Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- IT, Software, Security
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Dusseldorf
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will build innovative data platforms in healthcare and develop AI-driven data pipeline systems while recruiting and leading the technical team.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- You build the technical platform of NHN, recruit, and lead the tech team.
- You develop our data platform, consisting of backend and frontend.
- You are building the AI-powered extraction, i.e., the pipelines that convert unstructured clinical documents into structured medical data. OCR, NLP, and modern language models are part of it, as well as review and approval by medical personnel. The quality of this pipeline determines the success of the entire project.
- You ensure interoperability by consistently adhering to standards such as FHIR, HL7, and IHE. This keeps our data compatible both nationally and internationally.
- You prioritize data protection and security from the outset: Privacy by Design, pseudonymization via an independent trustee, and preparation for ISO 27001. Our Head of Legal bears the regulatory responsibility, with whom you work closely.
- You make pragmatic technology decisions with a focus on robustness, auditability, and speed. You know which levers are costly to adjust later and which can be changed risk-free.
- You build the team, starting with the first developers and ML engineers, then the structure behind them. You involve external partners where they can make us faster without giving up control of the core components.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- You have designed and scaled complex data platforms, ideally in healthcare or another highly regulated environment such as FinTech or cybersecurity.
- You work exceptionally hands-on: Cloud-native software development and modern web technologies are as familiar to you as ML development and MLOps, including fine-tuning large transformer models.
- You have already built something from scratch, without an existing platform and without a large team behind you.
- You combine technical vision with pragmatic implementation and prioritize a roadmap so that something operational exists early on.
- Knowledge of interoperability standards and medical terminologies is a plus but not a must. The medical expertise comes from our medical team.
- You have very good German skills because our partners are German clinics.
- You want to make a societal contribution through technology.
Experience
- You have experience in building agile teams and maintaining the balance between in-house development and external partners.
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What we offer
- Work with real societal impact: The technology you build should be operational in over 60 clinics within two years.
- Secure environment, secured funding: As a subsidiary of the German Society for Cardiology (DGK), we stand on a reliable foundation.
- Our funding is secured for the long term.
- You get the growth dynamics of a young organization without the usual startup risk.
- Scope for design and perspective: You are responsible for the technical architecture from the outset and build up the area.
- The role is designed to grow with the NHN and with you.
- Fair Compensation: An appropriate, market-standard salary that corresponds to your qualifications and experience.
- A modern, easily accessible office in Düsseldorf - with short communication channels, flat hierarchies, and a respectful team environment in a small team.
- Mobile working is possible; regular presence with partners and stakeholders in Germany is expected.
- Full-time position, start by arrangement, preferably as soon as possible.
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About Your Employer
Nationale Herz-netz (nhn)
The National Heart Network (NHN) was established as a non-profit GmbH based in Düsseldorf. As a subsidiary of the German Society of Cardiology, it focuses on the collection and analysis of cardiovascular treatment data to improve the quality of care. NHN is engaged in the fields of health IT and medical research.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Industry
- Healthcare, Social Sector
Founding Engineer / Head of Technology
- Location
- Dusseldorf
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
