Manage IT issues and concerns relevant to CARE Component 1 implementation in Pakistan including, but not limited to, software/hardware configuration, dashboards customization, integration of analytics/modelling tools, DSSs testing, and DSSs deployment
• Monitor the progress of the DSSs development and report, to the CARE Component 1 Project Director, bottlenecks and challenges in systems development, for immediate resolution
• In coordination with relevant project staff and stakeholders in Pakistan, consolidate feedbacks from stakeholders and ensure the effective communication thereof to the CARE Component 1 Project Director and the System Development Team, so that stakeholders’ feedbacks are addressed
• In consultation with relevant project staff, coordinate with other Stack Developers in Pakistan, in ensuring the integration of users/stakeholders’ requirements into the DSSs
As needed, assist other Full Stack Developers in Pakistan to:
• Develop front-end applications with selected frameworks
• Implement a robust set of functional features and services to power the frontend of the web application
• Build highly complex user interface applications and back-end databases integration using expert-level skills in various web development tools, programming languages, and scripting languages
• Build/develop required modules, for generating climate-informed products for various stakeholders in MoPDSI and Agriculture Departments of Punjab and Balochistan
• Establish linkage of other DSSs developed in Pakistan, as part of CARE, into the DSS for MoPDSI
• Mine data relevant to the required DSSs modules from openly available research hubs
• Integrate required visualizations using web GIS-based technologies
• Develop APIs and Microservices for the DSSs
• Actively address non-functional requirements such as performance, security, scalability, continuous integration, migration, and compatibility
• Implement security and data protection measures
• Optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Translate UI wireframes to frontend visual elements
• Extend the UI interface as and when need arises and integrate it with backend microservices or ETL/ELT processes
• Handle data in different formats XLS, CSV, XML, NetCDF, HDF5, etc. and use these data in the tools development
• Meet the system design and performance, as required by the project
• Maintain consistent, high-quality, stakeholder-focused approach in completing the DSSs
• Support RDAS and its development, including but not limited to, provision/integration of metadata and/or modules, linking of RDAS and DSSs, and facilitating increased access to/use of RDAS and DSSs among stakeholder ministries and departments
• Support the convening of the Communities of Practice and other relevant activities, for driving user-relevant tools development processes