Junior/Intermediate Data Scientist/Engineer
GRESB, Netherlands
Job Description
The GRESB Data Team started with one person in 2015 and grew to its current size of 5 over the last several years. As the team grew, we experimented with different approaches to collaboration. We have now settled on a process that involves detailed code reviews, structured sprints, and quarterly team days to ensure that we continue to learn from our shared experiences. Being a relatively young team we are always open to new ideas and look forward to having more people join our team and grow with us.
Our team has a shared set of values which are:
- Adaptiveness: Both the sustainability and data engineering/science sectors change rapidly and we strive to stay up to date with the latest developments.
- Collaboration: We achieve the best results together and see value in taking time to develop a smooth collaboration process.
- Openness: We are always open to new ideas, share our ideas with the rest of the company, and are transparent about what goes on in our team.
- Reliability: The information provided by GRESB is used to make financial decisions that facilitate the transition to a more sustainable economy. Our team is crucial to ensuring this information is reliable.
- Wellness: We believe that the best work is done when our colleagues are well and as such we care for each other's well-being.
The data team is part of the larger technology team, which includes QA engineers, UX designers and software engineers in addition to data scientists and engineers.
The responsibilities of the data team are growing in terms of developing data processing algorithms hosted in the cloud and creating solutions for reporting using data warehouses and Tableau. We are looking for someone to help us meet these challenges.
The Position
As a data scientist, you will help GRESB organize and aggregate the data collected via the GRESB platform and APIs. Being a sustainability data provider, GRESB’s services rely heavily on data processing and your work will be essential for ensuring that GRESB can deliver reliable information to our customers. You will do this by leveraging your talents in data processing, statistics and data analysis. You will work in a team with other data scientists and engineers, and report to the Lead Data Scientist.
As a data scientist/engineer, your tasks include:
- Implementing data cleaning and processing
- Implementing the automatic calculation of various statistics
- Structuring a large variety of data for report generation
- Ensuring the validity of the data provided by GRESB
- Developing and maintaining data warehouses
- Developing and maintaining dashboards in Tableau
- Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Reviewing code from other team members
- Contributing to development of internal software packages
Tech Stack
The main tech stack of the data team includes: R, PostgreSQL, Tableau, Docker, GitHub Actions, AWS Lambda, Terraform and JSON schema.
In the wider technology team you will also find technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Java, Confluent Kafka and Kubernetes.
We use Github to manage our code repository and AWS to host our software.
Requirements
Experience with the following is a must:
- Using R, Python, Julia or any other data oriented programming language for data manipulation
- Git
- At least one of the following:
- 2+ years of experience as a data scientist
- Higher education in a relevant field
Experience with the following is a plus:
- Maintaining and developing within a larger codebase
- Working with Github or similar to collaborate on shared code
- Data warehousing
- Tableau, PowerBI, Qlik or similar
- CI / CD
- Docker
- AWS
- Terraform
- Domain knowledge in sustainability, finance, real estate or infrastructure
- A degree in a STEM subject
Benefits
- 25 days of paid holidays
- Company pension plan
- Personal development budget of EUR 2,500 annually
- Involvement in a fast growing international organization that is globally recognized as the leading sustainability benchmark for real assets
- International team with with 15+ nationalities
- We are open to providing visa sponsorship to overseas candidates
- Free public transport to and from work inside the Netherlands
- Free and healthy lunch at the office
- Live in Amsterdam, one of the world’s most international and sustainable cities
- A lot of fun things you can join such as team dinners, drinks and the occasional party
- Work from home or work from the office: we have adopted a hybrid way of working, but we do require you to occasionally come in for team meetings