Postdoc Data engineer FIRMBACKBONE

The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam School of Business and Economics is seeking an all-round data scientist for 1 FTE for a period up to March 2025 in the project

FIRMBACKBONE

(FBB). The project team of researchers consists of Prof. dr. Wolter Hassink (UU/USE), Prof. dr. Arjen van Witteloostuijn (VU/SBE), Prof. dr. Daniel Oberski (UU/FSW), dr. Peter Gerbrands (UU/USE) and Rutger Schilpzand, MSc LLM (UU/USE).

Location: AMSTERDAM
FTE: 1 

Job description

The FIRMBACKBONE (FBB) team is seeking for a person with a master's degree or higher with a strong technical background in data science or computer science and the ambition to work with larger volumes of structured and unstructured data. The candidate will be part of the team that aims to fulfil its prestigious ambition to provide access to protected data while following the principles of open science.

The goal of FBB is to build an organically growing, longitudinal data
infrastructure with information about Dutch companies for scientific research and
education. The digitization of society and our economy has enabled new methods of
collecting and analyzing data from companies. Such digital data is both detailed (i.e.
deep) and long (i.e. over time) in size and it offers great potential for creating new
economic insights and applications. 

Your duties

• Setting up system and data security within a bigdata environment
• Deploying the environment within the Kubernetes platform
• Organizing and implementing efficient user access management
• Onboarding new datasets and make them accessible for researchers
• Extracting and supplementing metadata form available data sources

Requirements

• A Master degree related to Computer Science, artificial intelligence or another related field
• knowledge of and experience of Linux, Java and Python. 
• Working knowledge on Kubernetes, especially on networking within Kubernetes is a plus
• Knowledge of other security and authentication protocols, susch as SSO and SSL is a plus

What are we offering?

A challenging position in a socially involved organization. On full-time basis the remuneration amounts to a minimum gross monthly salary of €3,226 (scale 10)

and a maximum €5,090 (scale 10), depending on your education and experience. The job profile: is based on the university job ranking system and is vacant for at least 1 FTE.

The initial employment contract will affect a period of 12 months.
Additionally, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam offers excellent fringe benefits and various schemes and regulations to promote a good work/life balance, such as:

• a maximum of 41 days of annual leave based on full-time employment
• 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus
• solid pension scheme (ABP)
• contribution to commuting expenses

FIRMBACKBONE is a PDI-SSH funded initiative that is creating an organically growing longitudinal platform with information on Dutch companies.

About Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

The ambition of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is clear: to contribute to a better world through outstanding education and ground-breaking research. We strive to be a university where personal development and commitment to society play a leading role. A university where people from different disciplines and backgrounds collaborate to achieve innovations and to generate new knowledge. Our teaching and research encompass the entire spectrum of academic endeavor – from the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences through to the life sciences and the medical sciences.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is home to more than 31,000 students. We employ over 5,000 individuals. The VU campus is easily accessible and located in the heart of Amsterdam’s Zuidas district, a truly inspiring environment for teaching and research.

Diversity
We are an inclusive university community. Diversity is one of our most important values. We believe that engaging in international activities and welcoming students and staff from a wide variety of backgrounds enhances the quality of our education and research. We are always looking for people who can enrich our world with their own unique perspectives and experiences.

School of Business and Economics
The School of Business and Economics (SBE) provides high-quality education and excellent research in business administration and economics with a focus on contributing to the social, economic and ecological challenges of our time. Whether it is the use of robots in society or big data, labour market participation or flexibility in the labour market, traffic jams or the housing market, flash crashes in the stock market or choice behaviour in gambling, leadership or change management: we believe in goal-oriented scientific research and understand that progress in academics, the business community and society is achieved through cooperation, openness and social responsibility.

At SBE, all of our highly-motivated colleagues work together closely in a stimulating, dynamic and international environment to achieve our collective goal of encouraging society to make informed choices. Approximately 7,000 Bachelor’s and Master’s students and 1,700 executive students are enrolled at the School, and employs roughly 600 people.

Application

Are you interested in this position? Please apply via the application button and upload your curriculum vitae and cover letter until

28/01/2024

. 

Submitting a diploma is part of the application process.

Applications received by e-mail will not be processed.

Vacancy questions
If you have any questions regarding this vacancy, you may contact:

Name: Prof. dr. Arjen van Witteloostuijn
Position: Dean
E-mail: [email protected]

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