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# Data engineer & developer Digital Twin Ocean

- **Company:** Flanders Marine Institute (vliz)
- **Location:** Oostende, Belgium
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Information Engineering, Software Engineering, Data Management
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz-recruits-data-engineer-developer-digital-twin-ocean

## About the Role

* You hold a degree in computer science, informatics or engineering, or you can demonstrate equivalent via relevant experience.
 * You have experience in software development, data engineering, geospatial technologies or system integration.
 * You are comfortable working with one or more programming or scripting languages (i.e. Python).
 * You have experience working with APIs and understand modern web-based and machine-tomachine integration patterns.
 * You have practical experience with data transforming workflows and structured scientific or geospatial datasets.
 * You have experience with modern collaborative software development tools and practices (i.e. Git).
 * Experience with STAC, OGC standards, NetCDF, GeoJSON, GeoParquet, Zarr or related technologies is an asset.
 * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or other container orchestration technologies applications is an asset.
 * Experience with cloud environments, S3 object storage or data lake architectures is an asset.
 * Knowledge of CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring and operational service management is an asset.
 * You are able to independently investigate technical problems, compare viable solutions and translate your findings into practical implementations.
 * You enjoy working across the boundaries of software development, data engineering, and infrastructure.
 * You can document technical solutions clearly and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
 * You can write fluently and communicate clearly in English.
 * You enjoy collaborating within multidisciplinary and international teams.

## Description

* You contribute to the technical development and operation of the European Digital Twin of the Ocean (EDITO) infrastructure and related projects.
 * You drive and support the onboarding process of datasets, data services, models and applications onto EDITO in collaboration with data specialists and researchers.
 * You investigate and implement suitable cloud-optimised formats and access mechanisms for diverse types of marine data.
 * You develop scalable and reliable ETL data pipelines.
 * You develop and integrate APIs that make datasets and services machine readabl.
 * You contribute to metadata management, data discovery and cataloguing solutions.
 * You work with object storage, data lakes and cloud-native access patterns for large scientific and geospatial datasets.
 * You implement open standards and contribute to FAIR and open-data principles.
 * You contribute code, documentation, technical guidelines and reusable onboarding procedures.
 * You participate in European projects and technical working groups and represent VLIZ in relevant international technical meetings and workshops.
 * You proactively build expertise in emerging technologies relevant to cloud-native data infrastructures, Digital Twins, geospatial data and distributed scientific computing.

For each function, VLIZ considers enthusiastic involvement, service minded, excellent professionalism and integrity as important characteristics.