Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, June 02, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The University of Maryland Baltimore Global Health Initiatives through its operating arm Maryland Global Initiatives Corporation (MGIC) Kenya implements comprehensive HIV prevention, care and treatment programs to facilitate the Kenya Ministry of Health to control the spread of HIV and rapidly scale up HIV services, institute continuous quality improvement methods as well as the M & E infrastructure necessary to support these services.
Position: Regional Software Development Specialist - 5 Positions
Location: NAIROBI
Overall Description of the Position
Work as part of an agile team to design and implement new IT features and technologies. Deliver high quality and performance code in an agile environment. Use, evaluate and learn exciting new technologies that keep products and teams on the cutting edge. Provide technical direction and oversight for a single development project. Provide leadership to cross-functional teams. Lead the design, development, and maintenance of complex solutions with a focus on quality, performance and resiliency. .

Roles and Responsibilities
• Develop and routinely update all processes, standard operating procedures and documents for software management for the organization
• Create, Review & Approve Design, Solutions and Technical Design Documents (TDD)
• Participate in requirements analysis, design and test plan creations and test result verification
• Advise for production environment set up
• Breaking down large scale projects into manageable chunks
• Overseeing the work being done by other software engineers working on the team, coordinating team activities with other teams and product groups, maintaining software architecture standards
• Consistently defines and applies technologies, standards and software engineering practices, mentoring other team members
• Lead and Direct software engineering resources to ensure timely and quality delivery of services.
• Responsible for mentoring junior talent as well as directing technical staff through technical challenges, tasks and projects.
• Develop key product features within existing large-scale enterprise applications & new strategic initiatives.
• Participate in the full SDLC involving design, implementation, testing, and launching.
• Assist with the generation and analysis of business and functional requirements for proposed software solutions.
• Participate in and sometimes lead architectural and database design discussions as they relate to product direction.
• Generate data for project planning, including task breakdown and estimation of work for a project. Tracks status within the project as necessary. Raises long-term architecture issues within project
• Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application, and serve as a technical lead on small to midsize complex projects.
• Build software solutions where the problem is not well defined. Design and define the interaction between the other component pieces.
• Maintain and support software solutions post-production.
• Implements and debugs some of the more involved/complex functionality.

Specialized Knowledge:
• Experience with software development methodology and release processes
• Excellent knowledge of software and application design and architecture
• Familiarity with software configuration management tools, defect tracking tools and peer review
• Excellent knowledge of OS coding techniques, IP protocols, interfaces and hardware subsystems
• Possess different industries as a technical architect, from planning the structure of a large scale records database to the redesigning of a shop's e-commerce facility, to name a few
Skills:
• Experience in software development and coding in various languages (C#, .NET, Java etc.)
• Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework
• Possesses full working knowledge of technologies such as UNIX, Oracle, SQL Server and TCP/IP for example, as well as knowledge of one or more programming languages
• Ability to recognize the sensitivity to individual organizations needs and the impact on services of the introduction of IT solutions.

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a similar technical discipline
• 5 years systems development experience
• Successful full life-cycle implementation of a least 2 major projects

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Education Experience: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Kindly send your application that includes a Cover letter and an updated CV, saved as one document with your name, including names of three professional referees to MGIC_Recruitment@mgic.umaryland.edu on or before 15th June, 2020. Applicants are advised to include the position title “Regional Software Development Specialist” as the subject.
The University of Maryland is an equal opportunity employer. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

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