Software Engineer II

Luxembourg National Data Service (LNDS)
is a brand of PNED G.I.E. an organisation created by the Luxembourg Government, to implement Luxembourg's strategies in research, innovation, and digitalisation. LNDS enables value creation from secondary use of data, for public and private partners and supports the sharing and re-use of public sector data, in a trustable manner. The LNDS service portfolio includes know-how, capabilities, tools, infrastructure, and data services. Through efficient & responsible use of data and improving the secondary use of data, LNDS will support the acceleration of economic, ecological, and societal transitions.

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Fixed-Term Contract - 24 months - Project based

As a software engineer, you will contribute to the design of applications and integration of new services with the existing data-centric infrastructures. You will be a key actor of continuous improvement and innovation within the organisation, focusing on automating parts of the software development process, internal data flows and internal tooling. You will be part of the Technology team.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deliver and maintain quality software.
• Contribute to application design and integration with existing data-centric infrastructures.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and innovation, automating parts of the software development process, internal data flows, and internal tooling.
• Collaborate within the agile software development team, delivering and maintaining quality software as required by the Platform.
• Participate in the entire software lifecycle process, including requirements gathering, user story creation, development, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipeline setup, testing, and maintenance.
• Apply good software development practices, including consistent coding style, quality, and testing.
• Ensure security and privacy by design practices are incorporated into your work.
• Assist in technical analysis and design of software solutions.
• Provide excellent issue tracking and customer support with the team.
• Write and maintain comprehensive documentation.
• Offer technical expertise to external parties and represent the platform in meetings, conferences, and gatherings with stakeholders.
• Stay up to date with evolving software technologies.

Required skills and qualifications.

• MSc or PhD in a scientific, technological, or engineering discipline related to computer science, information technology, or computing.
• 2 to 5 years of relevant experience in programming, deployment, and maintenance of applications.

Professional competencies

• Working knowledge of security- and privacy-by-design principles.
• Creative, solution oriented with good analytical skills and a mindset for quality.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the abilities to clearly articulate the technical needs and to work within an interdisciplinary setting and communicate with external partners.
• An interest in state-of-the-art technologies, DevSecOps and to be in an agile environment.
• Critical thinking, adaptable, flexible and able to accept and manage changes in the workplace.
• Autonomous, attentive to details, ambitious and curious.
• You have cultural intelligence and diversity consciousness.
• Languages: English (fluent)
• Working knowledge of one of Luxembourg's official languages (French, German or Luxembourgish) is a plus.

Technical competencies

• Experience with Python or Java languages. Other languages are considered as a plus.
• Knowledge in one technological stack, covering backend to frontend.
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Podman).
• Working knowledge of authentication protocols like OIDC, SAML or LDAP/AD, and solutions like Keycloak.
• Knowledge of SQL & noSQL technologies.
• Knowledge of cloud ecosystems.
• Comfortable working on Linux and git environments daily.

Projects involved:

• The Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) project is enabling access to genomic and related phenotypic and clinical data across Europe. It is doing this by establishing a federated, sustainable and secure infrastructure to access the data. This is a 4-year project that started in November The Software Engineer would join the team developing the European user portal, which is part of work package 4 that is led by Luxembourg.