Departmental IT Manager – 50%

About the job

Departmental IT Manager – 50%

• Full-time
• HUG contract type: Permanent contract
• Department: Directorate of Digital Transformation and AI

Company description

With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Geneva University Hospitals are a reference institution at the national and international level. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to consult our 2025 retrospective by clicking here.

The Directorate of Digital Transformation and Augmented Intelligence (DTN-AI) 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-AI manages an HR information system for the 13,000 employees of the HUG and the 7 other Geneva institutions.

The Oncology Department provides diagnostic and therapeutic care for adult patients suffering from cancer and supports patients and their relatives. The objective is to ensure access to the best anti-cancer treatment, offer adapted care and anticipate the needs of hospitalised patients (bone marrow transplant, cell therapy, immunotherapy, etc.), strengthen nursing and medical expertise and promote research and innovation.

The department comprises 4 services (haematology, oncology, precision oncology and radio-oncology) with around 300 employees involved in hospital and outpatient activities.

Job description

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 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 taking into account existing systems, organisation and the challenges of the DTN-AI and the institution.

With domain managers, you work cross-functionally with engineers, analysts and technicians of the DTN-AI service, and interface with suppliers and users of the IT system.

As a project manager, you bring your expertise to projects of various kinds.

For example, you establish 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): compliance with HUG standards, creation and maintenance of components and data exchange portals, development of system monitoring tools.

You implement IT aspects in projects involving relocation, 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 implementation of the organisation and working methods defined within the DTN-AI.

Additionally, you are responsible for level 2 and 3 user support, liaising with other DTN-AI services and/or solution vendors and participate in cross-functional studies within the DTN-AI.

You perform other tasks as requested by superiors and participate in coordination meetings within the domain, DTN-AI 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 kinds. Knowledge of project management methodologies such as HERMES or PMI is an asset.

You have solid knowledge of professions related to IT infrastructure broadly (network, security, servers, etc.). 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-AI teams, Web services (and Micro-services / API) and database knowledge (SQL Server, etc.) are advantages.

You demonstrate strong writing skills in French and are able to communicate professionally in English. Mastery of German is an asset.

Your interpersonal skills, innate sense of human contact and ability to technically supervise teams enable you to lead 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 running and technical follow-up of projects within deadlines and constraints. Finally, your stress resistance allows you to calmly face all unforeseen project events.

You are able to be available in exceptional situations or during busy activity phases.

In this role, you may 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 heterogeneous 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
• Activity rate: 50%
• Job grade: 20
• Contract: Permanent
• Application deadline: 15.06.2026
• Contact for information: stephane.geistlich@hug.ch

Your application must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, 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.

Wishing to engage in the fight against 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.