JOB DETAILS:

Position: Senior Programmer
No. of vacancies: (01)
Duty Station: Uganda National Public Health Laboratory services (UNHLS)

Job Purpose:

To design and implement systems interoperability and health information exchanges and data warehousing for data mining purposes for data based decision making

Duties and responsibilities:

• Plan and design the Architecture, develop and implement software programs to meet business requirements.
• Develop application code, modules and systems for business and technical requirements.
• Design information exchanges mediums and application programming interface for interoperability of several information systems
• Design and implement data marts for data warehousing and data mining
• Tune up design for maintainability, scalability and efficiency.
• Develop and implement programs, designs and codes.
• Coordinate and support technical staff, operations and vendors.
• Interact with users to determine their requirements and needs.
• Integrate best qualitative practices in design and development aspects of programs.
• Programs the computer by encoding project requirements in computer language;
• Confirms program operation by conducting tests; modifying program sequence and/or codes.
• Provides reference for use of prime and personal computers by writing and maintaining user documentation; maintaining a help desk.
• Maintains computer systems and programming guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.

Qualifications and requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Electrical with strong java, python and R language programming skills,
• Excellent at Analyzing Information, Problem Solving, Attention to Detail, Software Design, Debugging, Development, Documentation and Testing,

Interested candidates should submit their Application Letters detailing their experiences and skills, Curriculum Vitae, copies of relevant academic documents and 3 references online to:

The Human Resource Office,

African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET)

via Email: [email protected]

*ONLY successful candidates shall be contacted for an interview.

Closing Date : 10th July 2020