
Job Location: | Kabul |
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Nationality: | Afghan |
Category: | Information Technology |
Employment Type: | Full Time |
Salary: | NTA Grade B |
Vacancy Number: | 105- NTA/ ARD/ MOF |
No. Of Jobs: | 4 |
City: | Kabul |
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Organization: | Ministry of Finance |
Years of Experience: | 5 years of information technology experience in the software development and software project management |
Contract Duration: | Till the end of 1403 fiscal year |
Gender: | Male |
Education: | Bachelor’s or master degree in computer science or related field |
Close date: | 2024-06-09 |
The Afghanistan Revenue Department (ARD) depends from the Ministry of Finance (MoF) with a total of 752 MoF HQ employees. ARD administers and collects the tax and non-tax revenue for the GoA in accordance with the Income Tax Law 2009 and the Tax Administration law 2015. ARD’s responsibilities are divided across 2 Deputy Director General, 9 Directorates and 45 Sub Directorates geographically dispersed in Kabul.
In recent years, ARD has made important progress in increasing taxpayers’ compliance and tax revenue collection with the support of the donor community. These efforts include a wide range of reforms and structural changes within the ARD, particularly joining the different groups by the name of Large, Medium and small to one Taxpayer’s Services Directorate and centralization of the services to all taxpayers and the extension of these offices to some selected provinces.
ARD is currently using Standard Integrated Government Tax Administration System (SIGTAS) as the core system for the tax administration, Taxpayer activity information system (TAIS) for all types of rental and commercial contracts management from all public and private organizations, Revenue information management system (RMIS) for revenue forecasting, targets setting for provinces and monitoring collection both types of tax and non-tax revenues.
The ARD needs technical support in the implementation of the strategic plan for the modernization of the tax system in technology and functionalities by aiding in understanding the current data model as well as the development of a sustainable model for the modernization of the system based on open source technologies as per the Digital Foundation Strategy for Afghanistan. The senior software developer will collect enough notes about the requirements to start the process of building a set of business workflows and technical specifications.
The Senior software developer will assist the Afghanistan Revenue Department (ARD) and provincial tax administration staff on existing systems (SIGTAS, TAIS, RMIS and e-filling), Enhance and customize the existing systems, development of new systems and achievement of IPBenchmarks and in implementing international standards of tax administration in accordance with the laws of Afghanistan, through a contract from the Ministry of Finance
The senior software developer will be framed by the following documents:
a: Existing SIGTAS user guides, dated 2009-2012.
b: Existing ASP.NET MVC and core applications, documentation and user guides.
c: Digital Foundation Strategy for Afghanistan dated 2019.
d: Any other documents that will help the service to expand the background and understand better the local context.
Scope of work:
The national consultant will work in close collaboration with the sub-director for development; with his/her direct reports to that role (proposed sub-directorate under the proposed structure), She/he will liaise with the Director of Revenue Systems.
Direct Report to the proposed sub-Directorate.
Work under the supervision of the proposed sub-directorate.
Share the documents (FDD, TDD …), tasks status, Systems Backups and the source codes and any other official resources to the proposed sub-directorate after each update (at least once per week).
Tasks and Activities:
The authorities concerned will carry out the following tasks and activities but not necessarily restricted to those:
a: Using the open standards and open source frameworks for all RSD systems (SIGTAS, E-Filing, TAIS, RMIS and other services systems) to improve the systems, processes and productivity.
b: Being a part of the change management (release) process to develop and implement new applications and updates to existing applications.
c: Coordinating SIGTAS related activities for; development, systems, database and network administration and overseeing the implemented systems and applications.
d: Providing proactive and practical support to the operational and management teams of the ARD with an emphasis on the uptake of SIGTAS improvements including enhancements, troubleshooting, reporting, etc.
e: Plan and direct the work of other IT professionals, including system analysts, software developers, information security analysts, and support specialists.
f: Making recommendations to build new application for productivity and process simplification.
g: Review completed tasks to ascertain compliance with standards.
h: Monitor all software development team members and provide necessary advice and guidance.
i: Perform risk assessments and observe risk control strategies while developing software’s.
j: Work alongside other departments to achieve ARD’s goals and visions.
k: Write and provide regular reports to the management.
l: Perform regular appraisal of team member’s performance and devise strategies to help with improvement.
m: Supervising other IT national consultants and ARD employees in taking ownership of SIGTAS and implicate the necessary IT resources to support the LTO, MTO and STO staff and other concerned ARD directorates.
Deliverables:
The service will draft reports describing main results and recommendations:
a: Draft a detailed and well-developed Technical Design Document (TDD) for the SIGTAS and other systems, based on business requirements (Functional Specifications), in accordance with the Digital Foundation Strategy for Afghanistan.
b: Draft a detailed list of customizations in the current system for enhancing the performance and business requirements of the day.
c: Draft a detailed list of system audit policies & checklists for both application and database levels for the current and the new system.
d: To support the ARD DBA team on database performance tuning and analysis plan with best practices for the new system.
e: Integration with NSIA for E-Tazkira and Paper-Tazkira, ACBR & Ministry of urban development and Land (MUDL) RMIS integration and Customization TAIS and its Integration with NPA and MOMP (through this integration ARD will import contract automatically and securely).
f: Implementing E-Payment of LTO, MTO and STO.
g: Finalizing Workflow Module, Customize E-Filing Attachments 5 type of documents for each period and E-Filing all withholding Excel uploads.
h: Developing RSD Systems Dashboard and Developing Individual E-Filing.
i: Application for Sending SMS and DB-Mail Configuration and implementation.
j: E-payment mandatory for LTO (Banking, Telecommunication and Aviation sectors) and available for optional use in MTO taxpayers.
k: SIGTAS customization, customize TIN online portal development for Enterprise taxpayer TIN issuance for and completing e-TCC integration with ACBR
Qualifications:
The expert qualification is:
a) Bachelor’s or master degree in computer science or related field
b) 5 years of information technology experience in the software development and software project management.
c) SOLID understanding and detailed experience with object oriented based design patterns, MVC architecture and frameworks, and event driven design.
d) Extensive knowledge of data processing, asp.net MVC and core platforms, and enterprise software applications.
e) Technical experience with systems networking, databases, Web development, and user support.
f) Experience in the development and implementation of standards, procedures and guidelines to support operational processes.
g) Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities.
h) Strong interpersonal, communication skills and Experience in technical writing such as functional specification, technical specification, etc.
i) Experience in Quality Assurance and Quality Control and Experience is Risk analysis and mitigation
Qualified applicants are encouraged to submit their CVs ,no later than 09 June2024.
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