Senior Technical Expert II – Full Stack Developer Full Time

Job Description

The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI) has designed a program called “Agriculture-focused Dignified Employment for Youth in Ethiopia” (ADEY) to address youth and women unemployment rate and increase the participation of young people in the labor market, particularly in the agriculture sector. ATI has mainstreamed youth employment, gender equality, climate-smart, and nutrition-sensitive agriculture in all its programs and projects with the primary objectives of increased access to sustainable and inclusive job opportunities for youth, inclusivity, and the sustainable use of natural resources while building resilience capacities to shocks at all levels.

ATI, among others, currently works with more than 3 million smallholder farmers (540,300 are women and youth) engaged in the Agricultural Commercialization Clusters (ACC) and digital agriculture programs designed to improve smallholder farmers’ production and productivity while supporting other actors along the value chain. Taking ATI’s reputable experience, ADEY program is designed to create inclusive and dignified work opportunities in ACC regions and Somali for over 600,000 youth. The program will focus on several streams such as agriculture and Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to strengthen access to agricultural input and output markets and finance; improve the competitiveness of youth-owned MSMEs through capacity-building activities; enhance the skills and mindsets of young women and men through technical and business skill development and create an enabling environment for work opportunities through policy interventions. Similar to ACC, ADEY will operate along the commodity value chain, largely using ACC infrastructures and complement the different ACC outcomes.

The Full Stack Developer (Senior Technical Expert II) will be responsible for developing digital solutions for projects which can be used for creating jobs in the agricultural sector for the rural female and male youths. The job holder will be working on both front-end and back-end development by designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining existing and new digital solutions to ensure continues functionality. The developer must also understand and be able to use cutting-edge and emerging tools and technology for designing, developing, and deploying digital solutions that can also enable the adoption of precision agriculture and/or smart farming in resource-constrained (in terms of infrastructure and access to device) areas, thereby modernizing the agricultural sector. The candidate should understand the digital agriculture landscape, as well as experience working with entrepreneurs and startups. He/she will report to ADEY Program Deputy director at Federal level technically and administratively, and matrix reporting to Digital Agriculture Lead. He/she will closely work with digital agribusiness Officer, all project leaders and operation directors at both Federal and regional level.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES

• Use various requirement gathering techniques to capture stakeholders’ business processes exhaustively.
• Perform requirements analysis to identify the relevant requirements.
• Model and design the requirement specific to the business processes.
• Perform scoping exercises to understand infrastructure requirements.
• Develop required technical documentation.
• Develop deployment architectures and identify required resources (hardware, management systems, security protocol and system…)
• Develop user-friendly interfaces and experiences using front-end technologies.
• Design and implement server-side logic and databases using back-end languages.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code while following coding standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including designers, product managers, and other developers to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Conduct testing and debugging to ensure code quality, reliability, and performance.
• Deploy and maintain applications using deployment tools.
• Conduct user/stakeholder acceptance test on business process with the developed system/tool and perform operational full-scale test on different scenario.
• Prepare and share full source code documentation of the system and store in a repository.
• Prepare and share system usage user manual with all the details.
• Prepare Issue tracking document and template to follow-up 0n system glitch issues.
• Track and trace activity logs.
• Train master/system level users and end users on main usage and monitor their progress.
• Conduct on training and post training performance of the users.
• Provide on premises and remote assistance and support.
• Support other projects in developing customize digital training platform by customizing tools such as Moodle or similar technologies to assist in project monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.
• Manage and lead problem solving sessions, provide high caliber support to project team members and ensure team alignment, coordination, and build high performance culture and delivery on priority objectives.
• Lead the development of the digital platforms and applications that address the needs of the agriculture sector, entrepreneurs can create new businesses and generate employment.
• Leverage digital technologies to train rural youths in new skills, such as data analysis and programming, which can help them find jobs in the agriculture sector or other industries.
• Work with entrepreneurs and startups to develop and launch digital agriculture businesses that create jobs for youths.
• Provide technical assistance and support to entrepreneurs and startups.
• Supervise and manage project technical teams, including the preparation of annual work plans and budgets, establishing performance objectives and standards, and ensuring timely and appropriate feedback, guidance, and support for optimum performance.
• Provide technical and strategic advice to all members of the PMU and facilitate technical capacity building when needed.
• Oversee the monitoring of project progress and the evaluation of results.
• Monitor project risks, supervise implementation of risk mitigation measures, and update the risk and mitigation measures yearly.
• Facilitate knowledge management, particularly in terms of lessons learned and best practices which may feed a dialogue with government authorities and other DPs as well as contribute to future interventions and policy making.
• Identify needs and oversee the design and elaboration of project related communication and capitalization material.
• Share annual, quarter, monthly, other ad-hoc reports on regular basis.
• Participate in administrative duties when even required.

Required Qualification, Competencies and Experience

• Master’s in computer science, Information Systems, Computer or Electrical engineering, or other related fields.
• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in in developing software and administering databases in projects.
• Expert level knowledge of database management systems (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design.
• Proven record of experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role, experience developing web and mobile applications, proven experience in front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery) and back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python), and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js) and other related tools.
• Expert knowledge of software development principles (eg. Agile methods, CI/CD, etc.)
• Working knowledge of Linux Operating system is an advantage.
• Working knowledge of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Things is an advantage.
• Critical thinking and analytic skills.
• Desire of improving the lives of smallholder farmers.
• Strong capacity to facilitate teamwork.
• Strong Communication skills (writing, speaking, composing, presenting, etc).

How To Apply 

We invite all candidates meeting the required qualifications to submit (i) a cover letter and (ii) a CV (maximum 5 pages) to https://apply.ata.gov.et

It is mandatory to mention the position title under the subject line of your cover letter.

Please DO NOT submit scans of certificates with your application.

Women are highly encouraged to apply.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.