Vacancies at Ona

Key Responsibilities:

•  Maintain production system uptimes.
•  Help with architecture for new and upcoming projects.
•  Defining, creating deployment scripts installation and automating processes and programs.
•  Monitoring and optimizing infrastructure resource usage, cost and security.
•  Exploring and Testing new deployments/tools/environments.
•  Planning in proposals and project inception.
•  Work collaboratively with the engineering team on-call rotation
•  Write and review code for tools that help automate operation tasks.

Key Requirements

Essential

•  Minimum 2 years writing production web or system applications.
•  Minimum 1 years maintaining production systems on Linux.
•  Experience writing Golang, Java, and Python code.
•  Experience with CI/CD tools and processes.
•  Experience working with remote teams.
•  Strong attention to detail and understanding of architectural dependencies.
•  Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
•  Experience in monitoring resource usage.
•  Experience in communicating with users, other technical, and project management teams to collect requirements.
•  Experience in communicating technical issues and solutions to technical and non-technical Stakeholders.

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RESPONSIBILITIES.

• Project management. Lead a small team in the day to day execution of a client project, with the support of Ona’s project sponsors and engineers. 
• Dashboard/deliverable design. Develop tailor-made solutions using Ona’s products and supported tools, usually in the form of dashboards or data portals, combining technical analysis skills with critical thinking and understanding of the subject matter. 
• Data architecture. Design the appropriate database system to address the project needs and combine the relevant data sources, building on Ona’s database best practices. 
• Advanced data analysis. When required, perform research and analysis on large datasets, including data exploration, trending, modeling, etc. 
• Stakeholder management. Provide trusted advice and high quality counsel to clients, managing internal and external actors to deliver the project outcomes. 
• Project coordination. Manage resourcing needs, project timelines, budgets and other relevant activities, including documenting progress, plans and decisions.
• Product innovation. Provide regular input in the development of Ona’s proprietary analytics software by exposing client requirements and suggesting feature improvements to increase the value-add of our platforms.
• Mentoring. Professionally develop data analysts, both within and outside the project, to help them hone technical and critical thinking skills and progress in their careers.

CAPABILITIES.

• Deep passion to improve lives around the world using technology.
• Analytical mindset and intellectual curiosity, combining data-driven problem solving and intellectual curiosity to understand the subject matter for our clients.
• Strong communication skills with proven ability to interact with clients and present deliverables and findings. 
• Entrepreneurial attitude capable of moving ahead without close supervision and taking ownership for project delivery.
• Open to feedback and proactive in gaining skills and knowledge across new tools, technologies, processes, and relevant sectoral publications.  
• Ability to lead and motivate other staff in a dynamic, multicultural environment where change is the norm.
• Some positive attitude and sense of humor never hurts :) . 

KEY REQUIREMENT ESSENTIAL.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, e.g. Computer Science, Data Science, Business Intelligence,  IT, Economics, Social Science or Engineering, etc. 
• At least 4 years work experience in consulting, BI/Analytics development, or other related analytical activities. 
• Experience developing data visualizations, dashboards, and reports using widely-adopted data analytics or business intelligence platforms a plus (e.g. Superset, Tableau, PowerBI).
• Comfortable with SQL and SQL-inspired declarative query languages, ideally with experience working with large datasets (on relational as well as non-relational data stores). 
• Mentoring and/or team management experience.  

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Qualities we're looking for

Thoughtful coder.

• You understand the importance of abstractions and interfaces. You keep modules loosely coupled and know that algorithms + data structures = programs.
• You read and understand existing systems before diving in. You know how to prototype, how to iterate, and when to step back and think it through or ask questions.

Builder.

• You are committed to the projects you work on and need to see them through to completion. You understand that solving the user's problem is the end goal.
• Lifelong learner.
• You stay up to date with the latest trends and are excited to learn new languages, tools, and best practices.

Explorer.

• You thrive in teams and projects that span time zones and cultures.
• You're ready and excited to travel in order to support projects, no matter how dusty or remote.

Key Responsibilities

Essential 

• Contribute and collaborate to the vibrant OpenSRP open source community.
• Define client needs, system requirements, dependencies between requirements, and expected timelines.
• Design, architect, extend and build Android client applications.
• Coordinate and balance priorities of multiple projects and deliverables.
• Minimum 5 years programming production Java web applications.
• Minimum 5 years programming production Android client applications.
• Experience programming with APIs and service based architectures.
• Experience with databases and their integration into web and Android applications.
• Strong attention to detail and understanding of architectural dependencies.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills.

Desirable

• Experience working with remote teams
• Experience with OpenSRP, OpenMRS, other EMRs
• Experience with Kotlin, Spring
• Experience with Postgres, SQLite, other relational, k/v, column-oriented, or log-based databases
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, AWS, Alibaba Cloud, other IaaS and infrastructure as code systems
• Experience with Superset, NiFi, Kafka

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Qualities we’re looking for

Thoughtful coder 

• You understand the importance of abstractions and interfaces. You keep modules loosely coupled and know that algorithms + data structures = programs.
• You read and understand existing systems before diving in. You know how to prototype, how to iterate, and when to step back and think it through or ask questions.

Builder  

• You are committed to the projects you work on and need to see them through to completion. You understand that solving the user's problem is the end goal.

Lifelong learner 

• You stay up to date with the latest trends and are excited to learn new languages, tools, and best practices.

Explorer 

• You thrive in teams and projects that span time zones and cultures.
• You're ready and excited to travel in order to support projects, no matter how dusty or remote.

Key responsibilities 

• Design, architect, build large scale data collection and visualization systems.
• Coordinate and balance priorities of multiple projects and deliverables.
• Analyze and organize raw data.
• Build data systems and pipelines.
• Combine raw information from different sources.
• Explore ways to enhance data quality and reliability.
• Identify opportunities for data acquisition.
• Develop analytical tools and programs.
• Collaborate with data scientists and architects on several projects.

Essential 

• Hands-on experience with databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Hands-on experience with the linux command line.
• Minimum 5 years programming in Python, JavaScript, or Java.
• Experience programming with APIs and service based architectures.
• Strong attention to detail and understanding of architectural dependencies.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills.