Senior Research Software Engineer
As an internationally recognized research center, VITO accelerates the transition to a sustainable world. Our world-class Environment \& Health team puts data and scientific innovation at the service of a healthier society. To enable cutting-edge research on the links between the environment and our health, we develop scientific applications, data platforms, and data catalogues. We provide services to both data owners and data users across Europe, helping them to make data interoperable and to facilitate data reuse.
We are looking for an experienced **Senior Research Software Engineer**to lead the design and evolution of scientific data ecosystems. You will play a pivotal role in enabling data-driven research by creating and implementing architectures that make complex datasets discoverable, interoperable, trustworthy, and reusable across organizations, disciplines, and borders. Your vision ensures a robust technical backbone of these data ecosystems, aligned with the FAIR data principles. In this role, you will contribute to open science and shape European data infrastructures with long-term societal impact.
### Your responsibilities
* You develop our research data infrastructure for environmental health data. You gather requirements from colleagues and stakeholders, you translate these requirements into a clear technical approach, and you coordinate the project team to ensure the plan is executed.
* You are an advocate for FAIR data: You apply FAIR data principles in the design of data infrastructures. Based on input from domain experts, you maintain and further develop semantic resources for the domain of environmental health, and you promote their adoption and sound governance.
* Your implementation plan is aligned with and seizes opportunities offered by the rapidly evolving European data landscape (e.g. EHDS, EOSC).
* You help ensure that data infrastructures comply with relevant regulations (e.g. GDPR) and internal policies, working closely with VITO's data protection and security experts.
* You work closely with product owners, other software engineers, data stewards, researchers on Environment \& Health, and with our European partners.
* You contribute to strategic roadmaps, funding proposals, and innovation initiatives related to research data infrastructure.
* You will shape how environmental health data is shared and reused across Europe, directly influencing how chemical risks and exposures are assessed in initiatives such as PARC, the European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (https://www.eu-parc.eu/) and in EIRENE, the European Research Infrastructure for the human exposome (https://eirene.eu/).