Result of Service

The individual is expected to fulfill the following goals:

• Maintaining quality applications
• Designing and launching new features
• Maintaining code Integrity
• Delivering meticulous and well documented code
• Implementing security and data protections schemes in all its developed back and front end applications

Fulfilling assigned tasks as follows:

• Implementing agile processes depending on each project requirement
• Collaborating with Data Engineers in producing well maintained pipelines and sustainable frequent updates Work Location

UN-House ESCWA

Expected duration

6 Month w/ Ext.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the overall guidance of the Chief, ICTS, and direct supervision by the team leader, applications unit, the contractor will perform the following tasks:

• Help to design and implement the data crawling architecture and a large-scale crawling system
• Work on developing not just large-scale scraping tools and APIs but also data integrity, health and monitoring systems.
• Collaborate with our product and business teams to understand / anticipate requirements to strive for greater functionality and impact in our data gathering systems
• Design, implement, and maintain various components of our data infrastructure
• Any other related task as may be required or assigned by the supervisor

Qualifications/special skills

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related area is required.

All candidates must submit a copy of the required educational degree. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.
No previous work experience is required for this position.
Knowledge of Python for data wrangling and cleaning, SQL (MS SQL Server preferred, crawling & scraping using libraries such as Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, Selenium, extracting data from multiple disparate sources including web, pdf, and spreadsheets is required.

Languages

Languages English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat; and Arabic is a working language of ESCWA.

For this position, fluency in English is required. Knowledge of Arabic is desirable.

Note: “Fluency” equals a rating of ‘fluent’ in all four areas (speak, read, write, and understand) and “Knowledge of” equals a rating of ‘confident’ in two of the four areas.

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.