AMPATH Systems Engineer / Java Programmer Job in Eldoret Kenya

The Academic Model Providing Access to Health Care (AMPATH) is a program under the auspices of Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) and Moi University whose aim is to provide sustainable efforts in access to health care. 

AMPATH supports the Ministry of Health in eight (8) Counties of Western Kenya Region, with a catchments population of an estimated 3.5 million people.

The AMPATH Research office invites applicants for the post of Research Data Manager.

The UO1 grant is a five year recently awarded grant by NHLBI aiming at Optimizing Linkage and retention of hypertension patients to care in Western Kenya. 

This grant seeks to determine the causes of non-linkage and non-retention, and develop solutions that will optimize linkage and retention to care within the study communities.

Applications are invited for the following vacant position in the Linkage and Retention to hypertension care in Western Kenya (L.A.R.K.) study.
 

Post: Systems Engineer / Java Programmer

1 Post
 

The Role: Reporting to the Chief Information Officer as well as the Principal Investigator, the successful candidate will among others be responsible for the following:-

• Collaborate with the Medical Informatics group at AMPATH to design, develop and modify java-based applications.
• Design and create mobile health programs primarily using the Android framework.
• Design and create java programs, and develop applications on top of OpenMRS (www.openmrs.org) software.
• Install software applications and operating systems under predetermined guidelines as well as monitoring, testing and troubleshooting existing application system.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, program, test, implement and troubleshoot assigned systems.
• Maintain the software, and make changes and enhancements, as needed.
• Assist with health information analysis documentation upon request.
• Assist with effective interface of assigned systems with other systems.
• Implement algorithms to integrate with existing and emerging systems.
• Ensure assigned systems have assigned systems have required security support.
• Complete assignments in a quality and timely manner with minimal errors.
• Supports development and maintenance needs as specified by his or her supervisor.
• Assist with research on various technologies and other topics.
• Seeks input and feedback from team members to improve individual work activities.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in IT/ Computer Science or related field.
• Be in possession of a minimum of at least one year of related work experience in Information Systems or programming.
• Ability to interact and verbally communication with co-workers.
• Ability to write reports and operational correspondence.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Intermediate or advanced java programming skills, including some familiarity with the Android platform.
• Working knowledge and experience with Subversion, Spring, javascript, Hibernate and SQL.
• Awareness of basic concepts, practices, and procedures in programming, systems development, and software engineering (including but not limited to object-oriented techniques and languages, database principles and programming, and opensource methodologies).
• Experience with OpenMRS development (www.openmrs.org), including at least one patch successfully reviewed and applied to OpenMRS core code will be an added advantage.
• Aptitude to learn clinical processes and clinical terminology.

Terms of Employment: The successful candidate will be employed on a 1-year renewable contract terms with a competitive salary and allowances.
 

Application Submission
 

Candidates who meet these requirements and are interested should email their applications together with detailed Curriculum Vitae giving details of current remuneration to jobs@ampath.or.ke with the subject line “Systems Engineer/ Java Programmer Application.
 

Applicants are encouraged to submit a patch to one or more OpenMRS ticket(s).
 

Include a link to a successful project accomplished
 

Introductory developer materials:http://openmrs.org/wiki/developers
 

Suggested introductory tickets: http://dev.openmrs.org/report/20
 

NB. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
 

The Chief of Party AMPATH Plus/Ag. C.E.O AMPATH
P.O. Box 4606
Eldoret

Application materials clearly labelled “Application for employment as Systems engineer/ Java Programmer” must be sent so as to be received at the above office by 14th January, 2015.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted