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Scientific Programmer- Astronomy data warehousing - University of Groningen

No. 26532
Position/Title: Scientific Programmer- Astronomy data warehousing
Institution: University of Groningen

Submit Resumes To:
Attention: O.R.Williams
University of Groningen
Centre for Information Technology
Nettelbosje 1
Groningen, Groningen 9747 AJ
The Netherlands

Tel: +31 50 3639719
FAX: +31 50 3633406

URL1: http://www.rug.nl/target
(TARGET website)
URL2: http://www.rug.nl/cit
(CIT website)
URL3: http://www.astro-wise.org
(Astro-WISE website)

Email Submission Address: o.r.williams@rug.nl
Email Inquiries: o.r.williams@rug.nl

The closing date for receipt of applications: 08/01/2010 (Application date has passed)

Job Description:

The University of Groningen seeks a scientific programmer for the multi-disciplinary e-science project TARGET. TARGET undertakes R&D of massive data handling and information systems for astronomical surveys such as ASTRON's Lofar radio telescope, ESO’s OmegaCAM optical wide-field imager and ESA’s EUCLID mission. Non-astronomical projects include handwritten text recognition and the medical Lifelines project, registering the medical records and genome profiles of 165,000 patients over a 30 year period.

TARGET provides a regional knowledge cluster initiated by the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, the University Computing Center, Artificial Intelligence Department, University Medical Center, ASTRON and various companies (including IBM and Oracle). TARGET connects distributed information systems to storage systems and compute grids ranging from Linux clusters, IBM Blue Gene/P to the European network of EGEE GRID, EURO-VO and Astro-WISE.

TARGET will operate a 10+ Petabyte file system. Current technology includes data reduction pipelines in Python, Oracle databases, advanced web services and workflows. The programmer will be involved in one or more of the existing projects, with the interesting possibility of playing a formative role in new projects .

The successful candidate will have experience in the field of software development in dataflow or information systems connected to imaging sensors or sensor networks. A higher degree would be advantageous. Expertise with object-orientated languages and methodologies are essential. Experience in one of the research fields covered by TARGET is desirable. Experience in any of the following would be advantageous: Python, C, ORACLE, workflows, distributed computing, data visualisation.

Included Benefits:

No benefits information has been provided by the employer.

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