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Archive and Data Services Engineer
2013-07-18 17:37:10| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Our client is seeking an Archive and Data Services Engineer to join the Data Centre Operations Team in the User Support and Climate Services Division. A key aspect of the role will be to provide requirements, documentation and support which are necessary for the required evolutions of the Archive and the related ondemand data access services. Typical tasks and responsibilities will include to support MTG Programme reviews with the view to assess their impact on the ondemand Data Access System which comprises the EUMETSAT Data Centre Archive and other related ondemand User data services where archived data is provided to support the translation of the MTG Programme user requirements into detail system requirements of the ondemand data access services, to provide support to the MTG Development Programme covering all aspects of the User Support and Climate Services Division, to contribute to the preparation of the MTG Validation and Verification VV activities and commissioning in respect to the data access system this includes validation of Output formats and performance assessments of the system to contribute to the definition and enhancement of the end user interfaces for the ondemand data access services, e.g. data access interfaces, delivery mechanisms, product visualisation, enhance and automate the reporting of the Data Centre usage to provide regular and configurable reports of current and future data holdings, to support the Climate Data Processing and Satellite Intercalibration activities of the Division by extracting relevant and available metadata from the Archive and making them accessible to users via Web Technologies, to represent the User Support and Climate Services Division in relevant meetings and workshops, to liaise with the Format Advisory Group on proposed MTG related delivery formats. All candidates should have experience in the field of Earth Observation EO data or metadata handling, working with Web Technologies e.g. Java GWT, JQuery etc. and hands on experience in shell scripting along with experience in the definition validation of system and user requirements, writing test plans and related documentation for validation of the developed systems for operations and the ability to translate EO Data Access related requirements into detail system requirements. Experience in the following areas would be an advantage Meteorological Climate Research User Community, EO data formats e.g., NetCDF, HDF5, BUFR, etc and visualisation of these formats, OGC standards and Web Map Services Geographical Information Systems, XML technologies for the definition of data format representation, meta data standards, SQL for extracting Database Information, software testing tools, requirements management tool DOORS, skills for presenting proposed concepts, development status, and results. All candidates must have a University or similar degree in a relevant Engineering, Computer Science, or Science and be fluent in English, both spoken and written. Knowledge of French would be an advantage.
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