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Internship as a Data Engineer & Open Data Enthusiast

Full time Data Engineering Business Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering Biostatistics Data Warehouse

Job Description

60%–100%

Presidential Department, Statistical Office

Available immediately or by arrangement, for a fixed term of 6 months, with the option to extend up to a maximum of 12 months.

Your tasks

Publicly publish data and metadata: You help us analyze government data, model it in the new cantonal data catalog, and automate its publication on I14Y.admin.ch and data.bs.ch.

Working with people and data: You use your communication skills to understand the requirements and wishes of our diverse stakeholders; you outline solutions and help to model them in the data catalog as a team, and code pipelines with AI in Python.

Analyze, understand, model, publish: Your flair for data analysis is in demand to understand data and represent it in models. You maintain an overview of the relationships, customer needs, and public expectations.

Your profile

Experience: You are interested in data modeling and analysis with AI support, e.g., using SQL and Python. Linux/Git is nothing new to you. If you also enjoy Docker and open code, then you're a perfect fit for our motivated team.

Personality: You enjoy working flexibly on diverse tasks and are interested in many things, including new ones. You are keen to take responsibility for sub-projects. You enjoy independent programming and are outgoing.

Education: Ideally, you have a master's degree. Interest in or initial experience in data engineering or application development, for example with conventional databases, is also extremely valuable to us.

Language: You enjoy communicating and are good at communicating in German, both orally and in writing.

An insight into our work

The Statistical Office is part of the Presidential Department and serves as the statistics and data competence center for the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Operating independently and according to scientific principles, it provides up-to-date statistical information and delivers reliable services to the public and government. By publishing open government data, it contributes to transparency in government actions. It shapes data management within the canton and advocates for efficient data flows and effective data governance.
The DCC Data Competence Center, as part of the Statistical Office, is responsible for maintaining the data catalog and publishing open government data (OGD) at https://data.bs.ch. The Statistical Office employs approximately 45 highly motivated data experts with broad knowledge of all aspects of data: acquisition, processing, storage, modeling and maintenance, methodology, and the visualization and publication of statistical information. There is a growing demand for data-driven services for planning, management, and information, which we provide internally.

Your advantages

Use your talents and your potential

We support your professional advancement with a wide range of further education and development opportunities throughout all phases of life.

Reconcile your professional and private life

We support you in the best possible way with flexible working hours, part-time work and home office options, as well as annual and trust-based working hours and job sharing opportunities.

Bring your personality to the table.

We value and utilize the diversity of our employees and ensure an equal opportunity working environment.

Questions about your application

Your contact

Questions about the function

Jonas Bieri
Head of Data Engineering & AI
Tel. +41 61 267 59 37

Questions about your application

Jonas Eckenfels
Leiter DCC Data Competence Center
Tel. +41 61 267 87 48

Versatile.
Working for the city of Basel.

One thing unites all of our more than 11,000 employees: they are actively involved in the life of the city, supporting, empowering, guiding, shaping, and protecting. With their dedication, they contribute every day to making Basel-Stadt a vibrant and lovable place to live. Our employees and their opportunities are as diverse as our tasks. Welcome to the team of the Canton of Basel-Stadt!

Kanton Basel-Stadt
About Kanton Basel-Stadt

37 km2, three municipalities and almost 200,000 inhabitants. In Basel-Stadt, the variety and range of offers of a big city are combined with the charm and manageability of a small town. Basel-Stadt is the center of a trinational metropolitan region and works closely with its neighbors in the areas of politics, business and science. As an attractive center of life, Basel-Stadt offers museums, restaurants and clubs as well as well-kept parks and playgrounds. Would you like to work for us? Diverse tasks and challenges await you. Whether in a managerial position or as a specialist – your commitment will benefit the residents. With a good 10,000 employees, we are one of the most important employers in the region – and one of the most attractive as well. We pay attention to equal opportunities and make it possible to reconcile work and family life. With us you will find space for your professional development. The canton's job market: http://www.stellen.bs.ch Here you will find all of our vacancies and with a job subscription you can be kept informed about new vacancies. The canton of Basel-Stadt on social media: https://www.facebook.com/Rathaus.Basel https://twitter.com/BaselStadt https://www.youtube.com/kantonbaselstadt https://www.instagram. com/kantonbaselstadt/

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