Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW-HSG)

Data Science Research Assistant / Data Lake Engineer (m/f/d)

Data Science Research Assistant / Data Lake Engineer (m/f/d)

70 % (limited, by 01.08.2026)

Your tasks

Responsibilities And Project

The position supports the development of a research data lake for empirical work with large-scale financial, textual, licensed, and partly confidential datasets. The objective is to build a robust, well-documented, and reproducible data infrastructure that allows researchers to ingest, store, process, document, and analyze data efficiently and securely.

Research And Infrastructure Tasks Will Include Data Engineering, Coding, Documentation, And Coordination With Researchers And IT/platform Providers. Core Tasks Include, Among Others

Design and implementation of the research data lake

Support the design of a scalable data architecture for approximately 5 TB of research data
Structure data into raw, cleaned, and analysis-ready layers
Develop explicit naming conventions, folder structures, access rules,



and documentation standards
Ensure that the data lake supports long-term retention of raw and processed data

Data ingestion and integration

Build automated workflows to import data from external providers, databases, APIs, file deliveries, and researcher-maintained sources
Integrate financial datasets, textual datasets, and other licensed research data into a consistent infrastructure
Implement validation checks, logging, error handling, and version control for data updates
Document data provenance, licenses, update frequencies, and usage restrictions

Automation of research pipelines

Develop reproducible pipelines for cleaning, transforming, and preparing datasets for empirical research
Create reusable scripts and templates for recurring data tasks
Support researchers in converting manual data work into automated and documented workflows
Contribute to reproducible research practices throug

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