ICT Officer at Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board

The ICT Officer will be reporting to the Manager, ICT Department.

Responsibilities

• Conduct feasibility studies and cost-benefit analysis, including the choice of application architecture and framework, leading to the budget and schedule for the project design;
• Identify technology limitations and deficiencies in existing systems and associated processes, procedures and methods;
• Participate in software product definition, requirement analysis, including business case or gap analysis specification, requirements analysis;
• Providing advice, guidance and expertise in developing proposals and strategies for software design activities such as financial evaluation and costing for recommending software purchases and upgrade;
• Test, debug, diagnose and rectify errors and faults in computers applications within established testing protocols, guidelines and quality standards to ensure programs and applications perform to specification;
• Gather feedback from stakeholders to improve application quality and reduce operational risk of the developed application;
• Participate in software release and post-release activities, including support for product launch and competitive analysis for subsequent product build/release cycles and maintenance;

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences /Information Technology or its equivalent from accredited and recognized University.
• Must have served as ICT Officer for at least 2-3 years and gained relevant work experience as a software developer.
• At least three (3) years relevant work experience in ICT as database administrator using RDBMS concepts i.e. Oracle, Microsoft SQL, MSQL, etc.
• Must have knowledge of database development methods, techniques and requirements.
• Certification in Oracle, MySQL or SQL Server RDBMS will be an added advantage. Database Certification, Microsoft or Oracle;
• Must have competence in mobile programming languages.
• Sound web design skills, which include the ability to work with Web Content Management Systems (WCMs) and databases.
• A working knowledge of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques.
• Demonstrated experience working with ERP systems
• Proficient in Microsoft Active Directory as implemented in Microsoft Windows Server 2012, and implementing multi-forest relationships.
• Must stay up-to-date on emerging technologies and the potential effectiveness of these advancements in their current system.

Note

Shortlisted candidates must meet the provisions of Chapter Six of the Kenyan Constitution. In this regard, the candidates should obtain clearance certificates from:

• Kenya Revenue Authority;
• Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission;
• Criminal Investigation Department;
• Higher Education Loans Board;
• Credit Reference Bureau