Jobs at Palladium Group

Project Overview and Role

• Data.FI is a five-year global project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the HIV and COVID-19 response. Data.FI partners with programs to accelerate and sustain access to high-quality data to expedite HIV and COVID-19 epidemic control and maintenance.
• By improving global, regional, national, and community/local in-depth analyses of HIV and COVID-19 epidemiologic and programmatic data, Data.FI expedites program achievements to improve client services and attain and sustain control of the epidemics.
• Data.FI supports host country governments to enhance existing health information systems (HIS), informing management responses to gaps in programming and sustaining impact by supporting local partner transition.

Purpose of Position 

• We are seeking to employ a Senior Software Engineer who will provide leadership support to the Data.Fi Nigeria software development team.
• S/he will be responsible for directing the development team in the design, development, coding, testing, and debugging of applications with guidance from the HI Lead and the DIAS regional team.
• The Senior Software Engineer would oversee task management, standardization, skills improvement, technical meetings, and documented sprint demos in addition to validating team performance metrics while ensuring effective communication between team members and other project functional areas.
• S/he will co-facilitate the Health Informatics Community of Practice (CoP) technical working groups and ensure code collaborations and cooperation between the CoP technical teams. S/he will further rally the software development team towards the product vision and technical strategy.
• The Senior Software Engineer will report to the Health Informatics Lead.
• This is a full-time position with a contract for 1 year, renewable subject to availability of funding. 

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the software development team in the design, development, coding, testing, and debugging of country-level digital tools
• Take a leadership role in the development and implementation of technical strategies and solution architectures and design of the project’s suite of technologies
• Work closely with stakeholders including the product owners to understand business requirements and help translate these into technical requirements for the development team
• Lead the planning and documentation of technical specifications of system design and features 
• Ensure that all technical and user requirements, requested enhancements, and reported bugs are accurately captured, validated, and prioritized into the portfolio backlog, product backlogs and comprehensively logged as Epics, Features, Stories, and Tasks on Jira.
• Co-facilitate review sprints with product owners and other stakeholders to secure approval and acceptance from the product owners, and Retrospect sprints to capture lessons learned and actionable improvements applicable to future sprints
• Mentoring team members and ensuring they adhere to determined software quality standards
• Lead implementation of Palladium’s standardized software development approach, including accompanying tools and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Work closely with the Health Informatics Lead to plan for and prioritize resource needs for systems development
• Lead and participate in the writing of testable, scalable, and efficient code and leading code reviews
• Spearhead adoption and compliance to global best practices including the principles of digital development, applicable coding conventions, open standards, and security standards.
• Work with the Health Informatics lead and DIAS Regional Team in specific application release planning and development of deployment schedules.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5 years of experience in the development and implementation of digital health tools specifically relating to technology and data solutions in a data-driven environment.
• Solid technical background with understanding or hands-on experience in development and implementation of Information Systems that support health and social protection programs
• Minimum of 2 years experience leading software development teams overseeing end-to-end design, development, and deployment of software solutions 
• Solid knowledge of responsive web design using Bootstrap and related technologies.
• Experience with relational databases, schema design, and performance analysis.
• Experience deploying large-scale solutions using containers and other cloud technologies.
• Solid Java capabilities and techniques.
• Solid knowledge of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring JPA & Hibernate.
• Good experience with Git or similar version control systems.
• Solid knowledge of JavaScript environments, including react/redux and angular.
• Advanced knowledge of relational data modelling concepts and experience in PostgreSQL and MySQL  
• Work with the DevOps to establish, refine, adapt, and manage software development and information technology operations (DevOps) processes and tools as required.
• Experience using digital tools to manage projects, such as Microsoft Teams, Planner, Jira.
• Experience working with technology teams to ensure design and solution architecture outputs meet the business requirements. 
• Experience with Global Goods for digital health such as DHIS, OpenMRS and OpenHIE. 

Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Highly self-motivated and directed.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

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Project Overview and Role

• Data.FI is a five-year global project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the HIV and COVID-19 response. Data.FI partners with programs to accelerate and sustain access to high-quality data to expedite HIV and COVID-19 epidemic control and maintenance.
• By improving global, regional, national, and community/local in-depth analyses of HIV and COVID-19 epidemiologic and programmatic data, Data.FI expedites program achievements to improve client services and attain and sustain control of the epidemics.
• Data.FI supports host country governments to enhance existing health information systems (HIS), informing management responses to gaps in programming and sustaining impact by supporting local partner transition.

Purpose of Position

• We are seeking skilled Full-stack developers to join the software engineering team responsible for the design and development of various technology products that support health and social services.
• They will work with tech leads and product managers to ideate software solutions and design client and server-side architecture.
• he Full-stack Developer will be responsible for among others, building services using Java and Spring Boot working within a Linux environment, deploying, and managing services on both AWS and Microsoft Azure, and using Postgres to interact with relational data.
• The Full-stack Developers will report to the Senior Software Engineer.
• These are full-time positions with contracts for 1 year, renewable subject to availability of funding.

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Participate in the development of web-based high-capacity information systems for cloud and local environments.
• Evaluate existing systems and maintain detailed technical documentation for all products developed, including system design documents, data dictionaries, and database design.
• Build and maintain test and evaluation environments as required.
• Design and execute performance and security tests, produce reports on these systems as appropriate.
• Design and develop REST-based web services utilizing Java Spring Boot.
• Apply design principles and patterns in creating enterprise-level solutions, as needed. 
• Perform web services tuning and performance testing. 
• Implement unit tests as needed. 
• Support Front-end Developers in leveraging web services. 
• Automate/script common developer tasks, continually optimize personal and team workflows. 
• Infrastructure setup and configuration. 
• Engage in code review and feedback process. 
• Take a feature from inception to completion independently across the stack. 
• Collaborate with teammates on proposed UX/UI and provide feedback as needed. 
• Participate in and support the entire SDLC processes. 

Required Qualifications

• Experience with relational databases, schema design, and performance analysis.
• Experience deploying solutions using containers and other cloud technologies.
• Solid knowledge of JavaScript environments, including react and state management such as redux. 
• Solid knowledge of responsive web design using Bootstrap and related technologies.
• Modern Java capabilities and techniques. 
• Good knowledge of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring JPA & Hibernate. 
• Relational data modeling concepts and experience in PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar applications.
• Adopted opinionated RESTful web services design patterns. 
• Microservices-based application architecture. 
• Application containerization technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes. 
• Knowledge of standards for systems' integration such as REST, OAUTH2 and OIDC.
• Experience with Git or similar version control systems.
• Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Experience with Global Goods for digital health such as DHIS, OpenMRS and OpenHIE will be an added advantage. 

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Project Overview and Role

• Data.FI is a five-year global project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the HIV and COVID-19 response. Data.FI partners with programs to accelerate and sustain access to high-quality data to expedite HIV and COVID-19 epidemic control and maintenance.
• By improving global, regional, national, and community/local in-depth analyses of HIV and COVID-19 epidemiologic and programmatic data, Data.FI expedites program achievements to improve client services and attain and sustain control of the epidemics.
• Data.FI supports host country governments to enhance existing health information systems (HIS), informing management responses to gaps in programming and sustaining impact by supporting local partner transition.

 Purpose of Position

• We are seeking to employ a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist for delivery of workplan activities related to USAID performance management of implementing partners, data visualization, analytics and data use.
• (S)he will be responsible for designing and implementing the M&E activities of the project and performance tracking of indicators as mandated by USAID/Nigeria.  
• (S)he will maintain and ensure timely update of the Automated Partners Reporting Platform (APPR) data for timely submission data reports to USAID and other stakeholders.
• The M & E Specialist will report to the Data Analytics Team Lead.  

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• In coordination with the Data Analytics Team Lead, prepare consolidated reports that include concise narratives and relevant tables to meet donor reporting requirements. 
• Based on PEPFAR MER Indicators, custom indicators for high-frequency reporting (HFR), orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), gender-based violence (GBV) and other key program areas, generate indicator code lists to be implemented on the APPR. 
• Support implementation and standardization of a unified data use strategy and data review guidelines at the national leveland across the states of focus.  
• Provide technical support to the implementation of Situation Room methodology at the national level  
• Provide technical support to HFR reporting and administration of APPR system optimal use at the national level and facilitate access across the hierarchies.
• In coordination with the Data Analytics Team lead, ensure prompt update of analytics and visualization on the APPR and the Comprehensive Access review Dashboard (CARD). 
• Support implementation of weekly data reviews for rapid action methodology at the state level and across hierarchies.
• Update and maintenance of indicators, generating indicator code lists, and configuration of data elements on the APPR.
• Work with the Deputy Country Director in preparing quarterly/annual reports on project progress and monitoring  project activities on a regular basis.
• Respond to routine data analysis requests from the USAID HIV/AIDS and TB (HAT) team and provide necessary feedback in a timely manner.
• Working with the Strategic Information Specialists in the states, support implementing partners to facilitate and support HFR processes to identify barriers to data use and generate solutions to address those barriers. 
• Support documentation of best practices and use cases at the national level. 
• Conduct regular analysis and reviews of national-level performance on key priority indicators.  
• Work with implementing partners to standardize monitoring and evaluation systems.
• Any other duties assigned as per the dynamic programming environment.

Required Qualifications

• A Master's Degree in Public Health, Statistics, Health Informatics, Business Administration or a related field
• At least 3 years of experience working with Health Management Information Systems supporting data management, data analysis and data dissemination for decision making
• Sound technical experience Working with DHIS2 systems
• Experience working with HIV/AIDS programs 
• Ability to work well under pressure, skilled in crisis management, and problem solving
• Ability to work in a dynamic and agile environment with changing requirements and priorities
• Excellent written and verbal skills in English to communicate technical information to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise
• Sound problem solving, analytical, and decision-making skills
• Demonstrated understanding of the PEPFAR data streams, the analytic questions facing PEPFAR programs and PEPFAR reporting requirements; experience with PEPFAR surge and HFR preferred
• Experience in leading and conducting rigorous and evidence-based data quality assessments (DQAs)
• Demonstrated extensive experience working on M&E methodologies, data collection and analysis, and dissemination of findings
• Proven skills in data analysis with proficiency in statistical packages – Stata, SPSS, NVivo, advanced MS Excel, BI applications or other relevant statistical packages
• Technical Knowledge working with patient-level and aggregate data management systems; experience with LAMISPlus in Nigeria and National OVC Management Information System (NOMIS) preferred