Data Science & Information Management Specialist

We currently have a vacancy for a Data Science & Information Management Specialist fluent in English, to offer his/her services as an expert who will be based in Belgium. The work will be carried out either in the company’s premises or on-site at customer premises. In the context of the first assignment, the successful candidate will be integrated with the Development team of the company that will closely cooperate with a major client’s IT team on site.

Your tasks

• Provide expert advice on defining policies and strategies for content, records, archives and information management, including capture, selection, retention and digital preservation;
• Contribute to the definition and implementation of metadata standards for content and records management, including archival description;
• Implement data publication and exchange solutions by exploiting potential advantages of linked open data and semantic web technologies;
• Conduct advanced statistical analysis of large-scale educational and social datasets to produce results suitable for publication and dissemination;
• Produce data-driven reports and visualizations to inform education and social policy;
• Perform integration and analysis of survey and administrative data across different domains;
• Design and implement reproducible workflows for data processing and documentation;
• Evaluate the effectiveness of policies and programs using quantitative data analysis;
• Interact with IT units to define and clarify the characteristics, structure, and requirements of data sources and systems.

Requirements

• University degree in IT combined with relevant IT professional experience of 9 years;
• Minimum 5 years of specific expertise in MS Office tools (Word, PowerPoint, Excel etc);
• Minimum 5 years of specific expertise in statistical computing using R or other reproducible research tools;
• Experience in implementation or support of large-scale, multi-user data systems for international education and social science assessments (e.g., PISA, TIMSS, ICILS, ICCS), with a focus on metadata structuring and data quality assurance;
• Practical experience in information management and metadata management, including the use of open data technologies, reproducible documentation tools (e.g. R Markdown, Jupyter Notebooks, Quarto);
• Proficiency in designing and implementing reproducible workflows for statistical analysis, using open science tools and standards;
• Advanced use of statistical programming tools (e.g. STATA, SPSS, Matlab, SAS) and open-source platforms for data analysis, workflow automation, and documentation (e.g. R, Python, Apache Airflow);
• Excellent knowledge of Windows-based user environments;
• Good knowledge of agile methodologies in collaborative research and policy development projects;
• Excellent command of the English language.

Benefits

If you are seeking a career in an exciting and dynamic company, where you will offer your services as part of a team of a major European Institution, operating in an international, multilingual and multicultural environment where you can expect real chances to make a difference, please send us your detailed CV in English, quoting reference: (18587/04/25).

We offer a competitive remuneration (either on contract basis or remuneration with full benefits package), based on qualifications and experience. All applications will be treated as confidential.

You may also consider all our other open vacancies by visiting the career section of our web site (www.eurodyn.com) and follow us on Twitter (@EURODYN_Careers) and LinkedIn.

EUROPEAN DYNAMICS (www.eurodyn.com)is a leading Software, Information and Communication Technologies company, operating internationally (Athens, Brussels, Luxembourg, Copenhagen, Stockholm, London, Nicosia, Hong-Kong, Valetta, etc). The company employs over 1000 engineers, IT experts and consultants (around 3% PhD, 36% MSc and 53% BSc or equivalent). We design and develop software applications using state-of-the-art technology. The group generates annual revenues in the range of EURO 40 million, with an EBITDA in the range of 20%. The value of our contract portfolio exceeds EURO 250 million. EUROPEAN DYNAMICS is a renowned supplier of IT services to government institutions, multinational corporations, public administrations and multinational companies, research and academic institutes.

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, we are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.

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