Data Aggregation & Curation Associate

2 Years ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Aggregation & Curation Associate will ensure operational excellence by supporting the Engineering team in collecting, organizing, and maintaining data from various job portals. This involves using company-provided tools to structure data from thousands of sources, including job boards, company websites, and government sources. The role requires maintaining accurate and up-to-date information, building and troubleshooting web scrapers, and adhering to Agile methodologies. The associate will report daily on JIRA and Confluence, and meet turnaround times, while abiding by Key Performance Indicators. The candidate should be able to demonstrate case studies of their work and follow the rules set by the company.

Must have:

Quick analysis of web data
Troubleshoot existing web scrapers
Meet turnaround time, not to breach SLAs
Ensure quality of annotated data
Follow the Agile methodology
Report in JIRA and Confluence daily

Good to have:

Knowledge of scripting
Good understanding with Excel

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Job Details

Our Data Aggregation & Curation Associate will work to ensure operational excellence for Lightcast, directly supporting our Engineering team. This role is regarded as the most important because it focuses on collecting, organizing, and maintaining data across the job portals using company-provided tools and sharing it in a structured format. Thereon, the Engineering team will ultimately bring the data together from thousands of job boards, company websites, online resumes, employee profiles, and traditional government sources into one place, and optimize the data for businesses to have access to the most robust and comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the labor market available accurately. A successful Data Aggregation & Curation Associate will be responsible for maintaining accurate, up-to-date, and useable information in our systems.

Major Responsibilities

Quick analysis of web data and its structure to build new scrapers
Troubleshoot existing web scraper to aggregate data from websites and APIs
Demonstrate case studies
Meet turnaround time, not to breach SLAs set up by internal/external customers
Ensure quality of annotated data
Follow the Agile methodology.
Report in JIRA and Confluence and wherever necessary on a daily basis
Follow Individual and Team Goals to abide by Key Performance Indicators

Experience and Education

Entry level Graduates with basic computer knowledge.
Knowledge of scripting
Attention to details and good interpersonal skills
Should be able to work in a team across shifts.
Good understanding with Excel is a plus
Must be able to quickly understand and self-learn in an ever-changing environment.

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Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with headquarters in Moscow (ID) and offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India. We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities.

Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.