Information Systems Consultant

Contract

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Result of Service

The services of the consultant will support enhancements to UNCTAD statistical data management and dissemination applications, as well as the development of new statistical data management applications.

Work Location

Geneva

Expected duration

05.02.2024 – 15.05.2024

Duties and Responsibilities

The consultant will be assigned software development tasks in Agile Scrum sprints, and is expected to estimate, design, and implement technical solutions to resolve these tasks. Tasks assigned may be new developments or bugs. The consultant is expected to merge his/her changes in a git repository and to deploy software on a Microsoft Azure cloud platform, using CI/CD pipelines. The consultant will interact closely with other developers, the Scrum Product Owner, and key users within UNCTAD. The consultant is also expected to support key users in performing acceptance testing of functionality iterations released.

The work will be monitored by the project officer on a weekly or by-weekly basis, depending on the project stage. Releases to a test environment are expected to be performed on a weekly basis.

Qualifications/special skills

Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in computer science, information systems or a related field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

The following qualifications are required: A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in the design, development, implementation and maintenance of computer information systems, as a full-stack developer 5 years of experience using front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery. 5 years of experience developing front ends in the Angular framework. 5 years of experience in C# .NET, .NET Core. 1 year of experience with high-performance off-the-shelf Javascript datagrid components, preferably AG-Grid (ag-grid.com). 3 years of experience deploying applications on Microsoft Azure platforms, using DevOps tools, in particular CI/CD pipelines. 3 years of experience with Agile software development frameworks, preferably Scrum.

The following qualifications are desirable: 1 year of experience with developing statistical applications with large database backends (more than 1 billion rows).

Languages

Fluency in English (written and spoken) is required.

Additional Information

Not available.

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.