Technical Lead for the "Health + Life Science Alliance Data Space"
Kennziffer: 2025-0229
- Heidelberg
- Full-time
- German Human Genome-Phenome Archive
„Forschen für ein Leben ohne Krebs“ – das ist unsere Aufgabe am Deutschen Krebsforschungszentrum. Wir erforschen, wie Krebs entsteht, erfassen Krebsrisikofaktoren und suchen nach neuen Strategien, die verhindern, dass Menschen an Krebs erkranken. Wir entwickeln neue Methoden, mit denen Tumore präziser diagnostiziert und Krebspatient:innen erfolgreicher behandelt werden können. Jeder Beitrag zählt – ob in der Forschung, in der Administration oder der Infrastruktur. Das macht unsere tägliche Arbeit so bedeutungsvoll und spannend.
The German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) in Heidelberg is Germany’s largest biomedical research institution. Within the thriving biomedical research hub of the Rhine-Neckar region, the DKFZ is contributing to the "Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim" promoting research and innovation through synergy by bridging world-leading life science and biomedical research institutions and by bringing together a highly diverse range of disciplines and a cluster of top researchers. Heidelberg University with its faculties of Medicine, Biosciences, and Engineering Sciences, the University Hospital Heidelberg and the University Hospital Mannheim, the German Cancer Research Center, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, and the Central Institute for Mental Health have the common goal to develop the Rhine-Neckar region into a world-leading innovation cluster by supporting cutting-edge research and promoting transfer of knowledge into new diagnostics and therapeutics.
Within the Alliance, we are building the “Health + Life Science Alliance Data Space” as an inter-institutional data space to facilitate data sharing, joint data analyses, and seamless integration with existing projects and data ecosystems with the ultimate aim to enable research in medicine in life sciences. Our platform will empower researchers to collaborate across institutions, utilizing cloud and on-premise computing and storage resources to drive scientific innovation.
To strengthen our team, we are seeking for the next possible date a
Role Overview:
We are seeking a technical lead to guide the design, development, and integration of the Health and Life Science Alliance Data Space platform. As a senior member of the team, you will oversee the architecture and technical direction of the compute infrastructure and web applications. You will work closely with developers, engineers, domain experts, and institutional stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of a robust, secure, and scalable system that supports cutting-edge biomedical research.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and maintain the overall system architecture, ensuring alignment with project objectives and interoperability requirements
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across cloud, frontend, and backend development efforts
- Mentor engineers and developers while promoting best practices in software design, cloud architecture, security, and DevOps
- Coordinate integration of AWS-based systems with on-premise infrastructure
- Ensure compliance with privacy, security, and regulatory standards for handling sensitive research data
- Lead technical decision-making and solution design across the development lifecycle
- Collaborate with the project manager and product owners to align timelines, resource allocation, and deliverables
Your profile:
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
- Proven experience in technical leadership roles on cloud-native or distributed system projects
- Deep understanding of AWS services and architectures (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC, EKS)
- Proficiency in designing APIs and scalable system architectures
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React) and backend technologies (e.g., Python, Node.js)
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with hybrid cloud environments and integrating on-premise resources with cloud services
- Familiarity with privacy regulations like GDPR and security protocols in health/life science domains
- Background in interdisciplinary research or academic technology platforms
- Experience leading distributed and cross-functional team
Unser Angebot:
- Hervorragende Rahmenbedingungen: modernste state-of-the-art Infrastruktur und Möglichkeit zum internationalen Austausch auf Spitzenniveau
- 30 Tage Urlaub
- Flexible Arbeitszeiten
- Vergütung nach TV-L inkl. betrieblicher Altersvorsorge und vermögenswirksamer Leistungen
- Möglichkeit zur mobilen Arbeit und Teilzeitarbeit
- Familienfreundliches Arbeitsumfeld
- Nachhaltig zur Arbeit: Vergünstigtes Deutschland-Jobticket
- Entfalten Sie Ihr volles Potenzial: gezielte Angebote für Ihre persönliche Entwicklung fördern Ihre Talente
- Unser betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement bietet ein ganzheitliches Angebot für Ihr Wohlbefinden
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