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UNICEF, ICT Specialist (Development), Valencia, Spain
About position
The ICT Specialist (Development) serves as technical advisor and program quality assurance officer for the development, implementation and maintenance of custom enhancements, interfaces related to SAP, and ServiceNow. SAP technology includes ECC, Process Orchestration (PO), NetWeaver Gateway (GW), Cloud Platform, Mobile Platform, Solution Manager, and third-party interfaces. The incumbent will work with the ICT development team, and external expert consultants to develop and maintain systems enhancements and interfaces utilizing various tools on SAP, Microsoft, and open source platforms.
The ICT Specialist is also responsible for proposing, documenting, and implementing programming standards and performing quality assurance on programs developed by other analysts and programmers before they are moved to the quality assurance, testing and production environments. This role proposes Information Technology solutions for the various business areas of UNICEF, including supply, programme, finance, human resources, finance, partnerships and the Global Shared Service Centre (GSSC).
Responsibilities
- Advises UNICEF staff and consultants in various system development and maintenance phases, e.g. requirement analysis, prototyping design, programming, testing and evaluation.
- Reviews specification for proposed enhancements reports, formats, and interfaces to determine technical soundness, cost benefit, ease of maintenance and applicability.
- Advises and supervises required programming changes to all custom enhancements and interfaces. Reviews system interfaces to ensure consistency of data and business practices across systems and interfaces.
- Reviews quality assurance of programs, procedures, and documentation. Promotes the utilization of standard methodologies that will render productive systems designs and programming techniques among other Systems Analysts and Programmers.
- Works closely with Functional Analysts and colleagues in other sections to develop and implement business functionality with business owners that comply with UNICEF’s system development, security standards and best practices. Assures that new developments are in compliance with restrictions set forth by the vendor license agreements.
- Recommends architectural improvements and simplification of interfaces to ensure consistency, data integrity and better performance.
- Keeps abreast of developments within the area of information technology and advises supervisor on new application areas and technology.
- Evaluates software prior to purchase and recommends procedures for subsequent installation, integration, and training. Advocates and provides new Information Technology solutions for the business needs of UNICEF’s users.
Qualifications
Academic Degrees:
- Advanced university degree (Master’s Degree or equivalent) in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field is required.
- A first university degree (Bachelor’s Degree) in a relevant area combined with 7 years of relevant practical professional work experience may be taken in lieu of an advanced university degree.
Required Professional Experience:
A minimum of 5 years of practical professional work experience at progressively increasing levels of responsibility in supporting international level systems development and support is required, including hands-on working experience in the following:
- Programming and systems development in SAP Fiori, Business Technology Platform (BTP), Core Data Set (CDS) views using HANA studio and SAP gateways
- Enhancement frameworks and SAP upgrades
- Data structure formats such as CSV, XML, JSON
- ServiceNow platform, SAP process orchestrator
- Microservices architecture, application integration services such as SOAP, REST, OData services and API management tool sets.
- Agile, DevOps and CI/CD practices
- Applying all the phases of system development life cycle methodologies.
- Business process and user requirements analysis, system integration, system configuration and system testing and user support.
- Project management with ability to apply various project management methodologies
- Managing diverse teams, vendor management and sourcing.
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About UNICEF ICTD
UNICEF has a 75-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives.
The overarching strategic goal of UNICEF’s Information and Communication Technology Division (ICTD) is to transform and build partnerships with our stakeholders to successfully implement UNICEF programmes globally through innovative technology-enabled solutions.
UNICEF’s ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Systems and its integration with other internal systems and external business partners are the backbone without which the organization will be severely diminished in its ability to execute its day to day operations, and ultimately its mandate.
The Solution Center is the primary stakeholder to analyze, design, develop, deploy and provide ongoing maintenance support for this application portfolio.