Geospatial Data Engineer 2

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The Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS) at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science has an exciting full-time opportunity for a Geospatial Data Engineer 2.  We seek a candidate whose technical skills and interests are focused on data management, documentation, and data curation approaches applied to remote sensing and Earth science data systems. Applicants should have experience in data management, particularly in evaluation and integration of heterogeneous data. Applicants should have experience in metadata standards, scientific data formats such as HDF and netCDF, remote sensing, GIS, and data documentation experience. Position is non-remote.

Essential Requirement:

Due to the nature of our work and existing contractual requirements, qualified candidates must be a U.S. citizen and be able to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.

The candidate will:

• Lead the CSTARS data team for curation for all datasets acquired

• Be responsible for continuous optimization of the dataset lifecycle policy, curation workflow and product preservation/retirement

• Be responsible for the execution of day-to-day data curation activities

• Be responsible for planning and execution of key milestones and deliverables

• Be responsible for generating, tracking, validating, and closing out data quality issues

• Work with the CSTARS staff and data providers to track and move datasets through reception and curation.

• Support the Development of processes for efficient effective QA/QC of datasets received

• Provide feedback to team members to enhance the usability of all datasets, including documentation

• Develop and support the preparation of programs, processes, scripts, tutorials to provide seamless access to commercial and public domain data

• Provide scientific and technical support for remote sensing data processing tools and services and usability

This lead Geospatial Data Engineer 2 will primarily involve commercial synthetic aperture radar data, but will also be responsible for acquiring publicly available data from national and international agencies such as NASA, NOAA and ESA.

This position will lead CSTARS data management for oceanographic, atmospheric and hydrological data. Primarily, this will be data derived from space-based remote sensing platforms. The data managed will include airborne (e.g., drones) and in situ platforms (e.g., ships, buoys, HF radar.

This candidate be able to implement open-source methods for data format translation and product generation, subsetting and reprojecting data.

In this primary role, this candidate will be the lead developer and maintainer of software that will be used to import various data sets from a variety of sources to more standardized and interoperable data formats.

Required Skills:

• M.S. in Geography or Oceanography, Information Science, or Earth Sciences, with 4-5 years of experience in a related field

• Demonstrated ability to manage a data from variety of sources and track updates and modification

• Strong experience in building and coordinating the development of dataset documentation for Earth science datasets

• Knowledge and Experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• technologies and software packages and tools

• Proficiency with interpreted data languages for Earth science data, including one or more of the following: Python, MATLAB, R, and/or IDL (Python required)

• Experience with reading, subsetting, interpreting, and utilizing geospatially referenced and structured data for research and applications.

• Proficient with scientific software tools (e.g., R, NCO, HDF library, ArcGIS, and Python)

• Familiarity and experience in metadata standards and conventions

• Excellent data documentation skills, strong interpersonal skills, and working effectively as a team member

• Experience with version control (i.e. GitHub) and agile development practices

• Proficiency working in a UNIX/Linux command-line environment and shell scripting

• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and in a dynamic team environment while dealing with multiple issues, tasks, and priorities concurrently

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

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Job Status:

Full time

Employee Type:

Staff

Pay Grade:

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