Technology Director — Global Health

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ICFGlobal health technology

This position can be remote within the United StatesFull-TimeDirector

Salary131,256 - 223,134 USD per year

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Languages: Working proficiency in French or Portuguese preferred.
Experience: Minimum 10 years of professional experience designing and delivering technology solutions, including hands-on architecture of multiple complex systems taken into production; minimum 5 years leading and mentoring software or data engineering teams.
Required Skills: AWSGCPMicrosoft AzureLLM

Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
At least 10 years of professional experience designing and delivering technology solutions.
Hands-on architecture experience with multiple complex systems taken into production.
At least 5 years leading and mentoring software or data engineering teams.
A track record of architecting and delivering AI/ML or LLM-powered systems in production, including explaining how quality was measured and where systems failed.
Experience leading a multi-workstream technology program for a foundation, donor, or government client, with accountability for budget and results.
Deep knowledge of system architecture, data pipelines, and software development methods.
Experience with at least one major cloud platform, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
Hands-on familiarity with agentic coding tools and specification-driven development, including experience setting team practices for their use.
Working proficiency in French or Portuguese is preferred.
Experience in survey operations, global health or international development, low-connectivity field data collection, or multi-country data governance is preferred.

Own delivery of the program’s AI innovation portfolio across its technology workstreams.
Lead stage-gate reviews, make go/no-go decisions, publish lessons learned, and reallocate funding when needed.
Serve as the principal technical counterpart to the funder and lead progress reporting and learning reviews.
Manage the innovation portfolio, schedule, and risks with the project manager, including inference and cloud operating costs.
Act as technical lead and architect for workstream clusters, owning system design and participating hands-on from prototyping through production.
Set quantitative acceptance criteria with survey experts and evaluate tools against those thresholds.
Establish portfolio architecture and standards for model selection and routing, privacy-preserving design, offline deployment, and security.
Set engineering practices for specification-driven development, agentic coding tools, evaluation-first delivery, code review, and testing.
Work with survey methodologists to protect data quality and comparability across countries and over time.
Lead and mentor the technology team and collaborate with survey experts, field teams, national statistical offices, ministries of health, and country partners.

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