Job description
Develop strategies and guidelines of NIDA systems integration;
Responsible for developing and maintaining system integrations and components including:
• application integrations,
• services,
• internal and external API,
• file transfer,
• and SQL queries.
Responsible for designing and building the required interfaces / system integration between the various software;
Manage the existing system and gateway systems;
Responsible for participating in requirements analysis and decomposition, design, development, internal testing, and the documentation for the application-application integrations;
Troubleshooting existing integrations and providing support to the stakeholder’s team;
Ensure proper system security measures are applied;
Monitor computer networks and related computing environments, including servers, computer hardware, systems software, applications software, firewalls and all configurations;
Recommend the software upgrades and provide technical advice in procurement of existing software and database management applications;
Ensure data integrity across multiple systems;
Rectify malfunctions in the system;
Monitor, evaluate and project required system upgrades to ensure high availability of NIDA system;
Generate reports on system usage for statistical and billing purposes;
Provide support to stakeholders connected for Online Authentication and requiring to integrate with NIDA;
Prepare, plan and follow up on implementation of systems integration with new stakeholders;
Develop guidelines of systems integration;
Follow up with existing stakeholders on change requirements and upgrades of systems;
Produce monthly, quarterly and annual reports on new Systems Integrated with NIDA and support provided to EBPs;
Advise supervisor accordingly.
Minimum Qualifications
- Advanced diploma in Software Engineering3 Years of relevant experience
- Advanced diploma in Computer Science3 Years of relevant experience
- Advanced diploma in Computer Engineering3 Years of relevant experience
- Advanced diploma in Information and Communication Technology3 Years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering3 Years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science3 Years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering3 Years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information and Communication Technology3 Years of relevant experience
- Master’s Degree in Software Engineering1 Year of relevant experience
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science1 Year of relevant experience
- Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering1 Year of relevant experience
- Master’s Degree in Information and Communication Technology1 Year of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Management Systems,3 Years of relevant experience
- Master’s Degree in Information Management Systems,1 Year of relevant experience
- Advanced Diploma (A1) in Electronics3 Years of relevant experience
- Master’s Degree in Electronics Engineering1 Year of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunication Engineering3 Years of relevant experience
- Master’s Degree in Telecommunication Engineering1 Year of relevant experience
- Advanced Diploma in Information Management Systems3 Years of relevant experience
- Advanced Diploma in Telecommunication Engineering3 Years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics Engineering3 Years of relevant experience
Competency and Key Technical Skills
- Integrity
- Strong critical thinking skills and excellent problem solving skills.
- Inclusiveness
- Accountability
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Client/citizen focus
- Professionalism
- Commitment to continuous learning
- Resource management skills
- Analytical skills
- Problem solving skills
- Decision making skills
- Time management skills
- Risk management skills
- Performance management skills
- Results oriented
- Digital literacy skills
- Fluency in Kinyarwanda, English and/ or French. Knowledge of all is an added advantage
- Knowledge of JSP, Web services, XML, ASP, JSP, PHP,
- Knowledge of database security, backup and recovery, and performance monitoring standards
- Knowledge of database technologies including but not limited to MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, MariaDB
- Knowledge of cloud services including but not limited to AWS, Microsoft Azure, google cloud, IBM cloud, Oracle cloud
- Knowledge of Database command of SQL and SQL server tools
- Knowledge in practices, process and procedures relevant to system administration
- Knowledge in systems disaster recovery and redundancy
- Knowledge of virtualization technologies
- Skills in scripting including but not limited to PowerShell and Unix shell, bash scripting, JavaScript
- Demonstrated experience writing Web Services
- Proficiency in programming/scripting languages like Java, Linux, PHP, Ruby, Python