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SKA Mid -Senior Data Analyst/Telescope Operator
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Key Responsibilities:
Key Requirements:
Qualification:
Experience:
Knowledge:
Extreme Importance (Essential):
- Manage performance of data analyst/ Telescope operator team
- Play a leading role in the designing and documenting of operating procedures for our client
- Conduct, monitor and calibrate astronomical observations and use appropriate computing resources towards successful operation of the telescope array
- Assume responsibility for quality assurance of data and ensure timeous completion of QA tasks by team
- Enable communication between engineering and technical staff and scientific stakeholders
Key Requirements:
Qualification:
- MSc in physics, astronomy, engineering, computing or related discipline, coupled with 4 years environment or
- BSc (Hons) in physics, astronomy, engineering, computing or related discipline, coupled with 5 years scientific environment.: OR
- Undergraduate degree in physics, astronomy or related discipline, coupled with 6 years environment.
Experience:
- MSc in physics, astronomy or related discipline, coupled with 4 years
- BSc (Hons) in physics, astronomy or related discipline, coupled with 5 years
- Undergraduate degree in physics, astronomy or related discipline, coupled with 6 years environment.
- Experience in leading a team
- Experience in controlling and operating a scientific research instrument including scheduling
- Experience in developing of operational procedures, monitoring dashboards and documentation
- Data analysis
Knowledge:
- Principles of radio astronomy and interferometric calibration
- Radio astronomy reduction software
- Control and monitoring systems
- Scientific computing
Extreme Importance (Essential):
- Domain knowledge: Experience in radio astronomy observations and data reduction pipelines
- High level analytical capability: Demonstrated problem-solving ability
- Teamwork and collaboration: Cooperates with others to achieve organisational objectives and may share team resources to do this
- Well-developed verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Documentation: Aptitude to contribute to the definition and development of operational procedures, monitoring dashboards and documentation.
- Rigor in maintaining reports and documentation.
- Scientific computing: Understanding of software development and data analysis using Python, C or C++ in Linux environment
- Resource Management/Leadership: Provides leadership that fosters an environment that encourages new ideas and provides support for the development of emerging skills. Creates trust by displaying consistency, understanding, integrity and patience and plans, seeks, allocates and monitors resources to achieve outcomes.
- Judgement and Problem Solv
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