This one-year task will focus on the development of a search portal for marine geology data and National Ocean Service’s (NOS) Seabed Descriptions. The incumbent will design, develop, implement, operate, and maintain applications and services used in data and scientific information management systems for the scientific analysis, documentation, and access to coastal, oceanographic and geophysical data and information. This can include the scientific data pipeline and workflow components within the NCEI data architecture, which can include services to upload and extract data from digital databases, ingest and transform data sources, or analytic tools or products for change detection, monitoring, and quality control.
The incumbent will:
- Work with data managers to find and understand the data types (Marine Geological data and Seabed Descriptions data), identifying any orphaned data.
- Review the current database schema with SME and update where needed, optimizing for searching and best practices for maintaining relational data integrity.
- Create a public-facing web user interface, with map capabilities, to search for geology data.
- Create the base service application and develop the REST API, used for programmatic discovery of the metadata that will power the UI.
- The tool will meet the requirements of the marine geology data manager and follow all NCEI IT deployment requirements inclusive of 508 compliance.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or software engineering
Technical Skills:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience developing scientific software applications for use with oceanographic, geophysical or environmental data.
- Expertise with Python, R and Java
- Experience with Oracle Databases
Preferred Skills
- Experience with ERDDAP Thredds OpenDAP
- Experience with Marine Geology Databases
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Training & Development
Top Skills
What We Do
Riverside is an internationally recognized engineering, science, and information technology company with more than 30 years experience providing innovative information technology solutions for environmental decision support systems, using a variety of different environmental data sources, from satellite sensors and imagery to stream gages in local rivers.
Riverside provides innovative environmental system solutions that allow stakeholders to make informed decisions about how best to serve their communities. Our science and engineering experts manage and analyze critical data and provide specialized services encompassing the data lifecycle -- from collection and management to analysis and visualization. We provide design, development, and implementation for projects in the sectors of Earth Observation and Satellite Systems, Atmospheric and Hydrologic Sciences, Land Use and Natural Resources, Coastal and Marine Environments, and Climate Risk.
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