National Enterprise Architecture Expert

General Description of task(s) and objectives to be achieved

Under the overall managerial administrative leadership and supervision of the FAO Representative (FAOR) in Indonesia, over-all technical guidance from the technical officer in the Investment Centre (CFI) with the technical backstopping of the Lead Technical Officer (LTO), in close collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture, the national Enterprise Architecture Expert will: ·         Engage national partners and stakeholders to set up the national e-agriculture taskforce, undertake the needs and gaps analysis, develop the e-agriculture strategy and action plan; ·         Organise regular meetings with the project team, Ministry of Agriculture, Centre for Agricultural Data and System Information (CADIS), Strategic Agricultural Command Centre (KOSTRA TANI), partners of the Agricultural War Room development; ·         Provide technical support to the international consultant to undertake the ICT-related needs and gaps assessment for the operationalisation of the AWR and identification of the needed ICT solutions to be reflected in the e-agriculture strategy and action plan; ·         Contribute to the development of the e-agriculture vision document, ensuring key national stakeholders support and contribute to its preparation; ·         Provide and document IT and EA technical solutions and practical examples in support to identified AWR IT-related issues with national partners; ·         Organise and provide trainings to national partners on specific priority ICT solutions, targeted technical elements related to e-agriculture solutions and the operationalization of the AWR. Trainings will include elements related to ICT development, e-agriculture, standards, ICT solutions, agricultural data, data integrity, lessons learnt; ·         Organise workshops in support to provincial capacity development on digital agriculture innovations, e-agriculture solutions and ICT; ·         Develop the national e-agriculture vision document, highlighting the roles of key stakeholders in supporting the implementation of e-agricultural services and solutions; ·         Develop the national e-agriculture action plan, that provides priority solutions with detailed information, technical specifications, required resources for the various national entities to be involved in its implementation; ·         Provide technical support to the national e-agriculture taskforce presenting the results from this project including the national e-agriculture vision, action plan to the various stakeholders to receive inputs and then submit the draft national e-agriculture strategy to MoA; ·         Conduct workshops that focus on building provincial capacities in utilizing FAO and other digital agriculture systems. The workshop also aims to train government staff in identifying, developing and maintaining sustainability of e-agriculture solutions which may be related to ICT, data access, partnerships, data integrity protocols, standards, land cover/use representation systems, objectives, targets indicators etc. ·         Prepare technical guidance and standard operating procedure documents.

Key performance indicators

Expected Outputs/ Deliverables: ·         Workplan prepared and updated regularly; ·         Minutes and proceedings of meetings, workshops and events organised with the national e-agriculture taskforce; ·         Need and gap assessment for the operationalization of the AWR prepared; ·         National e-agriculture vision document prepared; ·         National e-agriculture action plan with detailed information, technical specifications, prepared; ·         Training materials on targeted technical elements related to e-agriculture solutions and the operationalization of the AWR developed with examples for two agricultural commodities; ·         Guidance note provided to national consultants in support to identified IT solutions; ·         Mission Reports (as required).

Requirement: ·         Advanced university degree in computer science/Information Technology/ Computer Engineering or in Agriculture/Environmental/Natural Sciences; ·         3+ years professional experience in modern enterprise software applications and computer programming; ·         Prior experience to work with Government entities will be advantage; ·         In-depth knowledge of databases, distributed systems, and modern enterprise software architecture, in particular related to cloud-based and geospatial information; ·         Strong experience writing, developing and presenting technical content for external audiences; ·         Strong knowledge in machine learning techniques (e.g. Neural Networks, Tree based learning, Clustering etc.), data-center (compute/storage/virtualization), networking (campus/wireless/data-center), and developing technology pilots/proof of concepts to demonstrate technical capabilities; ·         Applied experience to develop infrastructure platforms for agricultural or environmental monitoring is an asset; ·         Demonstrated expertise in SQL and one or more languages commonly used in data analytics (Python, R, Java, Scala etc.); ·         Excellent communication and workshop facilitation skills; ·         Working knowledge of English.

Duty station: Indonesia 

 

Duration: 6 months

 

General Note to All Applicants :

Interested candidates should submit a CV and a covering letter ( In English) clearly stating their relevant skills, experience and email to : FAO-ID@fao.org, Submission deadline : 20 April 2021. All candidates should possess computer/word processing skills. FAO reserves the right not to make an appointment at a lower grade or to make an appointment with a modified job description. FAO regrets to inform applicants that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Qualified female applicants and qualified nationals of non-and under-represented member countries are encouraged to apply. Persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.