Location: Berlin
Other locations: Anywhere in Region
Date: 14 Apr 2025
Requisition ID: 1597236
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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 a technical expert, you ensure the feasibility, scalability, security, and performance of IT infrastructure. You will also identify IT solution requirements and design architectural blueprints for development team to follow. Additionally, you will 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 – skills and attributes for shaping the future
* 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 emerging technologies, understand how they apply to our healthcare clients and can drive their adoption into our projects.
* Good knowledge of (agile) project management standards, processes, procedures and guidelines as well as the related frameworks, e.g. Scrum or SAFe.
* Good understanding of software development.
* Be able to read and develop code in known programming languages, e.g. Java, C++, C#, Python, PHP.
What we look for
We are looking for an experienced IT Architect with strong technical skills and a proven track record working in a healthcare context.
What we offer you
At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.
Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.
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