Research Software Engineer Imaging - 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 this team you will be the linking pin between the imaging, portal and analysis working groups. In addition, you will take part in an ambitious European project EUCAIM (European Cancer Imaging initiative funded by Digital Europe) involving >70 partners with the joint vision to accelerate research into cancer by building infrastructure for data management, data sharing, and analysis with artificial intelligence (AI) methods. 

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 image analysis and machine learning experience in a health context, preferably someone with a PhD degree or an experienced research software engineer with MSc level. 

You have a relevant background and experience, including: 

• PhD level or MSc level with several years of working experience as a research software engineer; 
• background in medical image analysis, computer science, biomedical engineering, physics, medical informatics or similar; 
• good communication/reporting/project-management skills; 
• experience with and appetite for implementation/programming; 
• preferably domain expertise in XNAT and/or imaging (meta)data; 
• preferably domain expertise in federated and centralized 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 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, and occasionally travel to European project meetings and collaboration partners. 

You have a broad skillset, with for example: 

• programming languages commonly used for medical image analysis, machine learning such as Python, R;  
• techniques and standards such as DCAT, DICOM, BIDS;  
• DevOps knowledge with, for example, Docker, Kubernetes;  
• 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. 

What do we offer?

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 10-11, depending on your education and work experience. In addition, you will receive 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% 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 academical career and want to continue this in combination with your Health-RI appointment.