Data-brokering Engineer for Microbiome and Health Data

The French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE) is seeking a Data-brokering Engineer to join the MaIAGE unit in Jouy-en-Josas. This position is part of the Cloud4sams project within the PEPR SAMS programme, which aims to build a secure, distributed digital infrastructure for microbiome and health data exploitation. The successful candidate will manage metadata compliance, establish quality evaluation criteria, and develop software components for data deposition using tools like madbot. The role requires strong computer science expertise, collaborative software development skills, and adherence to international metadata standards.

• Manage metadata compliance according to international standards, legal requirements, and security constraints for potentially identifiable information.
• Define and implement data and metadata quality evaluation criteria in collaboration with project partners.
• Develop software components for collecting, validating, and automatically depositing data into secure public repositories using the madbot tool.
• Write guidelines for managing and submitting human microbiota data and metadata.
• Contribute to the creation of training materials related to data management and deposition workflows.