Roster for Integrated Health Information Senior Web Developer

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The mission of WHO India is to improve quality of life of the 1.3 billion people in India by supporting the government in eliminating vaccine preventable and other communicable diseases, reducing maternal and neonatal mortalities, promoting healthy lifestyles, addressing determinants of health, preparing and responding to health emergencies and strengthening health systems for UHC.

WHO Counry Office for India has supported the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to design, develop and deploy the Integrated Health Information Platform. Currently under IHIP three modules are functional:

Health Management Information System (HMIS): It is a Government to Government (G2G) web-based Monitoring Information System that has been put in place by MoHFW to monitor the National Health Mission and other Health programmes and provide key inputs for policy formulation and appropriate program interventions.

Integrated Disease Surveillance Program (IDSP): This is the module developed within IHIP which enables real-time disease surveillance and reporting from any electronic device for 33+ major outbreak-prone diseases.

Malaria (VBDC) module: IHIP module to monitor the malaria cases & control activities.

The current vacancy is to strengthen the IHIP IT team support to the MoHFW. 

Duties:  

The incumbent will work under the overall guidance of the WHO Representative, Deputy Head of WHO Country Office for India, direct supervision of National Professional Officer (High Threat Pathogens) and overall supervision of Team Leader – (Health Security and Emergency Response). S/he will have the following responsibilities in her/his assigned area of work:

• Provide technical guidance and support for day-to-day operations, maintenance and of all aspects of the application development and user credential management for Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) and related software modules including:
• To provide guidance and support to applications developer team for appropriate design considerations, development standards, support procedures;
• Help developer team to write simple, reusable, testable & maintainable code with a focus on performance;
• Working as team design, develop & deploy the Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) applications;
• Provide technical support for day-to-day operations, maintenance, issues resolution, bug fixation, and of all aspects of the application development and user credential management for IHIP applications;
• Design and develop APIs to facilitate data exchange between ABHA, PMJAY, eHospital System, MyHealthRecord, HFM dashboard, DISHA dashboard etc.;
• Design and develop Mobile App modules with relevant modern technologies to provide sub-set of features of the application through Mobile App;
• Track source code changes with Version control systems and follow agile development process and closely work with peers for seamless source code integration across team members;
• Update all technical notes and documentations on all aspects of mobile and computer applications change management including version tracking of applications;
• To oversee the security audit process for the IHIP applications and to provide required technical support. Work closely with IHIP coordinators to understand the business process analysis
• To help and support the transition and handover process to the MoH&FW including development of required documentation including System Requirement Specifications (SRS), Technical Specification Document (TSD), Functional Specification Document (FSD), API specification Documents etc.;
• Communicating effectively with technical and business stakeholders verbally and visually to refine requirements, articulate technical designs and drive user demos;
• Design and maintain the Helpdesk ticketing system and timely resolution of issues reported;
• Provide program-specific field technical support as necessary;
• Other related duties as deemed essential to support IHIP lead technical architect; and
• Undertake any other activities / tasks as assigned by the supervisors.

Qualifications Required:

Education:

Essential:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or Computer applications or any related field

Experience:

Essential:

• Two years of design, development and deployment of web applications using Java Spring Boot Technologies, with front-end technology Angular JS/Angular and PostgreSQL Database, along with mobile App development for Android using ionic Angular/React, with at least two years of experience of working in supporting and maintenance of Health Information Systems for government or similar requirements.

Functional Skills and Knowledge: 

• A full stack JAVA/Angular developer having a broad knowledge of current web development technologies and design tools in the field, and new software and other web programming languages and programs including use of HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, AngularJS, amCharts, Leaflet etc.
• Excellent understanding of IHIP platform or similar health information platforms and web/mobile-based application development and ability to identify and fix software bugs
• Knowledge of popular data visualization software products with a primary focus on business intelligence like Power BI, Tableau etc.
• Ability to independently develop applications including but not limited to JAVA/J2EE, Springboot, JWT Oauth2, Geoserver, Apache Tomcat, Docker, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, QL Developer, PGADMIN, DBeaver, Putty and Jasper Reports and other tools.
• Ability to deploy, maintain and do change management with production quality code changes on Linux/Ubuntu Operating Systems.
• Experience in development and publishing of Mobile App

Language Skills:

Essential:

• Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English and working knowledge of at least one other national language will be an asset.

Source:  https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=2403018

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