Software engineer - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System, https://www.icos-ri.eu) is a European research infrastructure providing scientific data on carbon cycle and greenhouse gas budget. ICOS Carbon Portal (https://www.icos-cp.eu) is an organization designing and building web services for archival and dissemination of these data, including upload, storage, long-term preservation, search, visualization, and download. The Carbon Portal is hosted by Lund University by the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (http://www.nateko.lu.se/). SITES is a Swedish national infrastructure for terrestrial and limnological field research (http://www.fieldsites.se/sv-SE). The Carbon Portal will develop the SITES data portal on the basis of the system developed by ICOS.

Job assignment
ICOS Carbon Portal at Lund University is looking for a creative scientific programmer with interest or experience in advanced semantic web development, making use of open linked data, triple stores and ontologies.

At the Carbon Portal we use the following technologies:

• Front end development: ES6 Javascript, React/Redux, Leaflet, OpenLayers, Bootstrap
• Back end development: Scala/Java, Akka
• Metadata management: RDF, OWL, SPARQL, PostgreSQL/PostGIS
• Deployment environments: CentOS Linux, Docker, JVM, EGI Cloud
• Data storage: Linux file system, EUDAT services
• CMS for ICOS websites: Drupal
• Document management system: Alfresco

The candidate will develop the data portal for the national SITES research infrastructure (http://www.fieldsites.se/en-GB and http://www.fieldsites.se/sv-SE), based on the groundwork done in setting up the ICOS Carbon Portal.  The work will be done in a tight cooperation with the coordinator Swedish Agricultural University SLU.

The candidate will work closely together with our team of currently 5 other programmers and data scientists on the joint open source codebase for the two data portals.

Qualifications

• You have a professional or academic degree and preferably several years of programming experience.
• Experience in the following list of relevant technologies, skills and tools is recommended: unit testing, modern HTML and CSS, Gulp, HTTP protocol, Bash scripting, Linux administration, public key cryptography, maps and GIS, Python, PHP, SQL, working with scientific data, binary data formats.
• Proficient mastery of the English language is required.

Meriting

• Experience in ontologies, RDF, OWL, SparQL and tools like Protégé and MongoDB is highly recommended.
• Affinity to environmental and climate research, and exploration and analysis of complex datasets through visualisations is recommended.