Climate-KIC
Social Impact • Energy • Agriculture
Climate-KIC is Europe’s leading climate innovation agency and community. It supports cities, regions, countries, and industries to achieve their climate ambitions through systemic innovations and place-based transformations. The organization collaborates with a global network of partners spanning the public and private sectors, mobilizing finance, testing new business models, and opening pathways for institutional and behavioral changes. Climate-KIC orchestrates large-scale demonstrations to promote exponential decarbonization and build resilient communities. By focusing on interconnected solutions and local adoptions, it guides regions towards circular economies and sustainable food systems, aiming to accelerate climate neutrality and resilience by 2030. Climate entrepreneurship and learning are integral to its mission, transforming the startup ecosystem to deeply embed climate impact in entrepreneurship.
51 - 200 employees
Founded 2010
🌍 Social Impact
⚡ Energy
🌾 Agriculture
Senior Geospatial Data Architect – Earth Observation, Climate Services
November 21
Climate-KIC
Social Impact • Energy • Agriculture
Climate-KIC is Europe’s leading climate innovation agency and community. It supports cities, regions, countries, and industries to achieve their climate ambitions through systemic innovations and place-based transformations. The organization collaborates with a global network of partners spanning the public and private sectors, mobilizing finance, testing new business models, and opening pathways for institutional and behavioral changes. Climate-KIC orchestrates large-scale demonstrations to promote exponential decarbonization and build resilient communities. By focusing on interconnected solutions and local adoptions, it guides regions towards circular economies and sustainable food systems, aiming to accelerate climate neutrality and resilience by 2030. Climate entrepreneurship and learning are integral to its mission, transforming the startup ecosystem to deeply embed climate impact in entrepreneurship.
51 - 200 employees
Founded 2010
🌍 Social Impact
⚡ Energy
🌾 Agriculture
📋 Description
• Advise and guide the AI-ready data architecture and service definition of data spaces for institutional clients, who will be doing the data-space-development in-house. • Guide and execute needs and gap assessment among all the relevant stakeholders, providers and users on data needs • Design and define the overall system architecture and technology approach based on client requirements and constraints, including the harmonisation of heterogeneous data • Create detailed technical specifications for external partners that clearly define what to build and quality standards • Review partner deliverables to ensure they meet specifications and align with project goals • Identify technical risks early and make trade-off recommendations between scope, budget and timeline • Support the delivery of existing contracts/projects by writing deliverables, executing tasks, participating in project meetings both online and in-person, including proposing and creating content and managing your own workload. • Representing the team and the organisation in online and in-person meetings. • Supporting the team’s business development through, e.g. proposal writing. • Supporting the identification, definition and development of new services and products.
🎯 Requirements
• More than five years of experience working with data and geospatial analysis, ideally in climate, environmental, or sustainability-focused projects. • Experience in designing technical solutions for government or institutional clients, understanding their constraints and decision-making processes • Experience managing external teams or contractors and coordinating complex technical work • Deep understanding of data architecture: databases, APIs, data pipelines and how components connect together • Practical geospatial data engineering experience across the full stack: working with satellite imagery and geospatial data formats (GeoTIFF, COG, NetCDF), spatial databases like PostGIS, building data pipelines, and deploying solutions with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure, Docker). • Experience with APIs (REST, OGC standards) and version control/CI-CD practices is valuable. • Strong background in data science and GIS, with hands-on experience managing, analysing, and visualising spatial data (ArcGIS or QGIS). • Skilled in Python or R, translating complex datasets into insights that support climate action and systems innovation. • Experience designing and managing data workflows and pipelines, from service definition to delivery. • Good understanding of Earth Observation (EO) data—its sources, formats, and applications—and the ability to assess technical input in light of climate resilience needs. • Confident communicator who can lead collaborative projects, work across teams, and engage diverse (including non-technical) partners in international and cross-cultural settings. • Experience documenting workflows and supporting others in the use of GIS, data, and AI tools. • Comfortable with digital collaboration platforms such as Office365, Teams, SharePoint, Salesforce, Miro, and Canva.
🏖️ Benefits
• High degree of flexibility to accommodate working patterns • Opportunities for personal development, learning, and growth
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