Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Senior Front-End (ReactJS) OpenMRS Developer

Roles & Responsibilities:
• Work with and direct HIS business analysts and developers to design software solutions by studying information needs; systems flow, data usage, and work processes while adhering to the software development lifecycle
• Managing and juggling multiple deadlines and priorities, while also successfully setting scopes of work and tasks for main development teams
• Liaising with high level leadership from CDC/PEPFAR/MOH/NGOs to set priorities, agendas, and scopes of work
• Support the development of an integrations and interoperability between OHRI and other systems such as LIS and CBS
• Work with and direct HIS business analysts, developers, and IT support staff to support the piloting, rollout and maintenance of HIS systems in public health facilities.
• Work with and direct HIS business analysts and developers to investigate, analyse and make recommendations to management regarding technology improvements, upgrades and modifications
• Work with and direct HIS business analysts and project managers to analyse user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Develop and direct software system testing and validation procedures, programming and documentation
• Work with and direct HIS business analysts and developers to prepare reference materials for end and technical users by writing operating instructions, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
• Undertake such other tasks within the scope of the role as directed by leadership from time to time.
• Develop OHRI program workflows from data collection forms, clinical dashboards with decision support summaries, monitoring and clinical reports

Required knowledge, skills and abilities:
• A minimum of 2 years of experience as a ReactJS software developer or engineer; with 5 years of OpenMRS development experience and demonstrable leadership in developing a variety of software systems and managing teams of OpenMRS developers while taking on increasing responsibility for analysis, design, implementation and development tasks [reference required], or comparable timelines.
• Ability to meet deadlines against multiple priorities and schedules, as well as the ability to manage scope creep and immediately alert leadership of issues with budgeting or timelines
• Ability to speak to high level leadership who may need technical descriptions and developments translated to ease understanding and acceptance
• Advanced experience in developing data-driven applications utilizing significant relational database engines as part of the overall application architecture (experience with any or all of the following highly desirable: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, H2 SQL)
• Working experience using Spring, Hibernate, JQuery, Subversion, Liquibase, Git, Restful web services, Agile methodology, Maven, React
• Advanced knowledge and demonstrable skill with popular open source programming languages (must include JAVA and JavaScript)
• Proficiency developing and troubleshooting complex software systems that run in mixed-environments including Linux, Unix and/or Windows on desktop, server, tablet, and mobile systems
• Experience with ReactJS and Micro-frontends based architectures
• Proven experience in leadership of informatics teams while coordinating among multiple stakeholders and funders

Qualifications and Experience:
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science and software engineering and Information systems with a minimum of ten years’ experience in software development or working with health information systems.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Qualified Kenyan nationals are encouraged to apply.
All applicants must address each selection criterion detailed in the minimum requirements above with specific and comprehensive information supporting each item. All applications must include the following:
Cover letter
Current CV with names and telephone numbers for three referees
Applications should be sent by email to HR.Kenya@ucglobalprograms.org  with the email subject, Senior Front End OpenMRS Developerby Friday, October 7, 2022


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