Vacancy: Coordinator Analysis - Architecture

Health-RI is a Dutch non-profit foundation, supporting a growing network of organizations to realize a national health data infrastructure for research and innovation. Health-RI has recently acquired significant government funding to establish a coordinated national data expertise and infrastructure network of FAIR-compliant regional nodes of organizations in healthcare and health research. Health-RI’s mission is to build an integrated health data research infrastructure accessible for researchers, citizens and care providers. Health-RI team facilitates and fosters the optimal use of knowledge, tools, facilities, health data and samples to enable data driven health research and to accelerate sustainable and affordable personalized medicine and health.

The architecture team of Health-RI strives to make observational health data from the Dutch clinical practice available for research and innovation in a structured and responsible manner including methods for data linkage with new and existing research study data and national registries. This ambition requires an integrated IT architecture which incorporates the FAIR principles and ethical & legal standards by design. The design and implementation of this architecture will be done in an agile manner involving a national network of stakeholders. The architecture team is not only responsible for the design, but also for the technical implementation in close collaboration with specific use cases supported by Health-RI.

Within Health-RI we have divided architecture into five areas of expertise. Three areas of expertise focus on making different types of data available – (1) Clinical data, (2) Imaging data and (3) Omics data; one area of expertise focuses on the Catalogue/ Portal, or making all types of health data discoverable and interpretable (4); and one area of expertise focuses on processing or (federated and centralized) analysis of all types of health data (5).

To support our Architecture team we are looking for an Coordinator concerning the fifth area of expertise: Analysis (0.5 – 1.0 fte).

Your role

You are responsible for the design and implementation of a consistent set of standards, processes and tools enabling data analysis capabilities across Health-RI nodes (federated as well as centralized in a secure project workspace). You are a coordinator and active participant of a nation-wide team who will jointly work on the design and implementation of the Health-RI data analysis capabilities and machine learning.

You will be a member of the central Health-RI architecture team overseeing the consistent design and implementation of all Health-RI infrastructure components. You maintain close contacts with the other Health-RI themes (FAIR data, ELSI, Services, Biobanking) to ensure close alignment with solutions developed in these themes. You will align with national health data collections that could be linked to the Health-RI data analysis environment, e.g. NKR, Palga, DICA, CBS, etc.

Your profile

You have at least an MSc, a PhD is preferred. We are looking for someone with experience on computer science education in a health context.

A background in medical informatics, bioinformatics, medicine, biology, or a similar life sciences would be desirable as well as domain expertise in federated and centralized analysis or machine learning in the health data domain and experience with data linkage and the underlying technical and ethical/legal challenges. (Technical) project management skills are present and you have experience with gathering and prioritization and able to translate those into formats digestible by software developers. Excellent oral and written communication skills in Dutch en English are a must. You are willing and able to travel the country to connect to all Health-RI nodes and other relevant stakeholders. A broad network in UMCs and international research infrastructures and national data registries would be desirable.

We offer

You will be appointed at Health-RI, offering a flexible working environment. We offer you a role in our team that leaves ample room for your personal growth, embedded in a national and international expert network. Our office in Utrecht serves as your basis, where we usually convene as a team on a regular basis. In general, working from home collaborating with online tools for part of your time is a natural practice in our organization.

We offer you an appointment for initially 1 year, with the intention to extend this as a permanent position. Health-RI has a 38 hour working week and participates in the ABP pension fund. Gross salary level is based on the Collective Labour Agreement NFU scale 11-13, depending on your education and work experience. In addition you will receive 8% holiday allowance and 8% end-year bonus, following the CLA NFU.

Please send your motivation letter and curriculum vitae to hr@health-ri.nl. The application period will close October 10, 2022. For more information, please contact niels.bolding@health-ri.nl.   

Note

Please also contact us, when you currently have an academical career and want to continue this in combination with your Health-RI appointment, or when you do not have a background in medical informatics, bioinformatics, medicine, biology, or a similar life sciences, but are interested to move into this direction.