Clinical Data Engineer for Health AI Pipelines

Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Jette; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Public transport reimbursement

Hospitalisation insurance

Learning via VUB LRN

Sports facilities

Campus meals

35 days leave

Job summary

Vrije Universiteit Brussel seeks a Data Engineer for clinical data to develop secure data and integration components connecting hospital registries with environmental and socioeconomic data. You will work with UZ Brussels ICT, supporting clinical teams and VUB data scientists.

The role focuses on building DataOps pipelines, REDCap integration, and contributing to a Digital Health Data Platform enabling dashboards, AI, and ML analytics, with privacy-preserving data handling and multidisciplinary

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a scientific IT-oriented field.
• Experience in Data Engineering and Data Ops.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with ETL/ELT environments; Data Warehouse/Data Lake.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure data services.
• Experience with REDCap and clinical data environments.
• Strong collaboration and communication with researchers and IT teams.
• Commitment to privacy and ethics.

Responsibilities

• Develop data-driven products from the Clinical Data Warehouse to AI applications.
• Build a DataOps framework for data pipelines end-to-end.
• Design and develop REDCap integration for secure data handling.
• Contribute to the VUB-UZ Brussel Digital Health Data Platform for dashboards and ML.
• Implement interfaces between REDCap and the BEE server with privacy-preserving data enrichment.
• Collaborate with researchers, clinicians, data managers and IT for deployment and adoption.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data Engineering

ETL/ELT

Azure data services

Data Warehouse

Data Lake

Docker

Git

Jenkins

Prefect

REDCap

Collaboration

Privacy & ethics

Education

Bachelor's degree in scientific IT-oriented field

Tools

Docker

Git

Jenkins

Prefect

REDCap

Azure

Data Warehouse

Job description

Vrije Universiteit Brussel seeks a Data Engineer for clinical data to develop secure data and integration components connecting hospital registries with environmental and socioeconomic data. You will work with UZ Brussels ICT, supporting clinical teams and VUB data scientists.

The role focuses on building DataOps pipelines, REDCap integration, and contributing to a Digital Health Data Platform enabling dashboards, AI, and ML analytics, with privacy-preserving data handling and multidisciplinary