Senior Software Developer Semantics and Data Science at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (Aachen, Deutschland)

Research data is the foundation of scientific discovery and an essential component of societal progress. Establishing the provenance of data and ensuring its re-usability and long-term availability increases the value, transparency and visibility of research. That is the mission of the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC): the goal of this association-wide platform is to develop and establish novel concepts, services and workflows that allow to enrich complex and heterogeneous research data with metadata in the different phases of their creation. This will make our research data FAIR and generally usable, thus securing its value in the long term, e.g. for use in areas of Big Data Analytics and data mining using artificial intelligence. The Institute for Advanced Simulations – Materials Data Science and Informatics (IAS-9) – will be the HMC Host-Lab at the Jülich Research Center. In this multidisciplinary group activities span from the investigation of material properties by means of numerical simulations and theoretical approaches, over general data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence to the development of methods in research data management and metadata handling. The IAS-9 will host a team of HMC software developers who will operate at the interface of scientific data analysis and research data management. In close collaboration with the HMC Hub Information, they will develop strategies and tools such as web-services and databases that aim at improving the collection of controlled and structured metadata in everyday scientific workflows of the Helmholtz scientific community.

We are looking to recruit a

Senior Software Developer – Semantics and Data Science

Your Job:

Support our newly established subinstitute IAS-9 in setting up and implementing our software development activities. You will work closely with software developers and data scientists in IAS-9, the HMC Hub Information, as well as scientists in the Information research focus area. Your tasks will include:

• Support of the establishment and coordination of software development activities at the IAS-9 and related activities inside HMC
• Establishment of metadata-services in close exchange with researchers and other developers in the research domain information
• Development and adaption of tools for the modelling and visualization of terminologies, metadata-standards and ontologies
• Data description and integration using knowledge graphs
• Integration of www data sources (repositories, databases, and data warehouses) by means of semantic web technology
• Dissemination of the tools and concepts developed within HMC
• Support of training activities
• Supervision of student projects and BSc / MSc theses

Your Profile:

• University degree (Master, Diploma) or similar in information / data / computer science, PhD degree in a relevant scientific domain is beneficial
• Excellent and proven knowledge of relevant programming languages
• Practical knowledge of semantic webservices
• Knowledge of metadata standards and well-established databases is beneficial
• Excellent communication and writing skills in English
• Willingness to support scientists with respect to metadata and research data management
• Ability to think in an analytical and abstract way
• Readiness to work in an international and multidisciplinary team environment where developments are driven in a cooperative and team-oriented fashion
• Willingness to travel (e.g. business trips to meetings or conferences)

Our Offer:

We work on the very latest issues that impact our society and are offering you the chance to actively help in shaping the change! We support you in your work with:

• Secure employment in a dynamic, international and interdisciplinary context
• Comprehensive training courses and individual opportunities for personal and professional further development
• A dynamic, creative environment, an open-minded culture of innovation, in which lifelong learning in dealing with one of the great challenges of science is not a foreign word but a claim – Our goal is to make a difference together
• Flexible working hours and various opportunities to reconcile work and private life such as the option of slightly reduced working hours and 30 days of annual leave
• Targeted services for international employees, e.g. through our International Advisory Service

We offer you an exciting and varied role. The position is initially for a fixed term of 3 years. Salary and social benefits are in conformity with the provisions of the Collective Agreement for the Civil Service (TVöD). Depending on the applicant’s qualifications and the precise nature of the tasks, salary grade 13–14 TVöD-Bund will apply.

Place of employment: Aachen

Forschungszentrum Jülich promotes equal opportunities and diversity in its employment relations. We also welcome applications from disabled persons.

We look forward to receiving your application until 31.05.2021 via our Online Recruitment System!

Questions about the vacancy?

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