About BSC
The Barcelona
Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is
the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one
of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, and is a hosting member
of the PRACE European distributed supercomputing infrastructure. The
mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information
technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines
HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational
science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and
currently has over 500 staff from 44 countries.
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Context and Mission of the role:
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de
Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is looking for a Head of Data Management to
join the BSC-CNS's Operations Department. She/he will be in charge of
manage and coordinate the data management services helping users working
in the BSC services data management, data repositories and data
services with workflows. Also, the position will have an important role
in European and national projects to coordinate different tasks and to
cooperate with other centers and work together in EU infrastructures to
reinforce the use of HPC and Big Data around the EU researchers.
Responsibilities:
The main tasks will be:
- Supporting BSC in the definition of a Vision and Strategy around Data Management
- Provide help to researchers in the definition and deployment of their data management plans
- Create and enforce policies for effective data management
- Formulate techniques for quality data collection to ensure adequacy, accuracy and legitimacy of data
- Devise and implement efficient and secure procedures for data handling and analysis
- Establish rules and procedures for data sharing with internal and external stakeholders
- Support others in the daily use of data services and ensure adherence to legal and company standards
- Assist with reports and data extraction when needed
- Monitor and analyze information on data services and evaluate their performance to discover ways of enhancing them
- Ensure digital databases and archives are protected from security breaches and data losses
- Troubleshoot data-related problems and authorize maintenance or modifications in their services
- Definition and implementation of a Data Governance and Organization
- Support about data topics and workflows to researchers within their work field: (Engineering, Chemistry, Biology, ... )
- Participating in European e-infrastructures projects that Operations department participates for instance, EUDAT, PRACE and HBP
- Interact
with System administration group, specifically provide feedback about
data services requirements to have them in consideration for current and
future data infrastructures
- Interact with HPC user support group, specifically for data management and data staging
Qualifications:
Education:
- PhD in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Physics or related discipline
Knowledge and Professional Experience:
- at least 5 years of experience in a similar position
- Experience on data analysis/analytics
- Experience on management of very large data volume
- Experience with porting and optimization of applications on UNIX-based systems
- Experience/Knowledge in working with codes programmed in Fortran, C, MPI, OpenMP, and other parallel methods
- Experience/Knowledge with the use of performance analysis tools, compiler analysis tools, and debuggers
- Experience developing, debugging, maintaining, supporting, and using application software
- A thorough understanding of high performance computing architectures
- Experience in Semantic annotation web
- Experience with non-relation databases
Competences:
- Leadership skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills to be able to work within a team to complete tasks on schedule
- Experience coordinating the work of other parts of the team
- Analytical problem-solving ability
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, high volume, deadline-driven environment
- Team work
- Planning and organizing (Structured mindset)
- Proactive Cooperation (Desire to learn and improve)
- Service Attitude
- Flexibility
Conditions
- Permanent position. Open ended contract
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A competitive salary will be provided, matched to the cost of living in
Barcelona, depending on the value of the candidate (degree and
experience)
Applications Procedure
All applications must be done through the BSC website:
http://www.bsc.es/about-bsc/employment/vacancies
Including:
- Motivation letter and a statement of interest, including two recommendation letters or contacts.
- A full CV including contact details.
Diversity and Equal Opportunity Employment
BSC-CNS
is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected
by applicable state or local law.