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Senior Software Engineer EHealth Project 2 year contract
2013-12-04 18:35:06| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Senior Software Engineer EHealth Project 2 year contract Ref SES0331 Region Europe Location Luxembourg Betzdorf Company SES Category IT Software Development Position Staff Context The Techcom Services Engineering team as a need for extra resources in the field of Software Engineering focussing on an exciting EHealth Project. The contract duration will be 2 years. The Senior Software Engineer EHealth Project is directly responsible for the specification, design, implementation, validation and verification of the software systems and networking facilities required for implementing of the worldwide satellite based ehealth and elearning systems. About the EHealth Project The EHealth tool will be designed as an extension of emergency.lu which is a multilayer platform for the international humanitarian community. As such this tool will be an ICT tool for development with the overall goal to improve public health in developing and emerging countries. More specifically, the EHealth Tool will provide the basis for three major elements of global health Human resources It will provide modern communication tools that are adapted to medical education and training. Therefore, it will help connecting medical doctors and personnel from developing countries to their colleagues in developed countries and thus facilitate the dissemination of qualified medical knowledge, e.g. by hospital partnerships like ESTHER or other initiatives. Infrastructure The EHealth tool will give easy access to IT infrastructure anywhere worldwide, including remote areas. Infrastructure components comprise electronic patient records and picture archive and communication systems. The cloud computing principle will permit a fully scalable use of the infrastructure from small isolated health care facilities to larger hospitals, hospital chains or national medical networks Interoperability It will be created as a multilayer platform that enables to integrate different eHealth tools. Currently existing eHealth applications are strongly fragmented and heterogeneous. Creating an architecture that allows the integration and interoperability between different eHealth solutions will be therefore one of the priorities of the tool. The objective of the EHealth tool is not to pursue the creation of allpurpose monolithic application, but rather to establish the framework and integrate the first application that will allow medical doctors to use familiar tools that are best suited to their needs. Responsibilities Specify, design, evaluate, implement and test software and networking infrastructure required to support satellite ehealth and elearning Procure equipment, software and services necessary to build the infrastructure at customer premises and manage shipment Supervise specification, design, and development work necessary for project implementation, including project control functions Work closely with health and educational governmental and nongovernmental organizations on project implementations Design and implement softwarecomputer infrastructure andor modifications to comply with specific customer requirements such as their standards, interfaces and software and hardware technologies Evaluate Open Source and commercial applications and provide strategic recommendations regarding implementation and adoption strategy Travel internationally to meet partners and customers and assist system deployments in developing countries in 2015 Additionally Provide support to Sales department for the presales activities presales engineering Followup technology development in the field and make recommendations to management regarding evolution of SES TechCom services and products Provide technical recommendations and expertise to the management in the area of networking, communication protocols and network management Experience Qualifications University degree or equivalent technical college with pertinent professional experience in telecommunications andor computer science Minimum of 710 years experience in engineering of large, reliable, distributed client server applications and communication protocols. Excellent knowledge of software specification, design, implementation, verification and validation Excellent understanding of Service Oriented Architectures and in particular JBOSS Excellent programming skills in Java and scripting languages Python, Ruby, etc Sound knowledge of software and system engineering methodologies using UML Sound knowledge of database management systems in particular PostgreSQL Sound knowledge of network design, deployment and operations Sound knowledge of Open Source development and cooperation models Knowledge of software practices and standards such as ITIL Knowledge of the satellite RF technologies and satellite based communication Knowledge of ehealth standards for electronic patient records and data exchange would be considered as advantage Languages English, any other languages are an asset Personal skills communication skills, analytical sense, coordination and priority setting facilities, problem perception, assessment and solving, autonomy and team work, flexibility and mobility. Readiness to travel Our Offer Competitive salary A work within an dynamic and exciting industry SES is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. This position reports to The Senior Manager, Platform Solutions Apply for this Job online
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