Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or software engineering., Minimum of 5 years’ experience developing scientific software applications for oceanographic, geophysical, or environmental data., Expertise in Python, R, and Java programming languages., Experience with Oracle Databases and familiarity with marine geology databases is preferred..

Key responsabilities:

Develop a search portal for marine geology data and Seabed Descriptions.

Design and implement applications for data and scientific information management systems.

Create a public-facing web user interface with map capabilities for searching geology data.

Develop the REST API for programmatic discovery of metadata to support the user interface.

Job description

This one-year task will focus on the development of a search portal for marine geology data and National Ocean Service’s (NOS) Seabed Descriptions. The incumbent will design, develop, implement, operate, and maintain applications and services used in data and scientific information management systems for the scientific analysis, documentation, and access to coastal, oceanographic and geophysical data and information. This can include the scientific data pipeline and workflow components within the NCEI data architecture, which can include services to upload and extract data from digital databases, ingest and transform data sources, or analytic tools or products for change detection, monitoring, and quality control.

Requirements

The incumbent will:

Work with data managers to find and understand the data types (Marine Geological data and Seabed Descriptions data), identifying any orphaned data.

Review the current database schema with SME and update where needed, optimizing for searching and best practices for maintaining relational data integrity.