Uganda: Senior Programmer - Interoperability, CDC Uganda

For the past 50 years, we have been making Positive Impact possible. With a team of more than 2,500 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of more than 35,000 technical experts, Palladium has improved - and is committed to continuing to improve - economies, societies and most importantly, people's lives.

Palladium is a child-safe organisation, and screens applicants for suitability to work with children. We also provide equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status. Palladium seeks to recruit a well-qualified Senior Programmer with experience in health information system interoperability to support the Procurement and Supply Chain Strengthening Project II (PSSP II) in Uganda. Under PSSP II, Palladium will provide technical assistance and programming support to Medical Access Uganda for improved data collection and system integration in support of Uganda's health supply chain. By integrating data sources and improving the quality, accessibility, and use of data, PSSP II will contribute to improving healthcare quality in Uganda and the information available for decision-making within the supply chain. The Senior Programmer will provide informatics, system design and programming expertise for the PSSP II Project in Uganda, with a specific focus on the following:

• Systems integration/interoperability;
• Systems architecture and/or deployment;
• QA/QI;

• Dashboards and data visualization

  Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Apply technical skills, standards and innovation to carry out project activities

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of technical solutions for integrating, analyzing and reporting clinical data.

• Link SAP-MIRP to facility inventory management system for greater visibility and decision making.

• Oversee development of the Web-based Commodity Ordering System (WCOS) linked to SMS mobile technology to support remote sites without internet.

• Embed an automated alert system in MAUL's SAP-MIRP system to alert facilities via email about certain events, such as inventory that falls below the designated threshold.

• Responsible for architecting software products and other applications as required, estimating development efforts, delegating development tasks, and following software development best practices.

• Hold agile team reviews for software design components including coding, code documentation, unit testing, and debugging.

• Build the capacity of MOH and MAUL to develop facility-level dashboards to serve as a supply chain management tool and feedback loop.

• Solve complex technical problems that arise throughout the project using creative and results-oriented outside the box thinking.

• Participate in coding and other development tasks.

• Provide mentoring to less-experienced coding staff.

• Participate in program evaluation and any other activities as assigned by M&E Officer

• At least six years' professional experience in health informatics and/or software development.

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent (Advanced Degree preferred; relevant experience may be substituted).

• Ability to take direction to iteratively define and implement solution as requirements are being identified and finalized.

• Hands-on knowledge of Python, Java, Xforms, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), and Clojure.

• Experience with developing API and web services.

• Experience in reverse engineering and creating requirements documents for an existing system (as is scenario) by reviewing any type of software code.

• Experience performing systems analysis for systems that cross multiple components and impact multiple systems.

• Experience with front- and back-end web-based applications and familiar with various web service technologies.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills.

  Desired Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies:

• Experience with Health IT, specifically Health Information Exchange and interoperability standards (e.g., IHE, HL7, OASIS, X12).

• Experience with open source and enterprise database solutions such as DHIS2, iHRIS, OpenMRS, CommCare, OpenLMIS, RapidPro, MySQL, Oracle.

• Experience with distributed version control systems, specifically Git and GitHub.

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