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.