Senior Big Data Developer

The i2CAT Foundation is looking for a Senior Big Data developer who is willing to get involved in exciting Research and Innovation projects in the framework of both, the H2020 European program and the ‘Tecnologies Emergents’ Catalan program.

The suitable candidate will work closely with our experts in Artificial Intelligence and Software Development to deploy the potential of the Big Data in these fields.

She/He will work in the following projects side by side with our Catalan and European partners:

• BOOST4.0 is an H2020 European project that aims to connect the factories of the future to an International Data Space (IDS) and guide them in the introduction of the Big Data in their sectors.
• FemIOT is a ‘Tecnologies Emergents’ project seeking to produce an IoT data valoritzation platform based in Apache technologies and to deploy on this platform some use cases in the fields of the sustainable energy and mobility.
• Looming Factories is another ‘Tecnologies Emergents’ project that aims to provide secure data connectors to the factories 4.0 and a data marketplace in which the data will be shared and processed safely.

The successful candidate will develop the following tasks:

• Contribute to the design and implementation of the trusted IDS data Connector element of IDS, customizing it to the Boost 4.0 environment. The data connector connects to internal datasources inside a company and makes this data available in a standardized (RDF, Linked Data), secured, authenticated and controlled fashion to selected data value chain partners.
• Gather final the users’ requirements for an IoT data valorization platform.
• Participate in the design of the architecture and the development of the data valorization platform based in Apache components (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, ActiveMQ, Sqoop, Flume, etc.)
• Travel and participate in the project meeting with the Catalan and European partners few times a year
• Follow up with the general projects status and deliver the required reports.

Who we are:

i2CAT Foundation is a non-profit research and innovation centre that promotes mission oriented R&D activities on advanced Internet architectures, applications and services. The centre stands for a new open innovation framework, fostering the collaboration between companies, public administration, the academic environment and end-users.

i2CAT’s activities span the areas of Research, playing a key role in the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation; Strategic Projects, leading local initiatives that strengthen the digital policies of public administration, and Technology Transfer, fostering R&D collaboration with companies to develop innovative market-oriented solutions.

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 What do we offer:

• You will be part of a multicultural team. We have a fun loving and friendly international work environment.
• Be in contact and work with cutting-edge technology
• Work in challenging R&D projects
• Fix + variable salary
• Option of flexible retribution (restaurant card, transport card, medical insurance, kindergarten)
• Flexible working schedule - We know you have a life outside of work and we will work with you to make sure it's kept that way
• Fridays afternoon off
• Intensive work schedule in July & August
• Home-office option
• Open space office in Barcelona
• Free fruit every week
• Discounted Gym-access
• 25 vacation days per year
• Casual dress code
• Let us know which trainings you need
• You will have the opportunity to attend tech conferences and events.

The i2CAT Foundation seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and, therefore explicitly, encourages women to apply.

The i2CAT Foundation seeks to increase the number of persons with disabilities among its workforce, and therefore explicitly encourages this collective to apply.

"This job offer will be co-financed in whole or in part by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the ERDF Operational Programme of Catalonia 2014-2020"