Data Science Information Systems & Analytics Developer Center for International Forestry Research Experience: 3 to 5 Years Nairobi, Kenya Apply By: 24-02-2025

As part of CIFOR-ICRAF, SPACIAL’s mandate is to provide expertise and guidance in the realm of spatial/nonspatial information collection, management, data pipeline development, information dissemination. With the demand for these systems on the rise within CIFOR-ICRAF and by partners, we are looking to expand our developer’s team especially with someone similar software designing and development skills using Free and Open-Source tools. The new position will be involved in diverse projects, collaborating with different units, projects (in many regions).

Duties and responsibilities:

Stakeholder Engagement and Requirement Analysis:

• Conduct in-depth analysis of stakeholder requirements for new and existing systems.
• Provide comprehensive feedback to stakeholders regarding their requirements.
• Facilitate stakeholder collaboration in designing mockups and developing use-cases.

Information System Design:

• Develop Information System Architecture based on stakeholder requirements and current technologies, including deployment strategies and sustainability plans.
• Assist the unit in selecting suitable technologies (related to backend, frontend).
• Create and validate UI/UX designs through stakeholder engagement.
• Work with other CIFOR-ICRAF themes and units to support platform development where relevant.

Information System Development:

• Implement software solutions using the selected technology stack
• Perform thorough unit testing and quality assurance
• Develop developer/user guides.

Data Science and Analytics:

• Assist in building data pipelines using Open-Source technologies (e.g., Apache Airflow)
• Perform data cleaning and curation for dashboard development.
• Apply Agile software development principles in the design and development of data-driven dashboards
• Explore and implement emerging technologies for micro dashboards (e.g., Apache Superset, Power BI, Observable Framework)
• Assist with data analysis and identification of data requirements for data-driven dashboards.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment CI CD:

• Establish, maintain, test and deploy production CI/CD pipelines
• Utilize Docker Hub and GitHub for efficient deployment and version control.

Collaborative Requirements Gathering and supervision:

• Actively participate in requirement gathering workshops to analyze stakeholder needs
• Supervise junior developers on database design and management, and in platform development.
• Contribute to scientific papers where relevant.
• Contribute to proposal development and writing where relevant.

Requirements:

• BSc degree in relevant field.
• Advance programming skills especially in Python Django framework.
• Excellent understanding of database systems, including advanced database development.
• Proven solution deployment experience.
• Good knowledge of Linux.
• Knowledge of Data Science and Machine Learning.
• Knowledge of Data and analytical pipelines.
• Knoweldge of EDA platforms.
• 2 to 4 years of experience.

Education, knowledge and experience:

• BSc degree in relevant field.
• Advance programming skills especially in Python Django framework.
• Excellent understanding of database systems, including advanced database development.
• Proven solution deployment experience.
• Good knowledge of Linux.
• Knowledge of Data Science and Machine Learning.
• Knowledge of Data and analytical pipelines.
• Knowledge of EDA platforms.
• 2 to 4 years of experience.

Source: https://www.cifor-icraf.org/career/206844000036707794/data-science-information-systems-analytics-developer/