Information Technology Officer at Good Neighbors

Location: Head Office (Ruiru, Kiambu County)/ Bissil Office Kajiado County

Employment Period: 1 year renewable

Employee Category: Fixed Term Contract

Key Responsibilities

• Leading the development of custom enterprise software to power and improve the efficiency of our rigorous processes across the network.
• Designing innovative new systems, tools and processes that significantly improve operations throughout the organization; ensuring that IT solutions developed provide optimal solutions to the problems they solve.
• Reviewing existing systems and processes and recommend and design new solutions including running prototypes and pilot tests to evaluate new ideas and reviewing workflows, user interaction and user interfaces for new software solutions before they are developed and recommend improvements.
• Leading of software development resources (in-house and contracted) on architecture improvement projects; customising internal systems with off the shelf software.
• Own the software release process including planning and coordinating the timing, schedule and deployment of software releases being done by the different teams.
• Maintain and improve software configuration management practices and tools including bug tracking, version control, software builds, and deployment.
• Project management for software projects; ensuring milestones and deliverables are satisfactorily met.
• Supporting in-house users of our custom software and problem solving.
• Provide mentorship and general knowledge transfer in matters IT related to members of the IT team.
• Any other duties as assigned by your supervisor

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/ Computing, Certification in software development is a plus.
• Demonstrable experience of 2 years in software development and QA and Testing.
• Demonstrable experience in agile development.
• 4 years working experience in a social enterprise is desirable.
• Ability to design creative solutions given significant constraints such as very low cost, lack of power, and a non-technical user base.
• Experience leading teams through brainstorms / innovation sessions / workshops.
• Knowledge and experience of C#/.NET, PHP, Java and Android.
• Experience taking software projects through the entire software lifecycle (requirements analysis, design, implementation, deployment, post deployment support).
• Demonstrable experience integrating off-the-shelf and custom built technologies.
• Development and support of systems that are critical to the day to day operations of medium and large organizations (ERP, financial systems, CRM, MRP etc).
• Demonstrable experience in database design and advanced SQL.
• Knowledge and experience with professional software development practices and tools including source code control, defect tracking, unit testing and code reviews.
• A team Player.
• A people person, one who will interacts with others learn their needs and develop software solutions to meet those needs.