Life Sciences Metadata Architect

1000scholars

Oost-Vlaanderen

Remote

EUR 60,000 - 90,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

VIB in Ghent, Belgium, is seeking a Research Metadata Specialist to shape how life-science data is described, connected and exchanged across data platforms. You will link datasets to samples, experiments, projects and publications, making information machine-readable for reuse, reporting, automation and responsible AI.

You will collaborate with researchers, data stewards and developers to create practical metadata models, mappings and validation rules, and to train teams on templates and

Qualifications

Master's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
Experience with metadata in life-science research across data types.
Ability to read API documentation and work with JSON or XML; scripting.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain metadata models connecting life-science data with context.
Apply standards, vocabularies, ontologies and persistent identifiers with domain experts.
Build and maintain mappings between local systems, central data platform and external repositories.
Develop lightweight API-based workflows to retrieve and transform metadata; collaborate with developers.
Define quality requirements and validation rules; help automate them.
Coordinate review, testing, versioning and documentation of metadata models and templates.
Train developers, data stewards and users and iterate improvements.

Skills

Metadata design

API workflows

JSON/XML

Git

Education

Master's degree or equivalent in bioinformatics / data science

Tools

RDF

JSON-LD

Job description

You will collaborate with researchers, data stewards and developers to create practical metadata models, mappings and validation rules, and to train teams on templates and

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