Job Description

• The Senior Front End Developer 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 further rally the software development team towards the Product vision and technical strategy.
• The Senior Front End Developer will report to the DevOps Manager.

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Lead the front-end development team in the design, development, coding, testing, and debugging of country level digital tools.
• Take a leadership role in development and implementation 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
• Co-Lead the planning and documentation of technical specifications of system design and features 
• Work with the management team to 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 specified PM tools.
• 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 DevOps manager to plan for and prioritize resource needs for systems development
• 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 DevOps Management and IS Regional Team in specific application release planning and development of deployment schedules.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 3 years of experience in 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
• Experience leading software development teams. 
• Solid knowledge of responsive web design using Bootstrap and related technologies.
• Experience deploying large scale solutions using containers and other cloud technologies.
• Solid knowledge of JavaScript environments, including react/redux and angular
• 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 will be an added advantage.