Data Science Information Systems & Analytics Developer at World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

Duties and responsibilities

 Stakeholder Engagement and Requirement Analysis

• Conduct in-depth analysis of stakeholder requirements for new and existing systems.
• Provide comprehensive feedback to stakeholders regarding their requirements.
• Facilitate stakeholder collaboration in designing mockups and developing use-cases.

  Information System Design

• Develop Information System Architecture based on stakeholder requirements and current technologies, including deployment strategies and sustainability plans.
• Assist the unit in selecting suitable technologies (related to backend, frontend).
• Create and validate UI/UX designs through stakeholder engagement.
• Work with other CIFOR-ICRAF themes and units to support platform development where relevant.

Information System Development

•  Implement software solutions using the selected technology stack
• Perform thorough unit testing and quality assurance
• Develop developer/user guides.

Data Science and Analytics

• Assist in building data pipelines using Open-Source technologies (e.g., Apache Airflow)
• Perform data cleaning and curation for dashboard development.
• Apply Agile software development principles in the design and development of data-driven dashboards
• Explore and implement emerging technologies for micro dashboards (e.g., Apache Superset, Power BI, Observable Framework)
• Assist with data analysis and identification of data requirements for data-driven dashboards.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

• Establish, maintain, test and deploy production CI/CD pipelines
• Utilize Docker Hub and GitHub for efficient deployment and version control.

Collaborative Requirements Gathering and supervision

• Actively participate in requirement gathering workshops to analyze stakeholder needs
• Supervise junior developers on database design and management, and in platform development.

 Contribute to proposal development and writing where relevant.

Requirements

• BSc degree in relevant field.
• Advance programming skills especially in Python Django framework.
• Excellent understanding of database systems, including advanced database development.
• Proven solution deployment experience.
• Good knowledge of Linux.
• Knowledge of Data Science and Machine Learning.
• Knowledge of Data and analytical pipelines.
• Knoweldge of EDA platforms. 
• 2 to 4 years of experience.