Package Description
Joining Serco Italy’s amazing team offers:
- Competitive Salary
- Great career opportunities in the Space industry
- Corporate Benefits Package
- Support provided to EU Nationals requiring relocation – Information available upon request
- Company events
- International environment
Job Introduction
At Serco, we strive to promote and enable the diversity, development, wellbeing and safety of our people. We understand that healthier, happier employees go hand-in-hand with strong business performance, enhanced productivity and better outcomes for those we serve. We want everybody who works for Serco to have a positive experience and access to opportunities to develop in their chosen careers.
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission's science and knowledge service which employs scientists to carry out research in order to provide independent scientific advice and support to EU policy. As subcontractor, Serco Italia S.p.A. is currently looking for a Earth Observation Data Analysis, Image Processing and Software Development Expert to join our great team in Ispra (VA)!
Does working in a Serco environment sound appealing to you?
We would love to hear from you and your interest in this new job opportunity!
Does this vacancy not suit your profile? Not to worry, you can send your updated CV to careers.italy@serco.com – a member of our Recruitment Team will come back to you shortly after.
Main Responsibilities
As a Data Scientist (Statistical Softwares) you will be responsible for:
- Assistance for the development of DARS-CC statistical applications,
including programming of Linux scripts for their integration in production
environments - Transfer of the “mature” anti-fraud applications to the secured IT
environment of OLAF and related services (TAXUD, BUDG) - Assistance to the specification and design of presentation interfaces with
optimal usability/user experience. Primarily, the creation of a visualization
platform based on Tableau, capable to operate with a number of statistical
engines, including R, MATLAB and SAS - Integration of the visualization platform with the existing visualization and
information retrieval systems (THESEUS, Contraffic, Adamas, Web-
ARIADNE and ATHENA) - Advice and consulting on further needed development of the project
infrastructure - Architectural design for the integration of the software applications in order to
obtain environments where components are well configured to work together - Definition and implementation of the backup strategies
- Assistance for the management of Linux servers and all IT resources
- Assistance to the development, packaging and configuration of FSDA
toolbox (extension of MATLAB and statistics toolbox to support a robust and
efficient analysis of complex data sets) in view to its distribution to
academic/research users - Support to a benchmark study for a set of critical computationally
intensive FSDA functions (this relates to the task below on MATLAB
Distributed Computing Server) - Provision of technical documentation of the system architecture and the
DARS-CC applications
In return, we offer a friendly, supportive and professional environment that respects your work/life balance and ultimately contributes to the delivery of public services in Italy and around the world
Successful Candidate
The following skills and knowledge are requested for the performance of the above listed tasks:
- Statistical softwares (SAS, MATLAB and R)
- MySQL
- Oracle
- Linux/Windows OS
- Web administration (LAMP architecture)
- Configuration and management of statistical SW in distributed computing
environment, MySQL and RedHat Linux based system - Good knowledge of English
- Capacity to work efficiently in a multi-disciplinary environment
About the Company
Why should you join Serco ?
At Serco not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play.
Meaningful and vital work - You’ll contribute to methodologically intercepting challenges whilst achievements will also be recognised and celebrated.
A world of opportunity - You’ll be wholeheartedly supported with development and career progression
Great people - You’ll become an integral member of a well-defined and supportive team who believe passionately in the value of our work.
What we offer
- Chance to contribute to innovation in the public services sector
- A company passionate about diversity and inclusion
- Permanent employment with comprehensive Serco Benefits package.
About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play when managing complex public services.
We are a team of 60,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world, we are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.
By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.
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