Your responsibilities

As a Data Engineer, you will join the CERNs Business Computing Group (FAP-BC). Here, you will work in a self-organised agile product team and you will be responsible for maintaining, evolving, and re-engineering CERN's administrative information systems, aligned with the group's strategy to modernise, replace, and consolidate legacy architectures and business-critical applications.

More specifically, you will take on the following responsibilities:

• Design, implement and test data pipelines for data ingestion and data transformation across streaming and batch data flows;
• Develop data models and architectures;
• Convert data into relevant datamarts;
• Participate in and lead cross-team technical initiatives;
• Deliver proof of concepts demonstrating product feasibility;
• Maintain and improve group-wide high standards and guidelines of software engineering practices;
• Identify areas of improvement in the technology landscape of the group and recommend solutions;
• Provide user support including analysing user requirements, synthesizing, specifying and following-up on both software- and non-software related issues.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

• Experience with SQL, PL/SQL and Oracle databases;
• Experience with Data warehouse design and architecture principles, patterns, and their application in the data integration ecosystems;
• Experience in the design and development of ETLs built on top industry standards (Pentaho Data Integration - PDI, Airflow and similar);
• Experience with event streaming platforms (Kafka);
• Experience with BI solutions and reporting tools such as Power BI;
• Experience of modern software development life cycle and DevOps processes (incl. build/test/deployment tool chain).

Any of the following experience would be a plus:

• Experience developing and maintaing solutions with R Shiny;
• Experience with large-scale data processing (Spark);
• Experience with modern monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in Computing engineering (or a related field) and have either:
  • a Master's degree with 2 to 6 years of post-graduation professional experience;
  • or a PhD with no more than 3 years of post-graduation professional experience.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.

Job closing date: 31.08.2023 at 12:00 AM (midnight) CET.

Job reference: FAP-BC-PL-2023-102-GRAP

Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Target start date: 01-October-2023

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 6194 and 6808 Swiss Francs per month (net of tax).
• Coverage by CERN's comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Depending on your individual circumstances: installation grant; family, child and infant allowances; payment of travel expenses at the beginning and end of contract.
• 30 days of paid leave per year.
• On-the-job and formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.

About us

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter - fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.

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