IT- System Architect

The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute is the biggest institution for public health, international health and tropical medicine in Switzerland. The institute with over 700 employees delivers a sustainable contribution with its research, education and services to the improvement of health worldwide. The Swiss Centre for International Health (SCIH) is a leading provider of global health consulting and project implementation services. Our objective is to strengthen health systems and improve health service delivery – with a particular focus on low and middle income countries. One of the competencies of SCIH focuses on health informatics solutions. With our experience in developing and implementing digital applications, we are a WHO Collaborating Centre for eHealth Health Technology Management. As such, we provide policy guidance and contribute to capacity building in the fields of health informatics and appropriate health technologies.

 

Within our Health Technology and Telemedicine Unit in Basel we are seeking a highly motivated IT- Systems Architect (60-100%).

 

The IT-Systems Architect will provide guidance to the continued development of selected software applications driving key processes for health systems, e.g. health insurance management systems, clinical equipment management solutions or clinical decision support systems. The applicant will be in the center of the development and roll out of health information technology solutions with a focus of middle and low income countries.

Your position

 

• Support requirements engineering in collaboration with various project stakeholders
• Conceptual design of software architecture towards improved modularization, interoperability and usage of software standards
• Software design using best practice architecture patterns, data modeling and database design
• Software development as lead developer, including mentorship and supervision of developers
• Unit and Integration Testing
• Management of development infrastructure (e.g. source code repositories, development servers, etc.)
• Setting up processes for source code life cycle management (e.g. developers contributions, releases)
• Maintenance of technical documentation

 

Your profile

 

• Bachelor or Masters in Computer Science
• 8 to 10 years of experience in programming, algorithms, data modeling and database design
• Experience with modern web technologies
• Demonstrable experience in software architecture with portfolio of successfully designed and developed systems using modern architectural patterns (multitier, service-oriented, micro services, RESTful applications)
• Preferably with experience in system integration and designing solutions applying healthcare standards such as HL7 messages and HL7 FHIR
• Knowledge of software development processes, in particular agile methodologies
• Good communication and developer coaching skills
• You should enjoy to work in a team and to collaborate with people from various nationalities
• Can do mentality who wants to bring in own ideas

 

 

Start of employment: April 2018 or upon negotiation

 

There is no closing date for application, but we encourage applicants to submit their application as soon as possible. As long as the position is published on the website of Swiss TPH it is still vacant.

 

We look forward to receiving your online application with CV, motivation letter, and the names and contact information (email or phone) of 2-3 referees.

 

Note that we can only accept direct applications via our online recruiting tool.

 

Applications via email or from headhunters will not be considered.

 

Contact

For further information about the position, please visit our Website

https://www.swisstph.ch/en/