Supply Chain Informatics Advisor
About Palladium:
Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world.
We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.
This Opportunity:
Palladium is seeking to recruit a skilled Supply Chain Informatics Advisor to join the Information Systems Agile Team.
The Supply Chain Informatics Advisor will work with members of the Information Systems Agile team to provide technical advice in planning, developing, and implementing digital tools that enhance availability and access to Supply Chain data, while improving the efficiency of global supply chain programs.
The Supply Chain Informatics Advisor will be responsible for providing informatics advisory support to ensure that the final product(s) meet the objectives and user expectations of the programs.
These will be achieved through working with the agile team at various stages from ideation and planning for software projects, supporting design, quality assurance, documentation, and deployment of existing applications towards the establishment of a robust ecosystem that enhances the supply chain data value chain that supports data analytics and decision making.
Location:
The position is based in either Palladium’s Washington, DC, Nairobi, Kenya or Addis Ababa, Ethiopia office.
You and Your Career:
If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you have expertise in Supply Chain Informatics, 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:
The Supply Chain Informatics Advisor will report to the Senior Technical Advisor, Information Systems with no immediate supervisory obligations.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide technical advice in the development of large-scale supply chain information systems and digital tools including process definition, best practices and strategic approaches.
- Provide advisory insights and technical leadership in supply chain products’ planning, development and implementation stages as required.
- Product management and engineering support in the design and development of high-capacity supply chain information systems, and mobile applications for the cloud and local environments
- Provide subject matter expert advisory support, and work with the BA/QA team to evaluate business processes, anticipate requirements, uncover areas for improvement, and support the development, implementation and testing of solutions.
- Evaluate planned and existing supply chain digital tools and maintain detailed documentation for all products developed, including planning, user and technical documentation.
- Manage the product backlog in allocated projects, support the product management cycle, and work with the agile teams in activity, product, release and deployment planning.
- Perform DevOps roles including deployment of product updates, identifying production issues and implementing integrations that meet client needs.
- Development of system and technical architectures and promote overall, comprehensive, and efficient practices.
- As a key member of the agile team, support the entire software development life cycle (SDLC) processes in supporting the development of digital solutions.
Key Competencies Required:
- Ability to perform high level tasks that require critical thinking, strategic planning, and architectural capabilities for enterprise level solutions.
- Good grasp and understanding of supply chain programs
- Adequate experience in systems development using relevant programming languages like Java and Python, and database scripting (SQL, NoSQL, and distributed databases)
- Excellent knowledge of software development and software testing methodologies
- Sound knowledge of cloud-based environments
- Works well under pressure, skilled in crisis management, and problem-solving
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
- Well-rounded experience with multiple operating systems, virtualization technologies, and test environments
- Ability to coordinate and balance priorities of multiple projects and deliverables
- Ability to work in a fast paced, agile development environment
- Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
- Demonstrate strong problem solving and technical skills
- Knowledge of the trends in the software development domain
- Experience in driving ongoing improvements and efficiencies in operational practices, tools & processes
Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:
- Professional experience directly supporting the development, operations, maintenance, and/or security of mission-critical systems, with experience in supporting medium to large-scale supply chain systems
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion – Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice.
We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics.
These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.
Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at [email protected] and we will be in touch to discuss.
Safeguarding – We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.