Consultancy - Sglake Project

Consultancy - SGLake Project - (TAL-SGIS20250925-001)

Organization: SGIS-Development Section

Primary Location: Austria-Vienna-Vienna-IAEA Headquarters

Job Posting: 2025-10-06, 8:51:39 AM

Closing Date: 2025-10-13, 4:59:00 PM

Duration in Months: 12

Contract Type: Special Service Agreement - SSA

Full Competitive Recruitment: No

**Organizational Setting**

The Department of Safeguards carries out the IAEA's duties and responsibilities as the world's nuclear inspectorate, supporting global efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. The primary role of the Department is to develop and implement IAEA safeguards to ensure that there is no diversion of declared nuclear material from peaceful activities and no indications of undeclared nuclear material or activities in a State as a whole.

The Department comprises nuclear safeguards inspectors, responsible for carrying out inspections and verifications of all-safeguards relevant information for nuclear facilities in over 180 States; and technical staff responsible for a wide range of activities including: developing concepts and approaches for implementing safeguards; developing and maintaining safeguards equipment; providing analytical and laboratory services for sample analysis; collecting, evaluating and analysing safeguards-relevant information; providing information and communication technology infrastructure and services; and providing programme coordination support.

The Office of Information and Communication Systems (SGIS) is responsible for the provision of secure Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services that enable the Department of Safeguards to deliver on its mandate. Major services provided by SGIS include provision of information technology project management services; development and maintenance of specialized ICT solutions; operation of resilient ICT infrastructure; provision of customer support services; and protection of safeguards information. In partnership with other organizational entities, SGIS is responsible for planning and implementing ICT strategies as well as promoting ICT standards.

**Main Purpose**

As a member of the SGLake project team within the Development Section, Office for Information and Communications System (SGIS), the Subscriber shall contribute to the project goal of establishing a major new platform for the Department of Safeguards: the Data Lakehouse. In particular, the Subscriber shall provide expert guidance in new technology and platforms, lead task implementation, support project delivery and implementation, and promote a Data Lakehouse best practice approach.

**Functions / Key Results Expected**

The Subscriber shall:

- Design and implement data products using the newly established Data Lakehouse architecture;
- Advise and validate architectural components in close collaboration with the IT Solution Architect;
- Design, build and maintain data pipelines and architectures, integrating and managing large volumes of data from various data sources into the established Data Lakehouse;
- Ensure data quality, data integrity and data consistency in the project;
- Collaborate with business users, data scientists, analysts, development teams and other stakeholders to design and provide relevant data services and products;
- Optimize data flows, database queries and performance tuning.

**Qualifications and Experience**
- University degree in Computer Science, Data Science or similar.
- 5 years of relevant professional experience working with complex data integration platforms supporting data analysis and data services;
- In-depth experience in data engineering and related tools like Spark, Flink, Trino, Airflow, Iceberg, Jupyter, dbt core, meltano, Kafka, Debezium, S3, elastic;
- Proficient in Python and SQL.

**Remuneration**

The remuneration for this consultancy is a daily fee of up to a maximum of € 350, based on qualifications and experience. In case duty travel is required within the assignment, a daily subsistence allowance (DSA) and travel costs are provided. Health coverage and pension fund are the responsibility of the incumbent.