Data Engineer

h3Data Engineer Developer Digital Twin Ocean /h3pVLIZ
- Flanders Marine Institute /ppOstend, Belgium /ppYou will contribute to the development of a modern, interoperable and cloud-based digital ocean infrastructure, with a focus on onboarding datasets, services, models and applications, by developing pipelines that make those efficiently usable in cloud environments. /ph3YOUR TASKS /h3ulliYou contribute to the technical development and operation of the European Digital Twin of the Ocean (EDITO) infrastructure and related projects; /liliYou drive and support the onboarding process of datasets, data services, models and applications onto EDITO in collaboration with data specialists and researchers; /liliYou investigate and implement suitable cloud-optimised formats and access mechanisms for diverse types of marine data; /liliYou develop scalable and reliable ETL data pipelines; /liliYou develop and integrate APIs that make datasets and services machine readable; /liliYou contribute to metadata management, data discovery and cataloguing solutions; /liliYou work with object storage, data lakes and cloud-native access patterns for large scientific and geospatial datasets; /liliYou implement open standards and contribute to FAIR and open-data principles; /liliYou contribute code, documentation, technical guidelines and reusable onboarding procedures; /liliYou participate in European projects and technical working groups and represent VLIZ in relevant international technical meetings and workshops; /liliYou proactively build expertise in emerging technologies relevant to cloud-native data infrastructures, Digital Twins, geospatial data and distributed scientific computing. /li /ulpFor each function, VLIZ considers enthusiastic involvement, service minded, excellent professionalism and integrity as important characteristics. /ph3YOUR PROFILE /h3ulliYou hold a degree in computer science, informatics or engineering, or you can demonstrate equivalent via relevant experience; /liliYou have experience in software development, data engineering, geospatial technologies or system integration; /liliYou are comfortable working with one or more programming or scripting languages (i.e. Python); /liliYou have experience working with APIs and understand modern web-based and machine-tomachine integration patterns; /liliYou have practical experience with data transforming workflows and structured scientific or geospatial datasets; /liliYou have experience with modern collaborative software development tools and practices (i.e. Git); /liliExperience with STAC, OGC standards, NetCDF, GeoJSON, GeoParquet, Zarr or related technologies is an asset; /liliExperience with Docker, Kubernetes or other container orchestration technologies applications is an asset; /liliExperience with cloud environments, S3 object storage or data lake architectures is an asset; /liliKnowledge of CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring and operational service management is an asset; /liliYou are able to independently investigate technical problems, compare viable solutions and translate your findings into practical implementations; /liliYou enjoy working across the boundaries of software development, data engineering, and infrastructure; /liliYou can document technical solutions clearly and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues; /liliYou can write fluently and communicate clearly in English; /liliYou enjoy collaborating within multidisciplinary and international teams. /li /ul