Junior OPENMRS Developer at University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Work with HIS business analysts and developers to design software solutions by studying information needs; systems flow, data usage, and work processes while adhering to the software development lifecycle
• Managing and juggling multiple deadlines and priorities, while also successfully setting scopes of work and tasks for main development teams
• Liaising with high level leadership from CDC/PEPFAR/MOH/NGOs to set priorities, agendas, and scopes of work
  • Support the development of an integrations and interoperability between OHRI and other systems such as LIS and CBS
• Work with HIS business analysts, developers, and IT support staff to support the piloting, rollout and maintenance of HIS systems in public health facilities.
• Work with HIS business analysts and developers to investigate, analyze and make recommendations to management regarding technology improvements, upgrades and modifications
• Work with HIS business analysts and project managers to analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Develop and direct software system testing and validation procedures, programming and documentation
• Work with HIS business analysts and developers to prepare reference materials for end and technical users by writing operating instructions, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
• Undertake such other tasks within the scope of the role as directed by leadership from time to time.
• Develop OHRI program workflows from data collection forms, clinical dashboards with decision support summaries, monitoring and clinical reports

Required knowledge, skills and abilities:

• A minimum of 3 years of experience as a software developer or engineer; with 2 years of OpenMRS development experience.
• Ability to meet deadlines against multiple priorities and schedules, as well as the ability to manage scope creep and immediately alert leadership of issues with budgeting or timelines
• Advanced experience in developing data-driven applications utilizing significant relational database engines as part of the overall application architecture (experience with any or all of the following highly desirable: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, H2 SQL)
• Working experience using Spring, Hibernate, JQuery, Subversion, Liquibase, Git, Restful web services, Agile methodology, Maven, React
• Advanced knowledge and demonstrable skill with popular open-source programming languages (must include JAVA and JavaScript)
• Proficiency developing and troubleshooting complex software systems that run in mixed environments including Linux, Unix and/or Windows on desktop, server, tablet, and mobile systems
• Experience with React and Micro-frontends-based architectures is a plus

Education and Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science and software engineering and Information systems with a minimum of ten years’ experience in software development or working with health information systems.