Universität St.Gallen
Dufourstrasse 40, 9000 St. Gallen, SG, Switzerland
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 clear naming conventions, folder structures, access rules, and...
