The Supreme Education Council (SEC) of the State of Qatar is a government institution established to promote and ensure excellence and innovation in K-12 education.

The Education, Evaluation and Higher Education institutes are three independent bodies affiliated with the SEC along with supporting offices to carry out its progressive education reform policies.  As part of the ongoing education reform, the SEC seeks to recruit a highly qualified candidate for the following position:

  

Senior IT Project Manager

 Job Description:

• Set up and manage appropriate governance structures and reporting relationships.

• Participate in project definition workshops.

• Participate in business analysis sessions.

• Analyze problems and propose possible resolution options.

• Plan and conduct the activities for all project phases.

• Establish effective issue and risk management procedures.

• Establish effective change management and benefits management procedures.

• Maintain the documentation for the whole project life cycle.

• Manage the project / application team members to satisfy the project implementation on time with a high quality level.

• Coordinates activities of internal teams or external vendors.

 

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor degree with an emphasis on the development of Computer Information Systems, or other related discipline from an accredited university.

• PMI/PMP certified.

• Minimum of seven years of professional experience with at least three years experience in IT project management.

• Demonstrated experience in project planning methodologies and the use of project management software tools.

• Experience in managing the human, financial and physical resources of a project to ensure the achievement of outputs required.

• Leadership skills and be highly motivated and multi-task oriented.

• Effective communication, liaison and negotiation skills both orally and in writing, with diverse audiences and in diverse situations.

• Experience with educational organizations is a plus.

• Experience with reputable organizations with demanding standards and work ethics is a plus.

• Maintains a good knowledge about the working environment, which includes hardware and software tools, and follows up changes in order to stay current with IT updates specifically with the tools s/he uses.

• Experience in data warehouse or business intelligence reporting projects of a large organization is a plus.

• Fluency in English and Arabic languages.

 

 Business Analyst

 

Job Description:

• Quickly understands the business issues and data challenges of client's organization.

• Identifies client organization's strengths and weaknesses and suggests areas of improvement.

• Reviews and edits requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution.

• Develops functional specifications and system design specifications for client engagements.

• Understanding business process management and business requirements of the customers and translating them to specific software requirements.

• Making sure that the solution recommended is commercial yet competitive.

• Documenting and analyzing the required information and data.

• Understanding the technical designs as well as the specifications.

• Evaluating the information gathered through workshops and surveys, business process description and task analysis.

• Effectively communicating with internal teams and external clients to deliver functional requirements like GUI, screen and interface designs.

• Very strong technical skills coupled with business intelligence and a deep understanding of customer's needs so that they can be transformed into application and operational requirements.

• Acting as an interface between business units, technology teams and support teams.

• Assists in the facilitation of team and client meetings.

• Delivers informative, well-organized presentations.

• Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.

 

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor degree with at least 5+ Years experience with an emphasis on the Analyzing of Computer Information Systems & Business process analysis.

• SQL, database design and analysis concepts ·UML

• Microsoft Visio or equivalent.

 

 Data Architect

 

 Job Description Main Duties:

• Serves as highest level technical expert in data Architecture for software development / infrastructure teams.

• Advises project teams and serves as corner stone in the design and development of new solutions.

• Designs Architectural frameworks for managing data and metadata within SEC systems.

• Frameworks may include: logical and physical data design, data modeling, integration and synchronization of data across systems, data management tools, optimization of data storage and retrieval goals (business and technical), data availability/usability/ security, and data and metadata catalogs.

• Defines the appropriate use of data management tools, principles, and methods related to company system development and operation.

• Develops and drives enterprise information and data Architecture strategies and policies for the overall IT project portfolio for a single area or across multiple functional/operational areas.

• Focus is beyond specific projects, addressing cross project needs and future program direction.

• Leads Proof of Concepts to assist in defining technology direction and enabling business strategy.

• Communicates and validates program Architecture solution and lead Architects, Program / Project Manager, and other stakeholders.

 

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 5 + years of professional data architecture experience with both normalized and de-normalized models.

• A combination of education and experience may be considered. Extensive experience with one or more relational database such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, etc. required.

• Strong SQL/relational database/data modeling skills and experience with metadata documentation tools and data design tools (ERwin/Designed ... ) required.

• Good oral and written communication skills;

• strong work ethic; ability to solve problems quickly; ability to motivate others; and excellent skills in leadership, problem-solving, decision-making, and communication needed.

 

Capabilities:

• Expert knowledge data system platforms and database programming languages.

• Expert knowledge of data security management systems.

• Expert at resolving data related issues including complex data modeling challenges.

• Ability to act as a technical resource and team lead and supervise lower level staff.

• Ability to make and decide upon Architecture tradeoffs and successfully decided and communicates system tradeoffs.

• Experience in designing systems for large educational institutes will be a definite advantage.

• Ability to influence those with whom the incumbent has no direct supervisory authority.

 

Data Architect Addendum:

• Personal experience in the successful execution and delivery of technology solutions.

• Personal experience in development of, or support of Enterprise Data Warehouse efforts.

• Personal experience in the creation of, or support of Data Standards, Frameworks, governance.

• Experience in working in a distributed work environment

• Candidate possesses strong consulting, leadership, and mentoring skills.

• Candidate is able to effectively collaborate and communicate to both business and technical team members.

• Candidate is team oriented along with solution or outcome based solution focused.

 

 Senior Developer

 

Job Description:

• Design program logic to meet program specifications.

• Code program in the required languages.

• Prepare test report for tested programs.

• Test coded programs to validate accuracy.

• Participating in preparing training materials and conduct training session as required.

• Build and deploy developed applications.

• Maintain the development documentation.

• Work with development teams on large projects.

• Work with end users to resolve problems with the applications they use.

• Work with 3rd parties on projects related to the applications they support.

 

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent from an accredited university.

• Minimum of 5 years in Microsoft.NET development with a minimum of 3 years of SharcPoinL.

• understand of the capabilities ofWorkflO\v Foundation.

• Experience with Microsoft Office InfoPath Forms Services is highly preferred. as is cxpcrience with SharePoint Tcmplatcs (Application Templates. Mastcr Pages, RolcBased Templates. and the Community Kit for SharePoint).

• Experience in Team Foundation Server (TFS) source control system and VSTS.

• Designing, Develop and integrating .Net applications in SharePoint MOSS 20 I 0 portal solutions.

• Good background in developing web application.

• Good experience in SQL Server DB and Oracle Databases.

• Knowledge in scanning programming is a plus.

• VB.Net, C#, ASP.Net. . .! ADO / Web Services.

• SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC, XML.

• Background in Share Point is a plus.

• Crystal Report.

• Java Servlets, JSP / Web Services.

• JDBC

• An enterprise-level Application Server (e.g. jBOSS, WebLogic, OC4J(AS) ... )

 

Web Designer

 

Job Description:

• Oversee and participate in the pOital design.

• Responsible for creating the look and feel of World Wide Web pages.

• Developing a graphic design that effectively communicates the ideas being promoted by the Web site.

• Take part in the initial planning of a Web page, meeting with the SEe stakeholders ancl client to discuss ideas for the layout ancl organization of the site.

• Collect the text documents and images that will appear on the page and convert them into a form in which they can be viewed.

• Maintain and update the web site design as required.

 

Job Requirements:

• Diploma degree with an emphasis fine arts graphic design, or publishing or other related discipline from an accredited university.

• Expcrience with SharePoinl Templates (Application Templates. Master Pages. RoleBased Templates. ancl the COlllmunity Kit for SharePoint).

• Good knowledge in creating web pages with a combination of codes, such as HTML and XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Actionscript, ColdFusion, .Net, Flash, or using codegenerating programs, such as Dreamweaver and Visual Studio.

• knowledge of graphic design packages such as Fireworks or Photoshop in order to produce basic layout and manipulate images.

• Skills in web development tools side technologies, such as PHP, j2ee and .Net, and internet security are also important.

• Good skills in multimedia and interactivity.

• Knowledge in lVIicrosolt SharcPoint Scrvcr and .Net dcvelopment. Fluency in English and Arabic languages.

 

The Supreme Education Council offers a competitive salary, benefits package and good working conditions. Only applicants with the required qualifications and experience need apply. Interested applicants should submit their CV with a covering letter to the following Email addresses: itapplication@sec.gov.qa , hrd@sec.gov.qa

Applications should be submitted no later than 14 days from the date of publication.