Overview
The ICT Associate contributes to the delivery of reliable, timely, and quality-controlled geospatial and IoT data to support operational systems and decision-making across UN field missions.
Key Responsibilities
- Assists in designing, developing and maintaining end-to-end geo-enabled IoT data pipelines, including ingestion, transformation, integration, and delivery.
- Supports in developing and managing data models, datasets, and repositories.
- Helps in processing and integrating large-scale structured, semi-structured, and time-series IoT data.
- Supports the evolution of modern data architectures.
- Implements and enforces data quality management frameworks.
- Monitors and troubleshoots data pipelines and datasets.
- Maintains and updates datasets, databases, and data services.
- Supports the delivery of trusted data products, including dashboards, reports, and geospatial services.
- Prepares and maintains technical documentation, data workflows, and standard operating procedures.
Required Experience
- Relevant experience is defined as experience in the field of data engineering, data pipelines, and data platform management, including modern data architectures.
- Experience designing and maintaining end-to-end data pipelines (ETL/ELT) and working with data lake, warehouse, or lakehouse architecture.
- Hands-on experience with geo-enabled IoT data, including near real-time or streaming data processing, and industrial time-series platforms such as AVEVA PI System or equivalent.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and data processing frameworks (e.g., Spark or equivalent).
Qualifications
• Secondary school (or equivalent) with 6 years of relevant experience OR Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in any discipline with 2 years of relevant experience.
