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Data Specialist

UtrechtHybrid38 hours/week<3months

As a Data Specialist, you are the driving force behind the HR data needed to get the right information on the table. You contribute to the important support of the management of a government organization. With your specialization, we are able to provide information that allows quick and correct decisions to be made. It is essential to ensure that the organization always has sufficient and good colleagues.

With your expertise and creativity in the field of data, you make valuable contributions to the organization now and work towards being predictive based on data.

What you will do. As a Data Specialist, you have a dynamic role and work with colleagues from different parts of a government institution. The role has several important tasks:

  • Extracting the right data, combining different data sources, and building relevant data pipelines and HR dashboards;
  • Developing a plan to further expand these dashboards and the data warehouse;
  • Professionalizing awareness, knowledge, and use of management information;
  • Providing relevant information to answer business questions.

Responsibilities.

  • Inventorying and analyzing available data within the (HR) operations of the organization and from other sources;
  • Applying data analysis and data science methods and techniques to extract added value from data;
  • Making data available and accessible in a data warehouse environment in a usable form suitable for analysis;
  • Working with a diversity of (open, closed, and commercial) data sources, with safety, reliability, and availability being central.

Develops, researches, and maintains the (big) data architecture by:

  • Mapping the specifications of the desired data architecture in consultation with other parties, such as suppliers and users, to deliver the desired result;
  • Maintaining and managing data warehouse, (CI/CD) pipelines, and dashboards.

Ensures knowledge and experience by:

  • Recording/documenting and disseminating acquired knowledge in reports, presentations, and guidelines;
  • Knowledge sharing within the team.
  • Increasing data awareness among (end) users/stakeholders.

What they ask Technical.

  • Experience with developing data pipelines (ETL) and data modeling.
  • Experience with data visualization (PowerBI/PL-300).

Other.

  • A completed HBO education (bachelor) or HBO work and thinking level. Demonstrable through a combination of knowledge, education, and experience, if necessary verifiable in an assessment;
  • Experience participating in multidisciplinary teams/projects;
  • Experience in project-based collaboration for realizing end-to-end solutions;
  • Knowledge of Agile/SCRUM way of working.

Preferences.

  • Experience with Python, SQL/Postgres, and Data Vault modeling is a plus.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git(lab) is a plus.
  • Affinity or experience with a government institution is a plus.
  • Knowledge of Data Science applications and solutions;
  • Knowledge of IT security, threat analysis, and risk management;
  • Knowledge of modern IT applications and techniques.

You are analytically strong and quickly grasp complex issues. You come up with creative solutions, take initiative, and actively collaborate with various stakeholders. You are able to involve others in your ideas and advice and know how to exert influence to achieve common results.

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