Senior Data Architect (Health & Life Science)

Welcome to Monstarlab Engineering 🔥

We are Monstarlab - a digital consultancy with engineering at the core 👩‍💻 We care a lot about delivering value to our clients and we strive to hit the sweet spot between moving fast and being a strategic partner ❤️.

What does this mean for you? On a daily basis, you will be taking a lot of ownership and will be deeply involved in shaping and delivering meaningful projects together with our teams and clients. You will be working with colleagues from all over the world, iterating and collaborating with designers, engineers, QA, delivery, and strategy across the four pillars of our organization: Tech, Data, Experience & Strategy. Monstarlab is a borderless company with offices in 30 cities around the world 🌎.

We believe that working at Monstarlab is a great opportunity to grow professionally, as you will get exposure to lots of brilliant-minded colleagues, as well as working on challenging projects across the world and within different industries 🚀

We love new technology, we enjoy sharing our knowledge, and contribute to open source. Don’t believe us? Check out our open source work and templates. We also have yearly conferences, MonstarHacks, and we like to share our work through our engineering blog 🙌

Data at Monstarlab 👩‍💻
Data is one of the four pillars defining Monstarlab. We work with data science, engineering, analytics and strategy across a broad selection of projects.

Working as a Data Architecture means you will be free to experiment and use the tools that excite you the most to work on a variety of problems for our growing portfolio of clients, especially in Health and Life Sciences. We do a lot of prototyping and interact closely with our clients to understand how data and solutions impact their business.

We often prototype locally before setting up infrastructure and moving the inference part of the pipeline to cloud environments mostly on AWS or GCP, depending on the client. Monstarlab’s data team is primarily a Python team, but we gladly welcome and nurture secondary languages such as Rust, C# or R.

What we are looking for 🕵️‍♀️

Within our data offerings, we’re now looking for the person to help steer our approach to Data Architecture (with an emphasis on Health and Life Sciences). We’re looking for someone who comes with a relevant engineering background and who is excited about having a diverse role that spans from hands-on delivery as well as strategic planning around how we grow in this area.

Responsibilities:
You’ll be involved in and responsible for these activities:

• Setting our direction for Data Architecture with an emphasis on Health and Life Sciences including defining our go-to tools, technologies and partners.
• Supporting in defining our propositions, enablers, go-to-market strategies and more.
• Working directly with clients and project teams to design, implement, release and maintain projects.
• Upskilling and supporting the internal team.
• Supporting internally on how Monstarlab can develop data standards to drive efficiencies and build the organization of the future.

Useful Skills:

These areas could be useful to you in being successful in the role:

• Previous experience working in a consultancy or agency including defining propositions and pitching to clients.
• Proven experience leading a team from both the perspectives of leading a capability area and managing others.
• Knowledge of data governance and security best practices.
• Thinking about how we test quality in each solution. Facilitating how we’ll test might be a core attribute of the solution
• Able to communicate effectively and pragmatically with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders and influence in the direction of the best solution where necessary

You’ll need to demonstrate knowledge of these areas to be effective in the role:

• Extensive experience in the development of data models.
• Experience specifically with Health and Life Sciences, with knowledge of international Health informatics specific standards (SNOMED CT, FHIR, OpenEHR, OMOP, EN ISO 13606 and EN ISO 13940).
• Deep understanding of enterprise data management lifecycle and in at least 2 data architecture areas - Governance, Security, Data Quality, MDM, API design and management.
• Experience in the implementation of data patterns, interoperability, APIs, Microservices, Metadata Management.
• Understand and apply concepts such as data ontology and entity resolution.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, Java or Scala.
• Strategic and solution-oriented mindset who can design and help deliver contextualized solutions to clients.
• Proven experience working on data engineering projects through the entire lifecycle going from idea to production and preferably maintenance (MLOps).
• Technical thinker who works at a project level to define requirements, but more than that you are proactive, enthusiastic and committed to delivering solutions that clients love.
• Beyond your hands-on experience, you will need solid experience in leading a team as well as commercial understanding and experience being part of pitching and selling projects, by doing validation, estimations, and communicating technical solutions. The ideal candidate will be able to ideate beyond the initial client directive in a way that helps drive effective decision making for the client.
• The candidate must be aware of industry best practice tools and leverage these effectively.

Working at Monstarlab 🎉
What does working at Monstarlab look like? Put in one sentence: Working at Monstarlab means delivering awesome projects, in trust-based relations with talented people who enjoy what they are doing. Trust is key in ensuring that we can deliver great work with our clients and that we can develop as an organization and individuals. You will be met with a high level of trust across the organization as we are confident that everyone is here to make a difference and to amplify their impact. We provide and request feedback as we believe that there is always potential for development and improvement, which helps us to grow personally and professionally 🚀

We believe having fun has a huge impact on you enjoying what you are doing every day. Both our informal culture, but also the multiple different events organized, are creating a fun work environment 🎉 Caring a great deal about a good work-life balance is of course also part of being a great place to work, so you can expect a great portion of flexibility and a focus on your wellbeing ❤️