Principal Senior Application Architect at Ministry Of Finance And Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) : Under Contract :Deadline: Feb 15, 2024

Job responsibilities

Under direct supervision and guidance of the E-Procurement Program Manager, the Principal Senior Application Architect will be responsible of the following: • Be in charge of planning and organizing e-Procurement system development • Design system architecture and application architecture based on the received requirements. • Choose technologies for the implementation of each component of the system. • Defining and implementing all aspects of software development • Perform regular code reviews to ensure the design quality and avoid overly complicated structures. These tasks usually involve hands-on work on prototype development, code contributions, or technological assessment. • Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform. • Constantly review the code to ensure the quality of the design by avoiding complexity, advocating clarity • Ensure system performance, scalability and extension • Design and document complex algorithms and data structure for the system functionalities • Transfer knowledge, collaborate and mentor junior developers • Describe and document external linkage systems • Make use of changing technologies • Assist in the identification of issues and problems e-Procurement system and finding of suitable solutions. • Assist the Program Manager to identify risks to the System and the formulation of strategies to mitigate such risks • Work with the database architect and security engineer to implement e-Procurement DevSecOps • Ensure that weekly and other relevant reports are prepared and submitted to the immediate supervisor • Carry out any relevant other duties assigned by the immediate supervisor

Minimum qualifications

• • Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering

    5 Years of relevant experience

• • 2

    Bachelor’s Degree in Information and Communication Technology

    5 Years of relevant experience

• • 3

    Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

    5 Years of relevant experience

• • 4

    Master’s Degree in Software Engineering

    3 Years of relevant experience

• • 5

    Master’s Degree in Computer Science

    3 Years of relevant experience

• • 6

    Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering

    3 Years of relevant experience

• • 7

    Master’s Degree in Information and Communication Technology

    3 Years of relevant experience

• • 8

    Bachelor’s Degree in Information Management Systems,

    5 Years of relevant experience

• • 9

    Master’s Degree in Information Management Systems,

    3 Years of relevant experience

• • 10

    Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

    5 Years of relevant experience

• • 11

    Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

    5 Years of relevant experience

• 12

  Master’s Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

  3 Years of relevant experience

Required competencies and key technical skills

• • 1
    Resource management skills

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    Analytical skills

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    Problem solving skills

• • 4
    Decision making skills

• • 5
    Time management skills

• • 6
    Risk management skills

• • 7
    Results oriented

• • 8
    Digital literacy skills

• • 9
    Fluency in Kinyarwanda, English and/or French. Knowledge of all is an added advantage.

• • 10
    Excellent knowledge of software and application design, development and architecture

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    Extensive knowledge in software development and Database administration

• • 12
    Understanding, Continuous Integration (CI with Jenkins or similar), Source Code Management and Control (SVN, Git)
    
    
    

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    Knowledge of unit testing (e.g. mockito framework, etc….)

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    Experience in enterprise-level system integration

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    Familiarity with HTML/CSS, JavaScript and UI/UX design

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    Understanding of software quality assurance principles

• • 17. Management of risk identification and risk mitigation strategies associated with the architecture

• • 18. A technical mindset with great attention to detail with control over synchronization of the software with the system architecture

• • 19. High quality organizational and leadership skills

• • 20. Outstanding communication and presentation abilities

• • 21. Highly interested in keeping up to date with changing technology

• • 22. Understand the laws regarding privacy and data storage

• • 23. Knowledge and experience in e-government application development will be an advantage

• • 24.Experience in developing, deploying and maintaining highly scalable software using java or C#

• 25. Understanding of Secure Coding, Secure Application Development