We are looking for an IT Architect 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. Your focus will be on further development of the OpenPlanet health data platform and data sharing with Radboudumc, on the definition, development, implementation and monitoring of processes and tools for secure exchange of 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 the multidisciplinary Radboudumc Information Management Architecture, Compliance and Security team and interface with experts at Radboudumc as well as Radboud University. Especially iHub, an innovation team which developed a world leading security technology PEP. You will contribute to initiatives aiming at data sharing outside the institution and at reusing existing healthcare data. You will be responsible for the specification and implementation of the technical requirements and security standards to enable data sharing based on a set of standard data models and terminologies.

In addition, you will collaborate in the design, development and local installation of OpenPlanet components enabling data sharing with Radboudumc and oversee their testing in close collaboration with the OnePlanet 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

• Provide expertise and offer support in secure and privacy-preserving data sharing.
• 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).

You are a IT Architect with a MSc (PhD preferred) in a data science-related topic (e.g., computer science, biomedical informatics) and affinity with translational research, innovation and development in personalized and preventive health. It is essential that you have a very strong sense of integrity, ethics and sound moral compassl considering you will be working with personal data.

Furthermore:

• Demonstrated experience in software development for cloud-based and service-based architectures.
• Experience in network engineering for cloud-based and service-based architectures.
• Architectural experience dealing with high volume data environments, their storage, retrieval, transformation and transfer while ensuring security and privacy.
• Good ability to work in multi-partner collaborations.
• You can communicate effectively with people at various management levels and executive sensitivity Internal and external networking and diplomatic skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and in Dutch are a must.

Fixed-term contract: 1 year with a possible extension.

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.

• A gross monthly salary between € 5.249 and € 6.717 (scale 12) based on full-time employment.
• 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.

Radboudumc

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.

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. OpenPlanet offers users the possibility to share data across application domains and enrich this data towards end-user applications. The OpenPlanet platform consists of applications for data collection (sensors, apps, links with various data sources), data connectivity (sensor network, digital infrastructure), data storage and analysis (AI, digital twins), a marketplace for algorithms and applications for action perspective, support and feedback to end users (apps, dashboards).

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