Technical Lead - Digital Health at Living Goods
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- Kenya
- Permanent
- Full-time
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Technical & Architectural Leadership
- Define and steward the technical vision and architecture for digital health and health information systems for advisory across countries and programs
- Ensure alignment with national digital health strategies, enterprise architectures, and health sector priorities
- Lead technology and platform decisions with a focus on scalability, sustainability, and country ownership
- Ensure solutions are designed for long-term support, adaptability, and local ownership
- Develop and contribute to technical assessments, roadmaps and analysis that balance immediate delivery needs with long-term system evolution
- Lead the design and integration of 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)
- Guide the development of data pipelines and analytics architectures that support timely, high-quality data use in collaboration with the government, country teams and software engineering teams.
- Provide technical oversight across multiple digital health initiatives or country implementations
- Identify and mitigate technical, operational, and data-related risks
- Support prioritization, sequencing, and trade-offs of digital health items in collaboration with programs, product, and country leads
- Act as a senior technical advisor and partner to Ministries of Health and government technical teams
- Support co-design of digital health solutions with country stakeholders, ensuring responsiveness to policy, operational, and service delivery needs
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with government counterparts and local implementing partners
- Support capacity strengthening in digital leadership and ensure gradual transition of system ownership to government and country teams
- Ensure systems adhere to best practices in data security, privacy, and ethical data use
- Support compliance with national regulations and international standards for health data governance
- Establish and enforce quality assurance, documentation, and technical review processes
- Lead and mentor senior engineers, architects, and technical contributors across distributed teams
- Set expectations for technical rigor, interoperability, and maintainability
- Foster a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Health Informatics, Information Systems, or a related field
- Certifications in Certified Information Systems Architect (CISA) or TOGAF or 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 the Global Health Digital Health guidelines
- Knowledge of digital health standards, interoperability frameworks, and global digital health guidance
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