Technical Lead – Digital Health

Strategic Technical & Architectural Leadership:

• Define and steward the technical vision and architecture for digital health and health information systems across countries and programs
• Lead technology and platform decisions with focus on scalability, sustainability, and country ownership
• Design and integrate core health information systems (e.g., HIS, DHIS2, EMRs, surveillance, community health systems)
• Promote and implement interoperability standards and frameworks (e.g., FHIR, OpenHIE, national HIEs)

Government & Country Partnerships:

• Act as senior technical advisor and partner to Ministries of Health and government technical teams
• Support co-design of digital health solutions with country stakeholders
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with government counterparts and local implementing partners
• Ensure systems adhere to best practices in data security, privacy, and ethical data use

Leadership, Mentorship & Technical Excellence:

• Lead and mentor senior engineers, architects, and technical contributors across distributed teams
• Set expectations for technical rigor, interoperability, and maintainability
• Foster culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement

This role creates positive change by strengthening health information systems, enabling data use for decision-making, and building resilient digital public infrastructure for health, ultimately improving the health of vulnerable communities through empowered community health workers.

Required qualifications & experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Health Informatics, Information Systems, or related field
• Certifications in CISA, TOGAF, AWS/Azure/GCP Solutions Architect (Professional levels), or relevant DevOps Certifications
• Extensive experience designing and delivering digital health or health information systems with knowledge of community health information systems (CHIS), DHIS2, OpenMRS, CommCare, RapidPro, OpenSRP, or similar tools
• Proven experience working with government or public-sector health systems
• Strong background in systems architecture, integration, data platforms, and HIE architectures
• Understanding of national digital health architectures, interoperability standards (HL7 FHIR, OpenHIE, SNOMED, ICD-10) and Global Health Digital Health guidelines
• Experience in multi-country digital health programs or national health system implementations
• Experience in capacity building and technical advisory roles with Ministries of Health

Desirable skills:

• Experience working directly with government digitization initiatives including costing/planning/policy advising
• Technical familiarity with product lifecycles, user-centred design, or basic data engineering/analytics
• Fluency in French (for Burkina Faso engagement)
• Strategic and systems thinking grounded in public health realities
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into actionable guidance for non-technical stakeholders
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and advisory skills

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 innovatively transforming 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.