Data & Reporting Specialist (FAP-BC-DL-2026-203-GRAE) — CERN
- Location
- Genève
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Yesterday
Role overview
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!
- 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?
- Your responsibilities:
- Extract, transform, model, and visualise data in reports, dashboards, and analytics platforms;
- Data Analysis & Reporting:
- Experience in SQL (writing, optimising, debugging complex queries).
Main responsibilities
- 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.
Key requirements
- 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.
Application process
- 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.
- Job closing date: 30.08.2026 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:
Company and context
- 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 5266-5793 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.
- At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, we are pushing the frontiers of science and technology.
Additional details
- 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.
- Experience analysing data structures, flows, and dependencies in complex enterprise systems.
- Interest in maintaining and modernising reporting and data solutions during a systems transformation. Business Processes & User Support:
- Awareness of Finance and Procurement processes or interest in learning about business domains.
- Experience working in group projects, ideally in collaborative or Agile environments.
- Ability to understand and document complex data structures, data flows, dependencies, and transformation logic. Data Governance & Quality:
- Attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy. Technical Environment:
- Comfortable in working with both new and legacy systems. Communication & Collaboration:
- Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French. Eligibility criteria:
- 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:
Notes and original content
- Your profile:
- Data Engineering:
- Interest in maintaining and modernising reporting and data solutions during a systems transformation.
- Business Processes & User Support:
- Collaboration:
- Data & Analytics:
- Ability to understand and document complex data structures, data flows, dependencies, and transformation logic.
- Data Governance & Quality:
- Attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
- Technical Environment:
Questions about this listing
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