Technical Lead – Digital Health
Nairobi, Kenya
Full Time
Manager/Supervisor
Role: Technical Lead – Digital Health
Reports to: Global Director, Digital Health and Government Partnerships
Location: Africa Based within LG locations: Kenya, Uganda, Burkina Faso
About Living Goods:
Living Goods (LG) is a leading non-profit organization innovatively transforming the health of vulnerable communities. Living Goods leverages a powerful combination of catalytic technology, high-impact training, and quality treatments that empower government community health workers (CHWs) to deliver quality care to their neighbors’ doorsteps. These CHWs also earn meaningful compensation and enhance their stature in the process, reinforcing a virtuous cycle of trust.
The organization prides itself on its agile and quick-footed approach and has embedded experimentation, innovation, and research into its DNA. Additionally, Living Goods pushes itself to account for quantifiable and aggressive targets designed to drive health impact. It is this high performance and innovative culture that has pushed LG to learn, adapt, and optimize its approaches in cases where targets aren’t achieved or when local circumstances change. Consequently, the organization and its impact on the lives of the most vulnerable and underprivileged groups has attracted incredible talent from a multiplicity of backgrounds, expertise, race, and cultures as it grows and expands its footprint.
The Opportunity:
The Technical Lead – Digital Health will provide senior technical and system architectural leadership for the design, implementation, and scale-up of national and multi-country digital health systems. Working in close partnership with Ministries of Health, Software Engineering teams and Country teams, this role will strive to ensure that digital health solutions are interoperable, secure, sustainable, and aligned with national health priorities and global best practices. The Technical Lead operates at the intersection of technology, public health, and policy supporting governments and country teams to strengthen health information systems, enable data use for decision-making, and build resilient digital public infrastructure for health.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Technical & Architectural Leadership
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 an equal opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information. If offered a role at Living Goods, we’ll request consent to complete a background check, which is part of our hiring process.
Reports to: Global Director, Digital Health and Government Partnerships
Location: Africa Based within LG locations: Kenya, Uganda, Burkina Faso
About Living Goods:
Living Goods (LG) is a leading non-profit organization innovatively transforming the health of vulnerable communities. Living Goods leverages a powerful combination of catalytic technology, high-impact training, and quality treatments that empower government community health workers (CHWs) to deliver quality care to their neighbors’ doorsteps. These CHWs also earn meaningful compensation and enhance their stature in the process, reinforcing a virtuous cycle of trust.
The organization prides itself on its agile and quick-footed approach and has embedded experimentation, innovation, and research into its DNA. Additionally, Living Goods pushes itself to account for quantifiable and aggressive targets designed to drive health impact. It is this high performance and innovative culture that has pushed LG to learn, adapt, and optimize its approaches in cases where targets aren’t achieved or when local circumstances change. Consequently, the organization and its impact on the lives of the most vulnerable and underprivileged groups has attracted incredible talent from a multiplicity of backgrounds, expertise, race, and cultures as it grows and expands its footprint.
The Opportunity:
The Technical Lead – Digital Health will provide senior technical and system architectural leadership for the design, implementation, and scale-up of national and multi-country digital health systems. Working in close partnership with Ministries of Health, Software Engineering teams and Country teams, this role will strive to ensure that digital health solutions are interoperable, secure, sustainable, and aligned with national health priorities and global best practices. The Technical Lead operates at the intersection of technology, public health, and policy supporting governments and country teams to strengthen health information systems, enable data use for decision-making, and build resilient digital public infrastructure for health.
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
- Experience in multi-country digital health programs or national health system implementations
- Experience in capacity building and technical advisory roles with Ministries of Health
- 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 is a plus (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
- Comfortable operating in complex, resource-constrained, and policy-driven environments
- Communication & Facilitation - clear communicator across technical and non-technical groups
- Demonstrates a continuous learning mindset, proactively seeking new knowledge, tools, and approaches to enhance performance and impact.
- Moderate travel (40-50%) across country programs and to partner/government meetings; flexible hours to support cross-time-zone collaboration.
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 an equal opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information. If offered a role at Living Goods, we’ll request consent to complete a background check, which is part of our hiring process.
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