Technical Lead – Digital Health

Core responsibilities:

• Define and steward the technical vision and architecture for digital health and health information systems across countries and programs
• Lead the design and integration of core health information systems (e.g., HIS, DHIS2, EMRs, surveillance, community health systems) and promote interoperability standards
• Act as a senior technical advisor and partner to Ministries of Health and government technical teams, supporting co-design of digital health solutions
• Lead and mentor senior engineers, architects, and technical contributors across distributed teams, fostering technical excellence

This role creates positive change by strengthening health information systems and building resilient digital public infrastructure for health, enabling data-driven decision-making that improves healthcare delivery to vulnerable communities across Africa.

Required qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Health Informatics, Information Systems, or related field with relevant certifications (CISA, TOGAF, AWS/Azure/GCP Solutions Architect, DevOps)
• Extensive experience designing and delivering digital health or health information systems with knowledge of community health tools (CHIS, DHIS2, OpenMRS, CommCare, etc.)
• Proven experience working with government or public-sector health systems and multi-country digital health programs
• Strong background in systems architecture, integration, data platforms, and HIE architectures with understanding of interoperability standards (HL7 FHIR, OpenHIE)

A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.

Living Goods is a leading non-profit organization that innovatively transforms the health of vulnerable communities by leveraging catalytic technology, high-impact training, and quality treatments to empower government community health workers to deliver quality care door-to-door.