Research Information Scientist - CUSP at NYU
Center for Urban Science and Progress
Brooklyn

The CUSP NYU data facility has been established to support
the empirical study of cities in conjunction with New York based researchers,
agencies, and citizens.

  
The research information scientist will serve as an information specialist,
programmer, and ETL engineer, in order to support the full CUSP data life
cycle, including data curation, data ingestion, data discovery, and researcher
access. The research information scientist will be
responsible for collecting, developing, collating, archiving and communicating
information about research datasets in the CUSP data
facility. In that role, s/he will
oversee the metadata management system and design/implement new features or
services as needed, which requires strong programming and database skills.
S/he will provide programming support to software engineers, in order to adapt
in-house data profiling and discovery software to build and update in-house
software. A successful research
information scientist candidate will also be able to develop basic and execute
complex ETL scripts for data ingest and researcher database
development. This person will lead CUSP's metadata
knowledge management - structural and domain information about data assets. In
this role, s/he will communicate with domain experts on NYC and related open
data, urban policy research data, and physical measurement data, creating a
database to facilitate data discovery beyond the standard laundry list
approach.



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