Research Software Engineer Bioinformatics - 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.

Health-RI strives to make observational health data available for research and innovation in a structured and responsible manner. This ambition requires an integrated IT architecture in which the FAIR principles and ethical & legal standards are incorporated by design. The design and implementation of this architecture will be done in an agile way with a national network of stakeholders.

Your role

You are part of a team that carries out various practice-driven projects/use cases in collaboration with expert working groups. Aspects from the target architecture are translated into a specific solution architecture and partial solutions are implemented, configured, integrated and managed, both independently and in collaboration with supplying parties and local ICT departments.

Your profile

We are looking for someone with computer science experience in a health context, preferably an MSc.

Preferable:

• background in medical informatics, bioinformatics, medicine, biology or similar life sciences;
• domain expertise in federated, centralized analytics or machine learning;
• experience with data linking and the underlying technical and ethical/legal challenges are desirable;
• (technical) project management skills (Agile and Scrum);
• experience with collecting and prioritizing requirements and translating them into concepts applicable to software developers.

In addition, excellent oral and written communication skills in Dutch and English are a must. You are willing and able to travel across the country to connect with all Health-RI nodes and other relevant stakeholders.

You have a broad skillset, with for example:

• programming languages commonly used for bioinformatics, Web applications, and rapid prototyping such as Java, Python, R, JavaScript;
• Linked Data technologies such as SPARQL, RDF, OWL;
• databases like MySQL, MongoDB;
• DevOps knowledge with, for example, Docker, Kubernetes;
• techniques and standards such as Fiware, Ishare, XACML, DCAT, CKAN, Flint, ODRL;
• the FAIR principles, Data architecture.

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 11-12, 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. For more information, please contact niels.bolding@health-ri.nl.

Note

Please also contact us, when you currently have an academic 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 similar life sciences, but are interested to move into this direction.