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Climate Data Engineer
2015-04-16 18:05:43| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
This is a permanent position, calling for experience of satellite meteorology or oceanography related to climate. You will be placed on assignment based near Frankfurt in Germany for several years. Candidates should ideally be available to start in August 2015. The main working language is English. Our client is responsible for establishing and operating weather forecasting and Earth observation satellite programmes with associated data telemetry and dissemination operations. Vast quantities of data are produced and user communities throughout the world are able to access both current and historical data sets. The role will embrace Development and implementation of operational product reprocessing chains including algorithm processors Software development and implementation of operational functional and product quality monitoring procedures Acquisition of data from internal and external sources to support product quality monitoring Control and execution of operations with respect to both data set generation and evaluation Preparation of data sets for ingestion into a data centre Supporting he validation of products employing quality monitoring procedures and other validation techniques Support to the development and maintenance of operational procedures for data set generation Compilation of technical notes on data set generation issues and relevant data set documentation including validation reports, user guides and format descriptions Compiling results into presentations Attendance at scientific and technical meetings Support to international projects and coordinating organisations The key experience and attributes sought are Basic knowledge in satellite meteorology andor oceanography related to climate Basic knowledge in satellite instrument calibration and intercalibration Experience in measurement uncertainty analysis metrology andor validation of satellite products including climate data records At least five years experience in developing scientific software using languages, such as CC, FORTRAN, and IDL inclusive of object oriented software design Experience in using scripting languages to organise data processing, such as Python, Perl, and Shellscript in operational Unix environments Experience in software build environments and source code control systems e.g. Subversion, Rational ClearCase, CVS Experience in the usage of native and community data formats NetCDF 3 and 4, GRIB, HDF5, and BUFR Experience in large data volume processing in operational processing environments Experience of participation in international projects Knowledge of some of the following would be advantageous Expertise in inversion methods for the retrieval of geophysical parameters Database management systems such as MySQL or others Experience in development of web applications using GWT serverclient framework, Java, JavaScript, HTML and CSS Expertise in formalised software testing such as unit and regression testing. Candidates should possess a University degree in Meteorology or a similar discipline. Fluency in English is essential and some ability with French advantageous. Pactum was established in 1988 and provides space system services and recruitment consultancy to clients throughout the UK and across continental Europe.
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