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Healthcare IT: AI & Data specialisation. Something in-between Data Scientist and ML engineer but with a focus on healthcare, juridical (only health) and medical data.

1. PERSONALIA

  • Age: 33
  • Education: 1 Belgian Bachelor (unrelated field), 1 UK bachelor (related field) - working towards a master's degree
  • Work experience : 7 years
  • Civil status: married
  • Dependent people/children: 1

2. EMPLOYER PROFILE

  • Sector/Industry: Healthcare
  • Amount of employees: 6000
  • Multinational? No

3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS

  • Current job title: AI & Data Specialist
  • Job description: everything from statistic modeling, predictions up to designing and deploying full AI applications to aid the field
  • Seniority: 7 years + 3 in an unrelated field
  • Official hours/week : 38
  • Average real hours/week incl. overtime: 45-50
  • Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): flexible, however can be asked to be available between x and y hours due to working on critical applications
  • On-call duty: Yes, not at night
  • Vacation days/year: 21 + 12 ADV + 1-4 extra days (company wide and seniority days)

4. SALARY

  • Gross salary/month: 5.300
  • Net salary/month: 3.150
  • Netto compensation: 0
  • Mobility budget/car/bike/...: No, it's not generally done in healthcare companies
  • 13th month (full? partial?): 13 + 14 month at 0.92 rate of the base salary
  • Meal vouchers: 8€ / day
  • Ecocheques: 280€ / year
  • Group insurance: yes, 5% own contribution
  • Other insurances: Hospitalisation
  • Other benefits (bonuses, stocks options, ... ): except for a chocolate figure with Sinterklaas, none ;)

5. MOBILITY

  • City/region of work: Brussels
  • Distance home-work: 75km - 3.5 hours
  • How do you commute? Public transport
  • How is the travel home-work compensated: only public transport (afterwards) and bike
  • Telework days/week: 4days / week (officially), in general I am only 2-3 days per month at the office due to working with offshore teams

6. OTHER

  • How easily can you plan a day off: depends on the projects, time of the year and the on-call duty, in general for a day or two, fairly easy
  • Is your job stressful? Yes, high pressure environment with a lot of critical applications. Not a popular field for IT-profiles, so a huge shortage of competent profiles.
  • Responsible for personnel (reports): around 10 as a teamlead, and 3 also on the level of professional growth and career path

EDIT: typo

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