Software Development Team Leader

Number of position: One

Duty station: ICAP Ethiopia SI office (Addis Ababa)

Job Summary:

The software development team leader will lead development/ enhancement of different software for patient monitoring, aggregate reporting, and HIV case-based surveillance.  He/she will follow health informatics project management principles, processes, techniques, and tools to ensure the application development and implementation meets specified quality standards. The software development team leader will lead data requirement specifications, adoption/development of standards and guidelines, software and related documentation development, data quality assurance and information use-related activities.

Duties and responsibilities:

·         Manage system/application selection, customization and/or development life cycles.

·         Select and implement appropriate software development technologies and methodologies /approaches.

·         Lead software development team of staff including programmers, system analysts, trainers and support specialists.

·         Guide team development efforts towards successful delivery of projects.

·         Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentoring.

·         Coordinate involvement of end users, domain area experts, and other stakeholders in the design, development and implementation process of the information system.

·         Manage development or adoption of standards to ensure interoperability of different health systems.

·         Involve in national efforts towards strengthening privacy and confidentiality of data, and application of health informatics ethics during production, storage, retrieval, processing and dissemination of health data

·         Design appropriate data backup mechanisms and disaster recovery plan; and coordinate its implementation at national and regional level

·         Maintain high standard of software quality within the team by establishing good practices.

·         Adhere to high-quality software development principles while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget. 

·  Package and support deployment of releases.    

·   Work with teammates in the migration of legacy applications to current technologies.

·  Develop, refine, and tune integrations between applications.

·  Analyze and resolve technical and application problems.

·  Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.

·  Complete performance reports regularly

·   Carry out other tasks as required

·         BSc degree or Master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field

·         More than 10 years of experience in software development of which three or more years directly working on health information systems, including HMIS, DHIS2, EMR or other patient monitoring systems.

·         Hands-on experience developing enterprise-grade software solutions using various technologies.

·         Two or more years of experience in managing/leading teams.

·         Demonstrable ability to provide technical and team leadership through coaching and mentorship.

·         Adequate knowledge in the area of the health sector’s transformation agendas, interventional programs, Information System-related issues, and enterprise architecture.

·         Demonstrable achievement in developing and delivering heath related information systems within time and budget.  

·  Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the heath system and health information systems in general and HIV-related information management including patient monitoring.

·  Ability to lead and produce results with a strong knowledge of results-based management.

·   Ability to organize information using the appropriate mode of presentation and style and to communicate effectively, illustrating the relevance of the information to the intended audience.

·  Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel, and PowerPoint.

·  Strong analytical, negotiation and communication skills, including ability to produce high-quality reports.

·  Experience with agile development methodologies including Kanban and Scrum

·  Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization

· Comprehensive understanding of object-oriented and service-oriented application development techniques and theories

· Strong oral and written skills in English and Amharic.