• Responsible for the conception, design, development, and deployment of data architecture and data models.
• Provides leadership for the architectural direction, and consultation to MOH and Implementing partner (IP) technical teams.
• Works in collaboration with various MOH and IP units (BI, Product, Reporting) to develop data warehouse platform vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Assists in the evaluation, selection, testing, and optimization of BI/DW related hardware and software products.
• Develops and applies sound fundamental design, analysis, and data administration concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Responsible for the development of physical and logical data models.
• Provides development and administration support for various databases, primarily SQL server databases, in a client-server development environment including stored procedures and triggers, SQL, and index performance tuning, and database design and file storage.
• Develops, deploys, and maintains Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) scripts and schedules.
• Develops and implements all database indexing, maintenance, back-up, transformations, and stored procedures.
• Exposes data to applications in various business tiers.
• Assists software developers in implementing appropriate data access permission schemas.
• Participates in the refinement and development of user stories, assessing the impact of new development on current database implementation.
• Communicates with technical and product owner stakeholders to help them anticipate and mitigate configuration management issues.

Qualifications

• Full Grade 12 Certificate.
• At least a Bachelor’s Degree in MIS, information technology, computer science, or data analysis,
• 5 years minimum years of development experience in an Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database environment, are required for this position
• Experience working with health information systems.
• Broad knowledge and skills associated with the design and implementation of information systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work with a diverse team of experts, with varying academic and cultural backgrounds
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Suitably qualified candidates are invited to apply; however only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.