Data Engineer

We are looking for a Data Engineer who will participate in and learn from national and regional initiatives on health data platforms that improve health and healthcare, like CumuluZ and Health-RI. Will you join our team?

As a Data Engineer you will focus on further development of the OpenPlanet health data platform and data sharing with Radboudumc, on the definition, implementation and monitoring of processes and tools for cleaning, organizing, structuring, mapping and enriching a variety of data including healthcare and sensor-derived lifestyle data, with the vision to connect this data through our new OpenPlanet infrastructure and ensure FAIRness of this data.

You will be part of a multidisciplinary team within the Radboudumc Information Management department and led by the Radboudumc Chief Science Information Officer (CSIO), dr. Arnoud van der Maas, and interface with experts at Radboud University and Radboudumc. Your position will be held within team Data, which is part of the department of Information Management of the Radboudumc. Team Data consists of 12 people with different (highly specific) expertise, e.g., data integration specialists, data engineers and data scientists. All expertises mentioned require a certain amount of software developing skills. Team Data is responsible for the seamless integration of data exchange between task specific applications (interfaces), the reuse of data for multiple purposes and supplying the skills and consultancy with regard to data science initiatives within the Radboudumc.

You will contribute to initiatives aiming at data sharing outside the institution and at reusing existing healthcare data. You will have a central role in the data 'wrangling' (structuring, cleaning, enriching, validating, mapping and format transformation) process for data reuse, sharing and harmonization based on a set of standard data models and terminologies. You will help design and contribute to the labelling/annotation of the integrated data as needed.

In addition, you will collaborate in the design, development and local installation of OpenPlanet components enabling data sharing with Radboudumc and help with their testing in close collaboration with the OpenPlanet software development team. You will be a member of the central architecture team contributing to the integration of existing data sources and data platforms.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Connection between the OpenPlanet infrastructure and healthcare data at Radboudumc.
• Provide expertise and offer support in preparing data sources for downstream use.
• Work in multi-disciplinary teams from OnePlanet and Radboudumc and observe where interests can be aligned.
• Keep an eye out for opportunities and possibilities around data utilization and valorization.
• Contribute to OnePlanet communication (presentations, advising on the content of OnePlanet communication on data infrastructures).

We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all the requirements. We offer a collaborative, international environment with ample opportunities to develop your skills.

• MSc (PhD preferred) in a data engineering-related field (e.g., computer science, biomedical informatics).
• Demonstrated experience in Procedural Programming and Object Oriented Programming.
• Experience in data wrangling (data structuring, cleaning, enriching, validating, mapping and format transformation.
• Experience with healthcare data or background in medical informatics, bioinformatics, medicine, biology, or a similar life sciences education.
• Affinity with translational research, innovation and development in personalized and preventive health.
• Good ability to work in multi-partner collaborations.
• You can communicate effectively with people at various management levels.
• A very strong sense of integrity, ethics and sound moral compass are essential considering you will be working with personal data.
• Good oral and written communication skills in English and in Dutch are a must.

We will appoint a Data Engineer for 1 year. After 1 year, your performance will be evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, there is a possibility to extend the contract. Salary depends on knowledge and experience. The scaling will be in scale 10 (between min. € 3.047 and max. € 4.800) or in scale 11 (between min. € 4.080 and max. € 5.584) gross per month on the basis of full employment.

Working at Radboud university medical center means that you are ahead of the curve and working together on the healthcare of the future. And there is more. Our secondary terms of employment are impressive. These are fully tailored to you thanks to our Employment Conditions Selection Model. At Radboud university medical center, you will be given trust, and you will take the responsibility to handle everything together.

• An annual vacation allowance of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.
• If you work irregular hours, you will receive an allowance.
• As a full-time employee (36 hours per week), you are entitled to approximately 168 vacation hours (over 23 days) per year.
• Radboud university medical center pays 70% of the pension premium. You pay the rest of the premium with your gross salary.
• You get a discount on health insurance as well: you can take advantage of two group health insurance plans. UMC Zorgverzekering and CZ collectief.
• We provide annual courses, both professional and personal.

In addition to our terms of employment, we also offer employees various other attractive facilities, such as childcare and sports facilities. Want to learn more? Take a look at the CAO UMC.

Your position will be held within team Data, which is part of the department of Information Management of the Radboudumc. Team Data consists of 12 people with different (highly specific) expertise, data integration specialists, data engineers and data scientists. All expertises require a certain amount of software developing skills. Team Data is responsible for the seamless integration of data exchange between task specific applications (interfaces), the reuse of data for multiple purposes and supplying the skills and consultancy with regard to data science initiatives within the Radboudumc. And, last but not least, we enjoy each others company having an drink while attending (and preferably winning) a pub-quiz or other activities.

Department of Information Management
Developments within information technology (IT) are booming. This is also true for healthcare, research, education and business control. Themes such as e-health, network based medicine and remote work require much input from Information Management (IM). IM wants to be a frontrunner with respect to the development of an efficient and safe IT environment for hospital patients and employees. Furthermore we are involved in supplying state of the art and highly dynamic IT solutions for research, education and business control. Being both involved and creative, we truly want to contribute towards a better society. IM employees know what is expected from them while having the personal freedom and creativity to meet these expectations in their own way. We are IM and we are proud of it!

An efficient IM department is essential for healthcare, research, education and business control within the Radboudumc, thus contributing to the goal of our hospital, i.e., to have a significant impact on healthcare.

About OnePlanet
The OnePlanet Research Center is a multidisciplinary collaboration agreement between Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Radboud University (RU), Radboudumc and imec. We use the latest chip and digital technology to create a society in which everyone can live a healthy life and has access to good and sufficient food. We initiate groundbreaking, fundamental and applied research, revolutionary innovations and smart product development.

About OpenPlanet
OpenPlanet is an open and secure data and application environment in which data on sustainable agriculture, food and health is collected, analyzed and shared. OpenPlanet offers a solution for the current fragmentation of data and knowledge and allows combining data efficiently to provide insights and digital services. For more information, follow this link.

Radboudumc
Radboud university medical center is a university medical center for patient care, scientific research, and education in Nijmegen. Radboud university medical center strives to be at the forefront of shaping the healthcare of the future. We do this in a person-centered and innovative way, and in close collaboration with our network. We want to have a significant impact on healthcare. We want to improve with each passing day, continuously working towards better healthcare, research, and education. And gaining a better understanding of how diseases arise and how we can prevent, treat, and cure them, day in and day out. This way, every patient always receives the best healthcare, now and in the future. Because that is why we do what we do.

Read more about our strategy and what working at Radboud university medical center means. Our colleagues would be happy to tell you about it. #weareradboudumc