Key accountability (Main purpose of this job):
Reporting to the Head of Technology, this role requires a good mix of technical and business-interfacing skills to scope, implement and manage a range of applications for internal and external customers. The key focus areas of this role will be platform governance, process automation and optimization, integration architecture and database administration.
Responsibilities (Key areas of Responsibilities):
● Oversee the technical evolution of our current IT infrastructure, which includes learning management system, student management system, customer-relationship management system and administrative systems.
● Interface with end-users to understand short and medium term needs.
● Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage and work processes; investigating problem areas; and following the software development lifecycle.
● Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions.
● Develop optimal solution architectures to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction.
● Implement, configure and test feasible solutions.
● Support users on change control and system updates.
● Stay up-to-date with technical and industry developments and standards.
Requirements:
● Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or IT-related equivalent
● 5-8 years of software development or full-stack web development experience on integrating various SaSS or custom platforms (CRM, LMS, ERP etc) using API or web services
● Strong Hands-on experience with cloud integration platform (Workato, MuleSoft etc) and relational database (MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, Mongodb, BigQuery etc)
● Hands-on with Programming Languages: HTML5, CSS, Java, PHP, Web Services, JavaScript/JQuery, Bootstrap, Python, typescript, Nodejs
● Strong analytical mindset and solution focused
● Demonstrated experience in effectively managing end-users
● Experience with Google Cloud, Ubuntu, especially Kubernetes, BigQuery, Looker and other data analytics services is a huge plus
● Prior experience working in the education sector and student information systems and LMS will be advantageous
