Software Developer (BRaVe) at International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Responsibilities

In particular he/she will: 

• Support the requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, training, evaluation of user satisfaction and rollout BRaVe System.
• Support the development of BRaVe modules and implement the quality assurance measures to achieve the expected outputs.
• Support the deployment of the BRaVe system and its testing, including troubleshooting issues and releasing software updates in coordination with the teams;
• Facilitate the implementation of IOM policies and standards in particular data protection policy, ICT policy and standards and good practices at all stages of systems development.
• Support the documentation, development and delivery of user manuals and training programmes for the developed databases and systems under the purview of the Information Management portfolio.
• Support the required performance of the developed databases and systems to prevent and minimize downtime or service interruptions, plan for systems (Software/Hardware) upgrades when necessary and assist the daily monitoring and adequate completion of databases and systems backups.
• Support in the design and delivery of capacity building initiatives under the purview of the Information Management portfolio.
• Contribute to produce regular progress reports on the key performance indicators
• Conduct data validation and cross checking to ensure proper and reliable data migration from within existing databases;
• Assist in the training and skills development support for BRaVe users and admins; 
• Identify and troubleshoot bottlenecks in the process;
• Undertake duty travel when necessary; 
• Any other duties that might be assigned

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited academic institution with at least 3 years of work experience; or,
• High school diploma with at least five years of work experience in relevant fields

Experience

• Experience in managing data collection, entry and maintenance as well as in managing or developing databases is essential.
• Experience working on the development of case management systems is desirable