Data Scientist focusing on Research & Innovation data

at  Syddansk Universitet

Do you know how to analyze complex data and deploy web applications?
Do Django and PostgreSQL have no secrets for you?
Are you motivated to use your data skills to support the research & innovation communities?
If yes, the Research & Innovation Organization opens 1-2 positions at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) to work as data scientist in a stimulating working environment with a strong entrepreneurial mindset.

DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK AND TEAM

The positions belong to the ‘Research Support’ team of the Research & Innovation Organization (SDU RIO), a university-central research support unit. This team supports the development, grant application and implementation of international research projects. The team has worked with advanced data analysis and AI-tools for several years and developed web applications and AI-assisted support concepts for research support
The current positions are open to work on European projects that analyse large datasets to help coordinate and support activities to achieve the objectives of the EU Mission ‘Restore our Oceans and Waters’. In this context, SDU RIO is developing data-driven tools for effective knowledge management and transfer of knowledge to end-users in support of the Mission.
The positions offered are multi-faceted. Hard skills are required since tasks relate to the entire data science lifecycle, although with a special focus on data collection and the design and deployment of web applications. Chosen candidates will become core members of a team of data tool developers at SDU RIO, but also central players in a Europe-wide project consortia. Soft skills are also needed to understand the research and innovation ecosystem around the EU Mission Ocean, to interact with relevant stakeholders in the areas of policy and governance, research and innovation, and citizen science, as well as to respond to developments in the EU research funding and policy landscape.
Employed candidates are expected to perform both as individual data science experts and as team members. Sometimes, demanding tasks or deadlines may be faced, and the work may be partly remote from other team members; employed candidates are therefore expected to have excellent time management skills and to be self-driven. You are, however, never alone and can rely on your close colleagues.

MAIN WORKING ASSIGNMENTS AND SKILLS

Performance of the job requires that you can:

• Understand end-user needs and help to co-design customized solutions
• Design service architectures to support data sourcing, curation, and dissemination through a set of advanced web research tools
• Perform efficient, large scale data ingestion, munging, and storage
• Instrument, debug, and optimize container-based services for performance and stability
• Create and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Maintain robust and clear documentation

• Participate in code reviews, system designs, implementation decisions, performance optimization, and overall best practicesContinue learning and sharing current and emerging web, database, online services, and other relevant technology trends.

APPLICANT’S PROFILE

We are looking for applicants who are preferentially:

• Passionate about applying data skills to deliver powerful insights from analysing complex data
• Skilled data scientists with strong experience in Python, data cleaning, data analysis and text mining
• Robust web developers with strong experience in relational databases (such as PostgreSQL) and with understanding of internet architectures and protocols, as well as cloud services (such as Azure)
• Experienced with Python web framework (such as Django or similar)
• Experienced in deploying web applications on CI/CD, code version control system like Git, and familiar with big data workflows and tools, as well as data visualization tools
• Experienced in natural language processing and semantic web technologies such as ontologies
• Interested in research & innovation knowledge pathways from creation to exploitation, supporting research & innovation communities to help them to tackle global challenges
• Both proactive and self-driven - as well as team-oriented with a collaborative mindset
• Strong communicators able to communicate complex issues to different audiences
• Fluent in spoken and written English (the working language is English)
• Holder of a master’s degree within the natural or engineering sciences.

More specific data scientist skills which are favorable for a candidacy can be found below.

PREFERRED DATA SCIENTIST SKILLS

• Qualitative Methods and Scientific Perspectives
• Problem-based project work
• Quantitative methods
• Data Treatment
• Anthropological Fieldwork
• Project planning
• Organization and Management
• Introduction to Data Processing
• IT Security, IT Ethics & Privacy
• Statistics
• Introduction to Human Informatics
• Data Mining and Machine Learning
• Multivariate Statistical Analysis
• Database Systems
• Applied Machine Learning
• Visualization
• Deep Learning
• Data Driven applications
• The Quality of Data from Social Encounters
• Thick Data AnalysisEthics and Design

DEVOPS & WEB DEVELOPPER SKILLS

• Azure DevOps
• Azure Pipelines
• Azure Container Apps
• Azure Container Registry
• Azure Communication Services
• having a general knowledge of Linux distributions.
• Being comfortable in the Docker ecosystem
• bash scripting
• Building and managing REST API’s
• NextJS
• TailwindCSS

Please refer the Job description for details