwaukee, WI - Onsite

The Milwaukee Bucks strive to be the best sports and entertainment company in the world. We are looking for dedicated people who champion innovation, inspire and empower their teammates to perform at a world-class level, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

What We Offer:

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources
• 401K with company match
• Pet Insurance
• 12 weeks of paid time off for parents to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
• Unlimited PTO
• Professional Development through our internal learning & development program – Antler Academy
• Employee Resource Groups
• Milwaukee Bucks and NBA League Discounts
• Company Paid Parking and Phone Allowance 

Summary:

The Automation Engineer shall play a critical role in inducing, designing and realizing advanced business and sports models to advance the Milwaukee Bucks arena office, business office and front office. There are many opportunities across these lines of business to re-invent and transform workflows and processes to achieve positive outcomes with great positive impact. This role will focus primarily on implementing and managing innovative technologies to drive automation, efficiency and cost effectiveness. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) this role with focus primarily on execution of strategy and ideas gleaned from the line of business experts and other enterprises. The Automation Engineer shall be part of the Technology Program Management Office working hand-in-hand with project managers as assigned.

Responsibilities:

• Working jointly with the CTO, project managers, and LOB stakeholders to understand automation, industrial transformation and LEAN opportunities in Continuous Improvement working sessions.
• Through reasoning, deduction and induction define scope, functional requirements and technical requirements leveraging modern and next generation technologies to realize viable business solutions.
• Executing solutions to produce planned outcome leveraging technical skills and vendor partnerships.
• Ability to take proof of concepts to full production implementations. Execute LOB business technology deployment and support life cycle needs. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science or equivalent experience
• 5 years of expertise in software development, APIs and modern IDEs.
• Anthropic Claude experience preferred.
• Python, C, or C++ programming languages preferred.
• Technical and functional collaboration skills across any industrial workflow.
• Experience managing projects and project budgets.
• Expertise in automated data collection and processing leveraging APIs or other means for structured and unstructured data.
• Experience in formal development methodologies such as Agile Framework, Waterfall, and modern AI enhanced IDEs.
• High level of business and technology curiosity and continuous learning.
• Positive self-starter with a good work ethic, ability to meet deadlines, excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, and good attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational and project execution skills, including time management and multitasking.
• Excellent written, verbal and listening communication skills.
• Able to work a flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Ability to travel as needed.

All offers for employment with the Milwaukee Bucks are contingent upon the candidate having successfully completed a criminal background check. We will consider people with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable local, state, and Federal laws.

The Milwaukee Bucks is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, Ethnic Minority/Women/Disabled/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. 

We provide our employees with a robust employee benefits plan that focuses on the mental and physical wellness of our team. We strive to offer a flexible work environment that allows our team members to be productive in both their work and home lives.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.