Data Integration and Publication Expert (PFAS and Substances of Concern)

As an ICT expert, you will strengthen the organisation's IT team. This team follows the agile methodology and works on the organisation's premises.

You support the publication and/or regular updating of the geodata for the database's various components, working with the subject-matter owners of the various datasets at the partner organisations. This makes the data usable in web, desktop and mobile applications and with the tools that are available and/or being developed for the database. You also contribute to the publication of the database's data as linked data.

Your tasks include:

• Taking part in the team's agile ceremonies (stand-up, sprint planning, review and retrospective).
• Analysing the datasets to be published.
• Supporting the creation of metadata.
• Creating configurations in the GeoServer Taskmanager to copy data and publish it as network services (WMS, WFS, WCS, ...).
• Testing and documenting the various steps of the publication process.
• Providing input for and testing future versions of the Taskmanager.
• Preparing maps and developing tools that support business processes using maps in the field.
• Setting up data migration processes.
• Further developing the analysis and tests for the various thematic explorers.
• Further developing the database's Python package for advanced users.

The database you will work on is a partnership within the Flemish government between several Flemish government agencies. Together, they manage and publish data and information on the subsurface and soil in Flanders.

The team is part of the organisation's Digitalisation team, so you will occasionally also work at the head office. You work at the office at least 2 days a week and can telework the other days.

As a data integration and publication expert, you ensure that the thematic explorers, and the PFAS explorer in particular, are maintained and developed further. Each explorer has a public and an internal version. For PFAS, work continues on publishing all data flows inventoried in the first interim PFAS report, in line with the requirements of the PFAS working groups on data handling and on monitoring and research. Besides PFAS, the focus is also on substances of concern.

You work in a technical environment that includes GeoServer, GeoNetwork, PostGIS, QGIS and Python.