Sr. Knowledge Engineer
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As part of the larger Data, Analytics & Research function within Roche Information Solutions, you serve as a source of best practices/quality and work independently within broad guidelines and policies, needing guidance in only the most complex situations. You are responsible for leading substreams and/or you participate in cross-functional project teams to solve complex problems by using analytical thinking, tools and judgment to identify innovative solutions for Diagnostics. You seek feedback from all stakeholders and colleagues regularly and adapt your behavior quickly. You live the operating principles and follow the guidelines of making impact now and thinking long-term in your daily work.
As Sr. Knowledge Engineer, you have a specialized depth and/or breadth of knowledge of FAIR, (semantic) data interoperability, healthcare ontologies, data models, terminologies and standards across digital products and systems within Diagnostics. You develop new approaches to complex problems pertinent to interoperability and standardization in healthcare. As a result, you may influence others to change their point of view and you may lead them to solve the problem.
You will also be responsible for leading the design and implementation of the data assets to support the transactional operations and the massive data processing (Big Data) to support use cases in Roche Diagnostics. You will be in charge of improving and auditing the data architecture, carrying out data governance functions, so that FAIR and data quality standards are ensured.
Main Responsibilities
Responsible for the interoperability enablement of RIS product portfolio by reusing, designing, implementing and maintaining data models.
Make sure data models are robust, data access is available and the information is correctly stored to enable the clinical and diagnostic use cases across RIS product portfolio on the data platform.
Design and develop domain data models based on the HL7 FHIR interoperability standard.
Work with Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Data Scientists, System Architects, Product Owners, Product Managers and guide them with their data needs and requirements.
Collaborate with engineering and business teams and co-drive projects to implement interoperability standards for Roche devices and digital products adhering to FAIR principles.
Drive the adoption and integration of interoperability standards including terminological resources (e.g. FHIR, HL7v2, LOINC, SNOMED) for RIS digital products.
Drive automation of data and software services to achieve continuous delivery e.g. by setting up code repositories, automation pipelines, quality assurance, etc.
Support the transformation of the data models into clinical interfaces, choosing the proper clinical standard and terminology to use.
Who you are
University Degree in Computer Science / Engineering related fields, preferably PhD degree (such as Software Engineering, Architecture, Data Science, Mathematics, Bioinformatics or similar areas of academic discipline)
5+ years relevant experience and 2+ years of proven experience in data modeling, data architecting and databases storage design
Experience in HL7 / HL7 FHIR
Experience modeling healthcare interfaces using standards (HL7 v2.x, HL7 FHIR, DICOM)
Experience codifying clinical concepts with clinical terminologies (SNOMED CT, LOINC, UCUM, ICD9, ICD10)
Strong software engineering skills and various programming languages such as Python, Java. Any knowledge of frontend programming languages such as Typescript, Angular, etc. is a plus
Good understanding of SCRUM methodology
Experience working with GitLab, JIRA and Confluence
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