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Full Stack Developer – Consultant
This Opportunity:
- Palladium’s Digital Informatics and Analytical Solutions (DIAS) is seeking a consultant for a short-term Full Stack Developer to join their regional team of informatics experts based in Nairobi, Kenya that support the technical delivery of informatics solutions. The Regional Informatics Hub is responsible for supporting informatics and digital projects across the DIAS portfolio globally. The Full Stack Developer will support our team of developers working on the design and development of various technology products. This position will work with Tech Leads and Product Managers to ideate software solutions and design client and server-side architecture.
You and Your Career:
- If you have a passion for delivering software solutions, working on projects with a global reach, and always taking an interest in emerging technologies to bring fresh ideas forward and more productive ways of working, we are interested in hearing from you.
- We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities from the start. We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!
Reporting and Supervision:
- This position will report to the Technical Advisor, Lead Developer
- This is a consultancy position with an expected duration of 3 to 4 months
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Technical Expertise:
- Participate in development life cycle activities such as design, coding, testing, and production release, delivering high-quality code in an agile team environment
- Apply design principles and patterns in creating enterprise-level solutions, as needed
- Collaborate with teammates on proposed UX/UI and provide feedback as needed
- Collaborate and communicate with cross-functional teams
- Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code
- Keep abreast with emerging technologies in software engineering
- Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
Business Development:
- Contribute to active proposals through contributions to strategy and preparation of technical approach and capability statements
Key Competencies Required:
- Extensive knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
- Extensive knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
- Experience in configuring and managing web application servers (e.g. Apache Tomcat, IIS etc.)
- Should have demonstrable experience in working with HTTP/RESTful APIs, microservices and distributed solutions
- Relational data modeling concepts and experience in PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar applications
- Application containerization technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes
- Knowledge of standards for systems’ integration such as REST, OAUTH2 and OIDC
- Experience with Git or similar version control systems
- Should possess excellent communication skills and attention to detail
- Should demonstrate strong problem-solving and technical skills
Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:
- Experience in enterprise-level programming and architecture
- Experience developing scalable and secure web applications
- Experience with relational databases such as Microsoft SQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, including designing schemas and query performance analysis
- Experience in NoSQL databases is an added advantage
Data Engineer – Consultant
This Opportunity:
- Palladium’s Digital Informatics and Analytical Solutions (DIAS) is seeking a consultant for a short-term Data Engineer to join their regional team of informatics experts based in Nairobi, Kenya that support the technical delivery of informatics solutions. The Regional Informatics Hub is responsible for supporting informatics and digital projects across the DIAS portfolio globally. The Data Engineer is a hands-on developer role that will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, analysts, and software engineers, to ensure efficient and reliable data management, processing, and integration. This position will play a crucial role in collecting, transforming, and storing large volumes of data, ensuring its quality, availability, and security in a fully Agile environment.
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You and Your Career:
- If you have great numerical and analytical skills, strong foundation in data management, programming, and data processing with excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, we are interested in hearing from you.
- We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities from the start. We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!
Reporting and Supervision:
- This position will report to the Technical Advisor, Lead Developer
- This is a consultancy position with an expected duration of 3 to 4 months
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Technical Expertise:
- Implement and maintain data storage solutions, such as data lakes, data warehouses, or NoSQL databases
- Design, implement, and continuously expand DWH data pipelines by performing extraction, transformation, and loading activities
- Performance Tuning and optimization of the DWH databases, Queries and Views
- Implement data integration and data synchronization processes between different systems and platforms
- Support data modelling and data mart development
- Synthesis of requirements, identification, and analysis of data sources for mapping and performing data quality tests to support source system mapping exercise
- Define and arbitrate the transformation rules per source system and develop ETLs to populate respective data marts
- Perform data profiling functions and interrogation queries against source systems and verifying data marts after ETL processes
- Work closely with the Senior Data Analyst in developing data products for the larger stakeholder groups
- Work with QA to resolve data quality, inconsistency, and integrity issues
- Work with the DevOps team to implement and maintain data infrastructure, including cloud-based services, servers, and storage systems
Business Development:
- Contribute to active proposals through contributions to strategy and preparation of technical approach and capability statements
Key Competencies Required:
- Advanced SQL skills and experience with relational databases and database design
- Experience working with cloud Data Warehouse solutions (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Azure, etc.)
- Experience working with data ingestion tools such as Apache Kafka, Elastic Logstash
- Working knowledge of Cloud-based solutions (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Strong proficiency in object-oriented languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala
- Strong proficiency in scripting languages like Bash
- Experience in data modelling, data governance, and data security principles
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills
- Experience working in Agile teams
Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:
- Proven experience as a Data Engineer or similar role, with a strong understanding of data management and data engineering concepts
- Strong proficiency in data pipeline and workflow management tools (e.g., Talend, Azure data factory, Pentaho, Airflow, Azkaban)
- Experience building and deploying machine learning models in production
- Technical expertise with data models, data mining, and segmentation techniques
- Experience with data manipulation and transformation libraries and frameworks (e.g., Pandas, Spark)
- Experience with data storage solutions like relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL), data warehouses (e.g.,
- Redshift, BigQuery), and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra)
- Data engineering certification (e.g IBM Certified Data Engineer) is a plus
Finance & Administration Assistant
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Accounts Payable
- Review and verify vendor invoices before posting into the system, flag and clarify any unusual or questionable invoice items or prices.
- Sort, code, and match invoices & set invoices up for payment, enter and upload invoices into the system.
- Track expenses and process expense reports, prepare and process electronic transfers and payments.
- Post transactions to journals, ledgers, and other records.
- Reconcile vendor accounts balances with the respective statements monthly.
- Prepare analysis of accounts, and monitor accounts to ensure payments are up to date.
- Resolve invoice discrepancies in liaison with the procurement department.
- Maintain vendor files, correspond with vendors, and respond to inquiries.
- Produce monthly vendor status reports.
- Contribute to month-end close by ensuring that all postings are done, and payable balances cleared.
- Provide supporting documentation for audits and maintain accurate records.
- Set up vendors in the system and get the same approved.
- Pay withholding taxes before the due date to ensure compliance.
Payroll
- Assist in preparing staff payroll for review by Finance and Administration lead by the 20th of every month.
- Ensure accurate and timely processing of payroll updates including new hires, terminations, and changes to pay rates.
- File and keep safe custody of all payroll records and reports of payroll transactions.
- Prepare payroll Journal for review before posting.
- Process payment for all statutory deductions before the due dates.
- Reconcile all payroll-related GLs monthly.
Petty Cash Management
- Review petty vouchers before posting.
- Post petty cash vouchers on Costpoint.
- Perform cash count and prepare petty cash reconciliation.
- Maintain the Petty Cash float as per the petty cash policy.
- Any other duties assigned by the supervisor.
Office Administration
- Maintain office supplies inventory, and ensure the office is sufficiently stocked with supplies.
- Maintain records, documentation, and files for finance, operation & administration work.
- Analyze spending patterns and advise on cost-saving opportunities.
- Initiate office supplies procurement based on stock movements.
- Any other office administration duties.
Required Qualifications
Key Competencies Required
- Bachelor’s degree from a recognized University.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and client satisfaction.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Ability to pay attention to detail.
- Ability to meet strict deadlines.
- Maintain confidentiality.
- Time management and prioritization skills.
Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred
- Experience working as a finance assistant.
- Experience in accounting software.
- Understanding of bookkeeping.