Integration Developer (f/m/d) for Research Data Management

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association creates and imparts knowledge for the society and the environment. It is our goal to make significant contributions to mastering the global challenges of mankind in the fields of energy, mobility, and information. For this, about 9.000 employees of KIT cooperate in a broad range of disciplines in research, academic education, and innovation. We are looking for the Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) as of 15.08.2022 limited to 30.09.2026 for a

Integration Developer (f/m/d)

– for Research Data Management –

The National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) is intended to systematically develop, sustainably secure, and make accessible the data holdings of science and research. It is being established as a networked structure of consortia acting on their own initiative. In NFDI-MatWerk, a reliable digital platform for the materials and nanosciences will be established, enabling the digital representation of materials data and specific metadata. Services for easy storage, sharing, searching and analysis of data and metadata will be developed and made available to researchers. Furthermore, data from scientific groups distributed across Germany will be accessible via a knowledge graph-based infrastructure in such a way that fast and complex search queries and evaluations are possible. In the department "Data Exploitation Methods" of the Steinbuch Centre for Computing, we develop new technologies, data repositories and metadata management for handling research data for the NFDI. Within NFDI-MatWerk you will:

• develop and integrate research data and metadata management software for an innovative research data infrastructure
• cooperate with researchers in the materials sciences and adapt the software to their needs
• create novel approaches to better analyze huge data collections
• participate in teaching (guiding students)
• publish and present your results in journals and at conferences

Personal qualification

• a university degree (Master) mathematics, computer science, natural sciences or technology
• experience in software development in Java, Python or JavaScript
• desirably, you have experience in technical data and metadata management and graphical user interface development
• strategic, creative and goal-oriented thinking skills and a proactive approach to work, which you will bring to a team that works in the same way
• very good communication skills

At SCC, we offer an exciting and varied job within an agile team as well as a wide range of training opportunities, and flexible and family-friendly working time models. For more information about SCC as your new professional home, please visit www.scc.kit.edu. We offer you an attractive and modern workplace with access to the excellent equipment of the KIT, a varied work, a wide range of training opportunities, flexible working time models and a casino/cafeteria. We prefer to balance the number of employees (f/m/d). Therefore we kindly ask female applicants to apply for this job. Recognized severely disabled persons will be preferred if they are equally qualified. Please apply online until 09.08.2022  by using the vacancy number 459/2022 and the reference number 6 to Mr Dominik Meschar, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Human Resources, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany. For further information, please contact Mr Dr. Rainer Stotzka, phone +49 721 608-24738, E-Mail: rainer.stotzka@kit.edu.

You can find further information on the internet: www.kit.edu

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