Data Platform Engineer 80-100% — Universitätsspital Zürich (USZ)
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 3 days ago
Role overview
Actively shape the data and integration platforms of the University Hospital Zurich and create the technological basis for the digital hospital of the future.
In the Data & Integration Platform team, you develop and operate the Data Platform of Platforms (DPoP) and the Integration Platform, ensuring their secure, stable and scalable operation for data and API engineers. >The University Hospital Zurich is one of the largest hospitals in Switzerland.
Our more than 8,600 employees and around 700 trainees work every day for the well-being of our patients.
- Actively shape the data and integration platforms of the University Hospital Zurich and create the technological basis for the digital hospital of the future.
- In the Data & Integration Platform team, you develop and operate the Data Platform of Platforms (DPoP) and the Integration Platform, ensuring their secure, stable and scalable operation for data and API engineers. >The University Hospital Zurich is one of the largest hospitals in Switzerland.
- Building, operating and continuously developing the Data Platform of Platforms (DPoP) and Integration Platform (MuleSoft Anlypoint Platform) on a private VMware vSphere infrastructure
- Establishment, operation and further development of the DevSecOps stack and its integration into the platforms
Main responsibilities
- Building, operating and continuously developing the Data Platform of Platforms (DPoP) and Integration Platform (MuleSoft Anlypoint Platform) on a private VMware vSphere infrastructure
- Establishment, operation and further development of the DevSecOps stack and its integration into the platforms
- Further development of platform, deployment and operational processes with focus on automation, stability and scalability
- Ensuring platform security, performance, observability and service levels using modern DevOps and monitoring tools
- Close collaboration with Platform Engineers, Data Engineers, API Engineers and product teams as well as support for onboarding and the respective user groups Requirements
- University or university degree in computer science, business informatics, medical informatics or comparable training
- Several years of experience in setting up, operating and further developing data platforms, platform services or data-intensive infrastructures
- In-depth experience with SQL servers as well as in-depth knowledge of database operation, performance tuning and platform administration
- Experience with modern data stack and platform technologies such as Airflow, Trino/Starburst, Spark, DataHub, Power BI or comparable solutions
- Good knowledge of Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, CI/CD and DevOps tooling such as GitLab, ArgoCD, Vault, Grafana or Prometheus
Additional details
- Close collaboration with Platform Engineers, Data Engineers, API Engineers and product teams as well as support for onboarding and the respective user groups
- Structured, communicative and solution-oriented personality with a high level of personal responsibility and a pronounced awareness of quality and safety as well as familiarity with agile working methods Very good knowledge of German and English
Notes and original content
- Requirements
- Structured, communicative and solution-oriented personality with a high level of personal responsibility and a pronounced awareness of quality and safety as well as familiarity with agile working methods
- Very good knowledge of German and English
Questions about this listing
What salary does Universitätsspital Zürich (USZ) offer for this role?
Universitätsspital Zürich (USZ) lists CHF 73'500 - 111'500 gross per year for this position in Zürich. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Universitätsspital Zürich (USZ) offer?
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