Senior Health Information Systems Officer (Software Developer) at University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Additional software development needs may arise occasionally, such as the development of mobile apps or interoperability layers between existing systems. As an integral part of the UCSF Global Programs team, and the lead HIS Officer in Kenya, the Senior HIS Developer will be expected to meet with stakeholders, funders and government officials, to discuss technical requirements and system specifications, and present progress on deliverables. In all of these activities, the Senior HIS Developer will liaise closely with the Senior Manager for Global Health Informatics who is based in San Francisco, as well as the UCSF Kenya-based Director of Strategic Information and various Technical Advisors and Programme Managers.
The incumbent will oversee a small team of Nairobi-based software developers and allocate time and resources as appropriate based on needs and requirements. An understanding of popular tools currently in the health sector such as ODK, DHIS2 and OpenMRS is considered an advantage

Specific Roles and Responsibilities

• Coordinate, prioritise and distribute informatics activities between various informatics hub team members
• Keep track of progress, organise weekly meetings to prioritise the work
• Promote collaboration with other members of the informatics hub (outside of Kenya), where appropriate
• Primary in-country liaison for the San Francisco-based health informatics team
• Collaborate with the UCSF team, stakeholders, government and donors to establish needs and requirements for any database or information system.
• In collaboration with others, determine the appropriate frameworks, tools and technologies to be used for implementing any database or information system, taking context, existing capacity and other guiding principles e.g. open source, already in use in the health sector, into account.
• Based on agreed specifications, oversee and contribute to the design, development and maintenance of SQL-based databases, primarily using open source tools such as MySQL and PostgreSQL; web-based dashboards and other websites, including web apps that summarise, display, visualise data and make datasets available for download and further analysis; and Android-based apps.
• Oversee and contribute to the development of output reports using popular reporting tools such as Jasper Reports that pre-analyse and visualise data, and allow other people
  to pull those reports online through a website/dashboard)
• Develop interfaces for interoperability to enable data syncing between databases
• Contribute to the development of SOPs, and subsequently implement and enforcement SOPs
• Collaborate and support team members in meeting expected outcomes

Qualifications and Experience

• An appropriate degree in computer science, information systems or software engineering with a focus on software development or equivalent degree.
• At least seven years of experience in developing information systems, ideally with a focus on health information systems, in popular languages such as JAVA, PHP or Python.
  Open-source languages are highly preferable. JAVA experience is required.
• At least 5 years of experience of working in the health sector in a public health discipline, such as epidemiology, biostatistics or M&E
• Demonstrable experience of at least 3 years working with databases and SQL, including writing SQL queries
• Working experience with software development and maintenance tools like Spring, Hibernate, JQuery, Subversion, Git, Restful web services, Agile methodology, Jasper
  server, Android SDK