IT Architect for Digital Health projects (w/m/d) - Consulting

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You will be part of EY’s EMEIA-based Digital Health Excellence Center (DHEC). Our mission is to improve health outcomes and patient experience. As the DHEC, we bring our expert knowledge and delivery power to industry-leading healthcare providers in collaboration with the local firms.
 

The opportunity

As an IT architect, you will work alongside a team of international experts in technology, business and the healthcare industry. Integrated IT systems are crucial to facilitate the digital transformation in healthcare and a core capability of the DHEC. With you we want to further strengthen our technical expertise.
 

Your key responsibilities

As an IT architect, you are responsible for the integration of health technologies with other IT systems. Additionally, you will work together with near- and off-shore technical teams, vendors and external partners to ensure our tailored solutions for our healthcare clients are compliant with health regulations and standards. In your role, you will collaborate with clinical teams, administrators, and other healthcare professionals to prioritize and address health-specific IT requirements. As technical expert, you ensure the feasibility, scalability, security, and performance of IT infrastructure. You also identify IT solution requirements and design architectural blueprints for development team to follow. Additionally, you communicate requirements with other stakeholders like project managers, scrum masters, product owners, business analysts, developers and infrastructure or security architects, as well as provide training and support in business development. 
 

What you can contribute

 

• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills for both technical and business audiences.
• Proficiency in the local language of your country of residence is required.
• Fluency in English and German (written and verbal) is a pre-requisite. Knowledge of additional languages will be appreciated.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to work under tight timelines for multiple project deliveries in parallel.
• Ability/flexibility to travel.
   

To qualify for the role you must have

 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, (Software) Engineering or other related field with strong IT focus. Master's or further certification are advantageous.
• Minimum of 3 years of working experience as an IT architect, preferably 2 years in a healthcare context and with particular focus on designing and implementing large solution architectures in on premise and cloud platform environments. 
• Deep understanding of interdependencies between system-, application-, infrastructure- and security architectures and non-functional aspects, e.g. performance, scalability, reliability, availability.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing technical solutions on cloud architectures. preferably using MS Azure Cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities.
• Proven experience in writing technical concepts, database design and data modeling.
• Experience with CI/CD tech stacks, e.g. Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform.
• Experience in designing architectures in healthcare system landscapes and ensuring interoperability between healthcare-specific data formats, e.g. HL7/FHIR, OMOP, xDT, openEHR.
• Good knowledge of the German healthcare system landscapes and reference architectures at hospitals, service providers, and/or health insurance companies, e.g., TI, HIS, LIMS.

 

Ideally, you’ll also have

 

• A reliable network in the healthcare industry and a consulting track record.
• A good overview of industry technology trends and emergi