Chief Technical Advisor

The advisor provides independent technical assurance for Tajikistan’s free-economic-zone Single Window Platform, guiding requirements, architecture, cybersecurity, procurement and contractor delivery, validating testing and integrations, and steering governance, risk and knowledge transfer through go-live.

• Define platform scope, requirements and a testable technical terms of reference
• Validate budget, acceptance criteria, staged payments and procurement evaluation design
• Assess bids and provide independent technical opinions to the evaluation panel
• Endorse solution architecture, integrations, cybersecurity and data governance
• Quality-assure business-process analysis and technical specifications
• Oversee system integration testing, user acceptance testing and go-live readiness
• Chair technical working groups and maintain the technical risk register

• Advanced university degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems or a closely related field, or an accepted alternative qualification with additional experience
• At least ten years of international ICT-for-development, digital-government or trade-facilitation experience, including five years at senior level
• Delivery of at least one national Single Window or customs-modernisation system to operational go-live
• Fluency in English

• International consultant assignment
• Home-based with missions to Dushanbe and free-economic-zone regions