Job Title: Senior ICT Officer
Hiring Organization: AGRA
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: Agriculture
Job Type: Full
Time
Salary: KES
Competitive
Date Posted: 01/19/2024
AGRA is
an African-led institution that actively supports the drive towards inclusive
agricultural transformation and sustainable food systems. We do this by
empowering the continent’s 33 million smallholder farming households to
transform their agriculture from a struggle to survive to profitable
businesses. The continent’s farmers regularly face challenges, and we aspire to
provide uniquely African solutions that respond to their agricultural and
environmental challenges, leading to increased harvests for reduced hunger and
more income.
Working in alignment with the development priorities of our focus countries, we enable farmers to access improved and high-yielding seeds, gain knowledge on sustainable farming, and linkages to profitable markets.
In our
work, we aspire to build the alliances, partnerships, and networks required to
drive an inclusive agricultural transformation. We work with our partners to
create an equitable youth-friendly environment that harnesses the youth
dividend on the continent to drive growth and facilitate open employment
opportunities for young women and men. We achieve our key objectives through a
focus on the following four areas of intervention:
Policy
and state capability – We support governments in creating an enabling
environment for private sector involvement in agricultural transformation.
Seed systems – We trigger higher productivity by increasing the availability
and access to improved seeds by farmers allowing them to increase their
harvests for food security and better incomes.
Sustainable farming – We support farmers in building resilient farming systems
for sustained high yields through interventions such as mechanization and
irrigation.
Inclusive markets and trade – We work to increase the linkages between farmers,
and other market actors for a positive, sustained cycle of commercialization
and reinvestment.
Implementing Our New Strategy Through People
People
are the heart of our organization and remain the true drivers of our delivery
and our impact.
We work
with incredible people and partners who have roots in farming communities
across the continent combined with an inclusive and diverse workforce from over
24 nationalities. Our commitment to a call to action goes beyond ourselves as
we arise to catalyze African Food Systems transformation by being Deeply
collaborative, Executing Excellently, Sincerely Constructive and Increasingly
Entrepreneurial aligned with our values of (I-RISE; Integrity, Respect,
Innovation, Stewardship and Equity).
We are
looking for people who are passionate about Africa to join our innovative,
growing, and multidisciplinary team. Together, we can grow Africa’s food
systems improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. Want to join us?
The
Position
Senior
ICT Officer – Business Analytics (Oracle Functional Expert), Job Reference:
ICT/OPS/11/2023
The
Senior ICT Officer – Business Analytics (Oracle Functional Expert) performs
systems configurations, development, and maintenance work in all phases of
applications life cycle for the Oracle Cloud ERP system from business process
analysis, process design through testing, implementation, and support primarily
in Fusion Procurement, Finance, Human Capital Management (HCM) and associated
Integrations.
The
Functional Expert performs functional requirement analysis, develops technical
specifications, functional configurations, performs application and unit
testing on procurement, finance and HCM modules. This includes custom solutions
identified along with associated forms, reports, and data views. In addition,
this role enables user acceptance testing, develops technical and user
documentation, and provides technical support in coordination with internal and
external partners.
The role
holder is the internal Oracle Fusion Finance, Procurement and Human Capital
Management expert providing support in formulating and implementing AGRA’s ERP
Strategy and ensures business processes enhancements and innovations
implementations in AGRA.
The role
will work closely with partners across the organization, and travel is expected
to be approximately 10% per year.
Key
Duties and Responsibilities:
Perform
functional requirements analysis and functional configurations, in accordance
with business requirements on Oracle Cloud Fusion systems.
Translate
the requirements obtained from business requirements gathering sessions to
create relevant and effective systems and software solutions that meet the
requirements of the organization.
Development
and maintenance of webservices, REST & SOAP APIs in Oracle Cloud ERP
systems and related interfaces primarily in the areas of relationships
management, vendor/grantee payments, budgets, finance, human resources,
payroll, and travel modules.
Produce
technical specifications and documentation that includes impact analysis, test
cases, object dependencies, performance testing and risk analysis.
Creates
solutions for business and technical problems identified, in accordance with
industry standards and AGRA’s policies, practices, and regulations.
Perform
system maintenance and production support to Oracle Cloud Fusion Finance,
Procurement, Human Capital Management and Budgeting systems alongside related
Integrations, etc.
Creates
prototypes and proof of concepts as identified to enable decision making.
In
coordination and collaboration with support and application development teams,
align, and contribute to design, development, and documentation standards.
Identify
errors or flaws in business/system methods and suggests action plans for
improvement.
Identify
design configuration specifications and business technological requirements
improvement areas and document works to address gaps.
Collaborate
with users and customers to determine organizational priorities and share
guidelines to drive the business.
Engage
with users/customers to resolve issues and obtain feedback to determine
completeness of solutions in accordance with best practices, policies, and
guidelines for systems functionality.
Lead in
systems management and acts as focal reference point for systems issues
resolutions and functional enhancements in Oracle Cloud and related/integrated
systems.
Research
on and suggest new and innovative ways to improve and deliver value to business
clientele.
Organize
and maintain accurate records and documentation for compliance and/or reference
purposes.
Plan and
run systems tests to monitor performance, ensure optimum quality and integrity
of AGRA systems.
Organize
formal sessions and seminars and prepare training documentation for users.
Acquire
and maintain relevant skills required to enable effective support to team
members on Oracle Cloud Fusion solutions.
Provide
support for application development in business areas outside of areas
highlighted above as required based on priorities.
Perform
any other relevant duties assigned by the supervisor.
Key
Qualifications and Experience required:
Bachelor’s
degree in computer science, software engineering or information technology.
At least
5 years’ active, continuous professional level experience implementing and
maintaining Oracle Cloud Fusion enterprise-wide applications, databases, and
servers.
Professional
qualifications and certifications with solid experience in Oracle Cloud Fusion
ERP implementations and support.
Excellent
knowledge of Oracle Cloud Fusion configurations and development methods and
disciplines.
Full end
to end understanding of Oracle Cloud Fusion functionality, implementations,
development, quality, and production environments covering Oracle Cloud Fusion
Finance, SCM, HCM, OIC, PaaS, SaaS and Reporting.
Understanding
of relational databases, data storage, and SQL concepts. Understanding of data
structures and data objects
Development
experience in Oracle Cloud Fusion modules.
Experience
in Oracle JET, Oracle APEX.
Expertise
in BI / OTBI reports development.
Experience
of working in a large and complex organization.
Functional
expertise in at least one area among Finance, Procurement or Human Capital
Management.
Oracle
University Certifications or equivalent is a must.
Working
experience and knowledge in SOAP & REST API development is a plus.
Good
understanding of and functional experience in integrations between Oracle and
non-Oracle applications/modules will be an added advantage.
Excellent
written and verbal communication skills.
Excellent
presentation skills.
Strong
interpersonal skills.
Ability
to communicate effectively (written and oral) in English.
