For the Human Subject Research (HSR) programme, we are developing tools for researchers working with human data. Various organizational units within the UG and the UMCG are working closely together on this. Our guiding principles are ‘data are FAIR’, ‘we reduce the administrative burden for the researcher’, and ‘we reuse what we have and what works’.

Within this programme is a vacancy for a Solution Architect. The successful candidate will use these guiding principles to create a total solution for the researchers. It is clear that the principles will sometimes clash and that compromise will be essential. The successful candidate will be the spider at the centre of the total solution web, which will eventually comprise over 30 partial solutions. The successful candidate will collaborate with the application architects and developers in the sub-projects, and ensure a maintainable total solution. The successful candidate will be the linking pin to the IT architects within the UG and the UMCG. He or she will be the natural discussion partner for researchers in different fields when explaining how the total solution will support good research, and will translate researchers’ wishes and requirements into a tailored plan and roadmap.

• experience as an architect in a large programme
• experience as an architect in merging existing building blocks into a total solution
• experience with process architecture
• experience with scientific and academic research.

Competences:
• strong communication skills, persuasive
• analytical, structured
• results-oriented, open to compromise
• experience with TOGAF or a comparable methodology.

Fixed-term contract: 12 months.

The University of Groningen is offering a salary based on qualifications and experience of between € 3,475 and € 4,757 gross per month (scale 11 Dutch Universities) for a full-time position. The appointment is in principle temporary, for a period of one year.

The University of Groningen has excellent secondary conditions of employment, including flexible working hours, an average of 29 vacation days a year and an end-of-year bonus.

Starting date: as soon as possible

Applications
You may apply for this position 28 June until 23.59h / before 29 June 2018 Dutch local time by means of the application form (click on "Apply" below on the advertisement on the university website).

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