BACKGROUND:

The Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI) has been established by the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) to identify and address systemic bottlenecks to Ethiopia’s agricultural development. The Institute does this through problem-solving, implementation support, and capacity building of stakeholders involved in implementation of interventions that address the systemic bottlenecks. 

ATI has an exceptional team of highly competent and committed staff with proven track records of success in managing complex activities and achieving transformational results. Our culture is one where talented, dedicated and adaptable individuals are committed to doing their best and exhibit great results as an individual and as a member of a team. 

ATI provides a unique platform for people who want to achieve their highest potential and make a meaningful contribution in changing the country’s agricultural sector. We offer rewarding work in a young, fast-paced growing organization with passionate, committed, motivated colleagues and excellent career development and training.  We recognize our most valuable assets are our staff and are committed to providing our teams with the tools, training and mentorships necessary to achieve their career goals.

The programmatic focus of the Institute responds to a core set of needs identified by the Ministry of Agriculture and other sectors along commodity value chains. Across the programs, the ATI engages public, private, and non-governmental stakeholders to support strategic planning, manage and strengthen implementation capacity and test innovative models. Currently, ATI is tasked to coordinate the revised Agriculture and Rural Development policy agendas of the sector and such sectoral level delegation requires high level expertise in the policy areas and skillsets in coordination and networking with multiple stakeholders.

Our Culture

We have an exceptional team of highly competent employees with a proven track record of success in managing complex activities and achieving transformational results.  Our culture is one where talented, dedicated and adaptable individuals are committed to doing their best and exhibit great team work to achieve excellent results. 

At ATI, we provide an exceptional platform for people who want to achieve their highest potential and make a meaningful contribution in changing the country’s agricultural sector.  We offer rewarding work in a young, fast-paced growing organization with passionate, committed, motivated colleagues and excellent career development and training.  We recognize our most valuable assets are our staff and are committed to providing our employees with the tools, training and mentorships necessary to achieve their career goals.

 POSITION SUMMARY:

Under general supervision from the Sr. Manager – Application and Development, performs complex professional work in systems development, including some administrative duties. Engaged in all phases of the software development lifecycle, participate in design meetings and consult with end-users to refine, test and debug programs to meet organizational needs and interact and sometimes direct third-party partners in the achievement of targeted development initiatives.

This position is responsible for implementing a new application as well as enhancements to already existing ones.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Develop, test, and implement new software programs

• Clearly and regularly communicate with management and technical support colleagues

• Design and update software database. This includes, but is not limited to: Software Applications, Web Sites, Data Communication Processes and User Interfaces

• Test, maintain and recommend software improvements to ensure strong functionality and optimization

• Facilitate root cause analysis of system issues

• Implement and manage standardized ERP system.

• Accomplishes programming project requirements by coaching programmers.

• Meets programming standards by following production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; identifying work process improvements; implementing new technology.

• Plans programming projects by confirming program objective and specifications with clients.

• Arranges program specifications by confirming logical sequence and flowcharts, researching and employing established operations.

• Verifies program operation by confirming tests.

• Prepares flowcharts and diagrams to illustrate sequence of steps program must follow and to describe logical operations involved.

• Converts project specifications, using flowcharts and diagrams, into sequence of detailed instructions and logical steps for coding into language processable by computer, applying knowledge of computer programming techniques and computer languages.

• Web application and service design, development, and maintenance.

• Designs new applications, databases, and interfaces as requested and assigned.

• Design custom reports and visualizations using report designer tools.

• Strong proficiency with team development tools and code versioning systems.

• Excellent skills in designing and developing multi-tiered web-based systems.

• Strong relational database design/development experience.

• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design patterns and enterprise.

• Sets standards for and reviews existing databases and web development projects

• Comfortable to work within both the open source and licensed context

• Designs database models and implements them; writes custom SQL queries.

• Integrates application front ends with database back-ends.

• Works with system and database administrators to perform database administration and troubleshooting for server databases.

• Responsible migration of enterprise systems.

• Supports and maintains existing and new applications, systems, databases, and interfaces

• Supports and mentor other Programmer Analysts the implementation of new systems.

• Responsible for Project management of all development initiatives.

• Other duties as assigned

Job Requirements

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering and related fields.

• Minimum of 8 years for BSc or 6 years for MSc in software development or application support with significant equivalent experience with the following skill sets: Analyzing Information, Problem Solving, Attention to Detail, Software Design, Software Debugging, Software Development Fundamentals, Software Documentation, Software Testing, Software Requirements, Software Development Process, Database development and administration and Software support.

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in ERP (experience in Agresso Unit 4 is preferable) or other enterprise systems development and support.

• Comfortable with customization tools and Report Studio.

• 8 years minimum end-to-end programming experience, including C#, PHP, ASP.Net, MVC, or Java.

• 6 years minimum experience working with relational database systems such as MSSQL, MySQL, SQL Lite, MongoDB, or Oracle and a good working knowledge of SQL.

• Comfortable working with open-source technologies.

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.

• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.

• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.

• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks.

• A knack for benchmarking and optimization.

• Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines.

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

• Familiarity with continuous integration.

• Development experience using known IDE’s which integrate with source code version control system.

• Team development and testing experience using TFS.

• Experience developing and implementing open-source software projects

How to Apply

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Register using the following LINK

NB: Mention the position title under the subject line of your cover/application letter Please DO NOT submit scans of certificates with your application. Women are highly encouraged to apply. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted