Data & Reporting Specialist (FAP-BC-DL-2026-203-GRAE)

Employment Type: Full-time
• Compensation: CHF 5266 - CHF 5793 - monthly

Are you passionate about data, problem-solving, and turning complex information into clear insights? Do you enjoy maintaining and improving data systems, from legacy databases to modern reporting platforms? Join our agile, self-organised team of engineers to help maintain and develop CERN's Corporate Information Systems! Take Part! You'll be part of the Business Computing ( BC ) group, supporting Finance and Procurement.

Your mission: analyse, improve, and help modernise reporting and data solutions, while supporting the transformation of CERN's enterprise systems and ensuring that future analytics needs are properly understood and addressed.

Your responsibilities:

• Extract, transform, model, and visualise data in reports, dashboards, and analytics platforms;
• Interact with relational databases, mainly Oracle, using SQL and PL/SQL;
• Develop, maintain, and test reporting data models and semantic models supporting CERN's Finance and Procurement systems;
• Maintain, support, and enhance existing reporting and data solutions while helping define and implement their future evolution;
• Contribute to data profiling, mapping, quality checks, validation, and reconciliation activities during migration and transition phases;
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of ETL/ELT pipelines and other data-processing activities where required;
• Collaborate with business users, functional experts, architects, and developers to ensure data consistency, usability, and technical feasibility;
• Support testing, troubleshooting, documentation, maintenance, and third-level support for reporting and data solutions.

Your profile:
Data Analysis & Reporting:

• Experience in SQL (writing, optimising, debugging complex queries).
• Familiarity with data visualisation or analytics tools such as Power BI, R, or Python-based dashboards.
• Understanding of data modelling principles (dimensional/star schema design, semantic models, data warehouses).
• Experience analysing data structures, flows, and dependencies in complex enterprise systems.

Data Engineering:

• Exposure to data pipeline concepts and tools such as SQL, dbt, Airflow, or Python for data processing.
• Interest in maintaining and modernising reporting and data solutions during a systems transformation.

Business Processes & User Support:

• Interest in providing end-user support, troubleshooting, escalation, and issue resolution.
• Awareness of Finance and Procurement processes or interest in learning about business domains.

Collaboration:

• Experience working in group projects, ideally in collaborative or Agile environments.

Skills:
Data & Analytics:

• Excellent knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
• Knowledge of data visualisation and analytics tools, particularly Power BI.
• Ability to contribute to the design and maintenance of data models for reporting and analytics.
• Ability to understand and document complex data structures, data flows, dependencies, and transformation logic.

Data Governance & Quality:

• Awareness of data quality, security, and governance concepts.
• Attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.

Technical Environment:

• Knowledge of version control systems and basic interaction with Linux servers via the command line.
• Knowledge of Agile practices and experience maintaining reporting solutions and data pipelines in an agile environment.
• Comfortable in working with both new and legacy systems.

Communication & Collaboration:

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to present complex information effectively.
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State .
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Computer Science (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is either a Bachelor's or Master's degree .
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Applicants without University degree are not eligible.
• Applicants with a PhD are not eligible.

Additional Information
Job closing date: Se telefonnummer på studerendeonline.dk at 23:59 CEST.
Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Job flexibility: Hybrid

Target start date: 01-November-2026

This position involves:

• Work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organization.

Job reference: FAP-BC-DL-2026-203-GRAE

Field of work: Data Science & Data Analytics

Benchmark job: 200020 - Computing Engineer

Global Benefits

• A monthly stipend between Se telefonnummer på studerendeonline.dk Swiss Francs per month (tax free) depending on your degree.
• 30 days of paid leave per year plus 2 weeks annual closure.
• Coverage by CERN’s comprehensive health insurance scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Family, child and infant monthly allowances depending on your individual circumstances.
• A relocation package (installation grant and travel expenses) depending on your individual circumstances.
• Possibility to extend your contract up to 36 months.
• On-the-job and formal training including language classes.

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