"CIRES/ NOAA NCEI Space Weather Data Manager"

The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado in Boulder has an immediate opening for a Space Weather Data Manager working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). NCEI is a globally recognized repository and provider of long-term geophysical, space weather, and marine data. This position is located within NCEI’s Solar and Terrestrial Physics (STP) branch.

STP is responsible for data stewardship and product development for space weather instruments on satellites including the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES), the Space Weather Follow-On (SWFO) mission satellites, the Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES), the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), and the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). Data management at NCEI is focused on providing support to users including NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, US Air Force, government agencies, academia, and many international organizations.

CIRES is looking for a data manager that will manage large data sets, automate data management and processing pipelines, and describe data and datasets with standard metadata. The person in this position will be a member of the STP data management team. The successful candidate will collaborate as part of a team of scientists and software engineers that process and steward satellite space weather data, serving global data users by providing discovery and access for data and derived scientific products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the ingest, archive, and distribution of data collected by NOAA satellites and other space-weather observation platforms.
• Develop and maintain scripts to enhance the automation of operational processes.
• Identify ways to improve and enhance ingest and access systems and assist in implementing these changes.
• Draft and maintain external and internal documentation.
• Populate online databases and create and modify websites to enable discovery and access for space weather data products.
• Collaborate with the space weather team, including other data managers and software engineers.
• Monitor and improve data repositories and services.
• Create metadata in standard formats to drive discovery services for big data.
• Assist researchers and the public regarding NOAA’s space weather data.
• Research technological advances and standard methodologies in data stewardship and data sciences.
• Maintain a basic understanding of the science data in the archive.