Babyl,Country IT Manager Jobs in Rwanda

Sector:
Digital health

Babyl
is launching in Rwanda

Having
successfully launched in the UK and Europe we are working with the Rwandan
government to expand our award winning digital health service.

Babyl’s
purpose is to make health accessible

and affordable to everyone in the world
because we believe healthcare should be democratized. To achieve this we
harness the power of digital technology, real-time human data and the best
medical expertise to place immediate, intelligent, comprehensive and affordable
healthcare into the hands of every person on earth.

Job
Advert Description

Job
Title:
Country IT Manager

Reporting
Lines:
Director of Product

Location:

Kigali

Contract:
Full time

Number
of Positions:
Single

About
Babyl

Babyl
is an innovative digital healthcare service providing access to doctors and
nurses through mobile phones, using either the feature phones or the smart
phones. We combine the latest technology with the knowledge and experience of
the qualified expert doctors and nurses in the country, babyl seeks to make
healthcare simpler, better, more accessible and affordable for Rwandans
everywhere.

Our
platform lets users act upon health concerns quickly by accessing medical
professionals within minutes, to have a medical consultation through their
mobile phone. Users will also be able to get their prescriptions sent to
their mobile phones and collect them from their local pharmacy for convenience.
All clinical records will be stored and available to patients whenever they
need it; including notes, images, videos and audios of the consultations.

This
application will be available for all types of phone users. Smart phone users
will be able to have consultations with doctors via video. There will be also
be a USSD version of the service and through this our nurses will triage the
clients.

We
are well on our way to making this happen in Rwanda.

Context
of the role

What
do we want?

We
are looking for a Country IT Manager to join our team to help us continue to
innovate and optimize our product portfolio. You will be accountable for
performance and continuous improvements of our technical systems and work
cross-functionally across the business.

The
role will drive the agenda for our technology by synthesizing technical and
strategic concerns and ensure that all the challenges are resolved effectively
and efficiently. You will be working with highly skilled engineering,
commercial and product teams to deliver great products across Rwanda.

We
have a team of the best people you’d ever want to meet, working on some of the
most futuristic projects. We like people who are smart, funny, innovative and
tenacious, who can adapt and work together.

Job
Specification

Provide
technical supervision for babyl systems, determining priorities and assign
work to different teams.
Work
closely with team in Rwanda (clinicians and administrators, management,
and other stakeholders) to identify and gather requirements for new
features and reporting needs.
Facilitate
and support ongoing development of relationships between the third party
service providers like data centers.
Work
closely with the product manager to standardize and formalize
processes/procedures around managing the software deployments.
Mentor
members of the development team, with a focus on building skills around
business analysis, release management, software version management,
testing procedures, and other processes to manage the software development
life cycle.
Identify,
analyze, and document clinical and administrative workflows within health
facilities and ensure system development supports and enhances business
efficiency.

Work
with Government partners to support national roll out of babyl product.
Coordinate system launch activities across the partners.

Job
Qualifications

10
or more years managing high volume production systems.
Deep
understanding of Mobile money and key systems like Oltranz. Experience of
implementing and maintaining mobile money integration.
Experience
of maintain USSD applications with large transactions and working with
telecom providers.
Substantial
experience in IT integrations between technically complex platforms,
composed of various services and data store solutions.
Strong
Analytical abilities, ability to analyse complex IT structure and process
documentations, understand technical design challenges and come up with
solutions.
Must
be able to identify problems before they happen, dig deep for root causes
and implement solutions that prevent future occurrences.
A
natural team player, who enjoys working multiple development
collaboratively with colleagues and clients alike.
Flexible
and adaptable, with a “can do” approach and hit the ground running
Someone
who thrives in a dynamic environment and will contribute to ongoing organizational
improvements.
Understanding
of governmental IT systems and Telco integrations in Rwanda. Experience
with Rwandan healthcare and social insurance tech infrastructure is a
plus.
Experience
with sensitive data storage and governance.
Comfortable
talking about technical things with business people and business things
with technical people. Able to express complex concepts in plain language
to reach broader audiences.
Fluency
in English.
Rwandan
nationality / long-term residence is a plus.