Beschreibung
With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Geneva University Hospitals are a reference institution at both national and international levels. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to consult our 2025 retrospective by clicking here.
The Digital Transformation and Augmented Intelligence Directorate (DTN-IA) leads the digital transformation of the institution, in a context of enhanced data-driven management of hospital processes. It creates, integrates, and manages all IT applications of one of the most efficient hospital information systems to support the clinical and logistical activities of the Geneva University Hospitals. With a fleet of more than 13,500 workstations, 1,300 servers for over 250 applications serving all staff, available 24/7, the DTN-IA manages an HR information system for the 13,000 employees of the HUG and the 7 other Geneva institutions.
The Oncology Department is responsible for the diagnostic and therapeutic care of adult patients suffering from cancer and for supporting patients and their relatives. The objective is to ensure access to the best anti-cancer treatment, to offer appropriate care, and to anticipate the needs of hospitalised patients (bone marrow transplant, cell therapy, immunotherapy, etc.), to strengthen nursing and medical expertise, and to promote research and innovation.
The department comprises 4 services (haematology, oncology, precision oncology, and radio-oncology) with approximately 300 employees involved in both hospital and outpatient activities.
You are responsible for supporting the Oncology Department in its IT needs.
In a cross-functional engineering role, you design, research, and/or develop solutions enabling the rational, safe, and efficient use of IT resources, in collaboration with users.
You define service level agreements (SLAs) with application managers.
You are able to understand, evaluate new concepts, and monitor their evolution to meet needs.
You assess new requests considering existing systems, organisation, and the challenges of the DTN-IA and the institution.
With domain managers, you work cross-functionally with engineers, analysts, and technicians of the DTN-IA service, and interface with suppliers and users of the IT system.
As a project manager, you provide your expertise on projects of various natures.
For example, you prepare specifications, required requirements, and oversee implementation. You evaluate necessary resources, risks, and budgets, and establish the work schedule.
You implement and deploy internal or external IT solutions (applications, developed or commercial components, technology transfers): ensuring compliance with HUG standards, creating and maintaining components and data exchange portals, and developing system monitoring tools.
You implement IT aspects within projects involving relocations, creation of consultations inside or outside the hospital. You participate in projects for securing/standardising/migrating solutions and infrastructures identified as shadow IT and other IT projects.
For the department's IT solutions, you act as product manager by defining their roadmap and managing the product lifecycle.
You manage corrective, preventive, and evolutionary maintenance of applications under your responsibility.
You ensure the organisation and working methods defined within the DTN-IA are implemented.
Additionally, you are responsible for level 2 and 3 user support, liaising with other DTN-IA services and/or solution vendors, and participate in cross-functional studies within the DTN-IA.
You perform other tasks as requested by superiors and participate in coordination meetings within the domain, DTN-IA, and DONCO.
Qualifications
You hold a Master’s degree in computer science or an equivalent qualification.
You have proven experience in managing IT projects of various types. Knowledge of project management methodologies such as HERMES or PMI is an asset.
You possess solid knowledge of IT infrastructure-related professions broadly (network, security, servers…). You master the concepts of technical, functional, and organisational architecture of a large information system.
Proven IT expertise in the biomedical field is a plus.
Knowledge of common clinical tools within the medical department, application integration tools (EAI) – in connection with specialised DTN-IA teams, Web services (and Micro-services / API), and database knowledge (SQL Server, etc.) are advantages.
You demonstrate strong writing skills in French and can communicate professionally in English. Proficiency in German is an asset.
Your interpersonal skills, innate sense of human contact, and ability to technically lead teams enable you to facilitate teamwork in projects and monitor technical progress. You also ensure essential exchanges with other teams.
Your pragmatism, organisational skills, and solid project knowledge are definite assets to ensure smooth progress and technical follow-up of projects within deadlines and constraints. Finally, your stress resistance allows you to calmly face all unforeseen project challenges.
You are able to be available in exceptional situations or during busy activity phases.
In this role, you may need to travel to the Oncology Department and be confronted with the presence of patients, sometimes in emotionally challenging situations. You must have excellent relational skills with diverse audiences (doctors, nurses, technicians, IT specialists). A mindset ready to take on challenges in a demanding and highly technical environment is also required.
Additional Information
You mainly work daytime hours during the week, while being able to work night and weekend shifts for updates or maintenance. In the future, you will also participate in on-call duty.
- Start date: 01.08.2026
- Number of positions: 1
- Work rate: 50%
- Job grade: 20
- Contract: Permanent
- Application deadline: 15.06.2026
- Contact for information: stephane.geistlich@hug.ch
Your application must include a motivation letter, your CV, copies of diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last 2 work certificates.
This announcement is addressed equally to women and men.
Committed to fighting unemployment, the HUG encourage applications from the Cantonal Employment Office.
Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform will be considered. Paper and email applications will not be processed.