Project SURPRISE - IT Systems Engineer

The HafenCity University Hamburg, University of Architecture and Metropolitan Development (HCU) is a university that focuses on the built environment. The HCU unites all aspects of building and design, engineering, and natural sciences as well as geoscientific and social sciences under one roof.

The position is assigned to the Professorship of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Rainer Noennig.

The professorship for Digital City Science at HCU researches digital technologies for city and metropolitan development and applies them nationally and internationally. The international and interdisciplinary team develops data-based approaches for the analysis and planning of complex urban systems, bringing together expertise from architecture, urban and spatial planning, computer science and media technology. With an extensive partner network, groundbreaking tools are developed that are used in basic research as well as in concrete application projects and taught to students.

The overall aim of the project is to equip selected Ukrainian cities with a comprehensive package of innovative tools and processes based on research in Digital City Science. For sustainable development as well as for resilience and reconstruction planning, digital in-struments for urban data processing will be introduced, demonstrated, and trained. Thus an active support shall be given for the development of socio-spatial and economic plan-ning strategies and processes as required by the current and future legislation in Ukraine. The measure aims to provide digital solutions and infrastructures as well as competence for the analysis and synthesis of spatial data as a prerequisite for holistic and faster plan-ning processes, for the qualification and updating of existing urban concepts, as well as for citizen participation and co-creation. In cooperation with local partners, relevant data will be collected and processed in order to support urban planning, strategy development, and policy making. The corresponding methods and tools will be made accessible to local users and stakeholders in the form of capacity building measures (mentorships, training and edu-cation activities).

In the project, you will focus on building and maintaining a solid IT infrastructure that ena-bles the management, transformation, visualisation and sharing of geospatial data and data information from different sources as well as data preparation for analysis by otherproject and application partners. You will be responsible for creating a system with the necessary components for an ETL process to collect data from different sources and store it in a suitable environment, e.g. MongoDB for unstructured and PostGIS for spa-tial/relational data and for managing CI/CD pipelines. The IT system should be able to communicate with other simulation components and Frontends. Therefore, a solid commu-nication infrastructure is also to be established. This should consist of a GeoServer for providing geodata in accordance with OGC standards and an API (preferably FastAPI) for communicating and processing requests from in-house services and external systems. The system should be provided in a Kubernetes cluster.

Tasks

Specific objectives are

1. Enabling more rapid planning processes due to the usage of innovative digital tools with the capacity to accelerate and qualify the updating of existing planning concepts;
2. Provision of digital solutions that can serve as basic infrastructure for requisite data analysis and synthesis, and also enable new levels of citizen participation and co-creation;
3. Helping the establishment of local spatial data infrastructures in order to counterbalance recent trends towards centralization of planning processes and data in the Ukraine.

Requirements

Mandatory requirements

• a completed academic degree (Master or equivalent) in computer science, systems engieneering or related field
• an academic degree (Bachelor or equivalent) in the above-mentioned subjects and four years of work experince in the relevant work areas of the vacant position
• extensive experience in developing data integration and handling ETL processes for various data types (unstructured, structured, spatial)
• expertise in Python frameworks (e.g. Django, FastAPI or Flask) and solid knowledge of noSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB)

You may also apply, when you have completed your Bachelor degree, but have not yet obtained the necessary four years of work experience. In this case the salary group will be 12 TV-L with the corresponding tasks and responsibilities

Additional requirements

• very solid knowledge of Git and Docker to provide developed solutions within the chair's infrastructure,
• solid knowledge of setting up and managing Kubernetes clusters and maintaining a deployment pipeline via Drone
• experience in identity management / authorization systems (e.g. Keycloak)
• experience in dealing with geodata (PostGIS)
• familiarity with service delivery according to OGC standards (e.g. via GeoServer)

Benefits

• workplace at an attractive location in HafenCity
• varied work in a university environment in cooperation with international scientific partners
• a family-friendly university that supports its employees in balancing work and family life
• support for professional and personal development through a wide range of training and continuing education opportunities
• other benefits, such as discounts in the canteen of the student union, etc.

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Zuletzt aktualisiert am 19.04.2024