About this role
In the European research project CEADS (Common European Agricultural Data Space) we are building the technical infrastructure for a federated agricultural data space. Fraunhofer IESE is responsible for the technical architecture and the reference implementation. Data spaces are infrastructures that let organisations exchange data without giving up control over it: who may access which data under which conditions is enforced technically rather than only agreed contractually. The technical basis is the Dataspace Protocol (DSP) and the Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC) — an open Java ecosystem that is currently the European reference for data space connectors.
Be part of change
You will build and run the CEADS data space demonstrator: a permanently running reference environment in which several participants actually exchange data with each other. The demonstrator is how we show that the architecture works — to project partners, to the Commission, and to ourselves.
What comes up in practice changes as the environment grows. Typical tasks:
- Setting up, operating and automating the deployment so that partners can rebuild it without our help
- Configuring and extending the connectors for new exchange scenarios
- Sample data and small applications that act as data providers and consumers against the environment
- Documentation that others can follow, so that procedures stay repeatable
- Debugging a distributed system in which several components interact
Where your focus ends up depends in part on what suits you and what you enjoy.