Programmer Analyst (Data Management Unit), Paediatrics & Child Health -MC

Introduction

: The Outreach and Research Programme of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health has ten community-based field sites across Pakistan (including four in Karachi) and focuses on research for betterment of women and child health. The Department has a Nutritional Research Laboratory as well as an Infectious Disease Research Laboratory that cater to the needs of its research projects. It has well-acclaimed work to its credit both at the national and international level.As an equal opportunity employer, AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees / trainees and partners to share this commitment.

Responsibilities :  You will be expected to :

• work as a member of the development team to meet project deadlines set by the team lead or manager
• engage in continuous self‑learning of new tools and apply them to deliver effective solutions
• collaborate within an agile team using leading‑edge technologies
• understand current processes and contribute to process automation and digitization initiatives
• collect, manipulate, pre‑process and analyze large, complex datasets from various sources
• develop and prototype experimental solutions including machine learning models
• support data extraction, wrangling, analysis and interpretation
• perform any other task assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements : You should have :

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.

Disclaimer :

The Aga Khan University is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment which is free from discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at AKU are based on business needs, job requirements and individual’s qualifications and experience, without regard to race, colour, caste or creed, national, social or ethnic origin, gender (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification). AKU does not discriminate among the job candidates on account of any of these characteristics.