Back Software Engineer Analyst - BMS/ITM

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

The United Nations Development Programme is the global development network of the United Nations system that is on the ground in 177 countries, with its Headquarters in New York, USA. The Bureau for Management Services (BMS) is a central Bureau tasked with the development of corporate strategies, policies, tools and systems in key cross-cutting management areas. Drawing on sound analytics and a risk-management approach, BMS supports the achievement of development results through management advice, innovative business solutions, and other corporate services in line with international best practices and evolving needs and expectations of development partners. BMS also ensures policy adherence in operations management within UN Rules & Regulations, safeguarding UNDP’s accountability vis-à-vis Member States and other stakeholders.

UNDP is an operational backbone to the UN system: providing payroll, financial transactions, common premises, treasury investment, procurement, legal services to UN agencies. UNDP provides IT support for 13 UN entities with 40,000 United Nations and external users of the UNDP’s Atlas ERP system, as well as information and communication technology (ICT) and application solutions for the United Nations field presence. To support the UNDP Digital Strategy 2019-2021 and enable the digital transformation of the organization, the office of Information and Technology Management (ITM) is tasked with developing and operating the enabling corporate technology platforms and providing related services that power the digital transformation including: (1) advice, administration and acceleration services to promote delivery of maximum business value of each platform; (2) a global service desk operation; (3) and outreach services to promote knowledge sharing and effective, agile planning and governance of technology development and utilization.

Under the overall guidance of the Chief, Digital Corporate Platforms, the Software Engineer Analyst will be part of the digital innovation platform initiative, centering on building the platform, providing planning, support, and onboarding the users to use the platform in supporting their app creation and development. In this position, you will be working with the project lead in managing the platform and automated process to support the provisioning of resources to provide a seamless experience to platform users in transitioning from traditional development practice to a full modern DevOps application development. In addition, you will be managing support to the platform users both in guiding as well as hands-on support to ensure they are able to take full advantage of the platform including support in creating a build release pipeline for the app. This position will also be managing and supporting the publishing pipeline in releasing the mobile app to both android and apple stores.

• Responsible for managing the team working on the designing, coding, unit testing, building, deploying, and supporting application software development in a global dynamic environment across functions and projects.
• Planning code reviews, bug bashes and design reviews with the team. Researching new tools and technologies that can be applied to current system for enhancing and improving current functionalities.
• Promote guidelines and capacity building that would enable other developers in the community to create and improve applications, integration, and data architecture.
• Promote the implementation of DevOps application development model and support use of enabling technologies such Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
• Initiate use of new concepts and technologies with other units within ITM to better support and optimize UNDP digital technology innovation.

Core Competencies

• Innovation -  Ability to make new and useful ideas work.  Level 4: Adept with complex concepts and challenges convention purposefully.
• Leadership - Ability to persuade others to follow. Level 4: Generates commitment, excitement and excellence in others.
• People Management - Ability to improve performance and satisfaction.  Level 4: Models independent thinking and action.
• Communication -  Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform. Level 4: Synthesizes information to communicate independent analysis.
• Delivery - Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement. Level 4: Meets goals and quality criteria for delivery of products or services.

Corporate Competencies:

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Advocates and promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism.

Functional Competencies:

• Share knowledge and experience and contributes to relevant discussions;
• Ability to work in a team and respect diversity;
• Excellent organizational skills;
• Pro-active, self-directed, enthusiastic and well organized with an attention to details;
• Ability to set and meet deadlines on multiple projects without frequent supervision and work autonomously;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Level 6: Integrate & Empower: Leads integral work of teams utilizing expertise, vision, problem-solving capability, and collaborative energy in professional area of expertise.

Education:

• Master’s degree of Computer Science with 2 years of experience or Bachelor’s with 4 years of experience in Computer Science or related field.

​Experience:

• 2 years of relevant experience (with a Master´s degree), or 4 years of relevant experience (with a Bachelor´s degree in Computer Science), including back-end and front-end (GUI) development experience.
• Must have hand on experience in developing modern web application with DevOps pipeline for built, test and release in a collaborative environment following agile/scrum methodology.
• Strong Programming skills with minimum 2 year of experience in hand on programming in JS, NodeJS, PHP, Python or other open cross platform languages.
• Experience in working with enterprise environment including Kubernetes, Dockers, and related technology.
• Solid understanding of web technology and APIs.
• Understanding of Mobile DevOps and Store publishing.
• Mastering source code control and collaboration with Git.
• Very good understanding of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) and DevOps practices.

Language requirements

• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Working knowledge of French or Spanish is an asset.

Important applicant information

All posts in the GS/NO categories are subject to local recruitment.

**This position is open for Panamanian nationals only**

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Note: UNDP reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement.  We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.

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Contract Duration: 1 Year with possibility for extension