Technology Director – Global Health

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Maryland, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Spearhead technology modernization initiatives across global health and survey programs.

• Oversee the complete delivery of the program's AI innovation portfolio.

• Manage workstreams related to automated data-to-report production, natural-language data access, multilingual questionnaire design, field data quality, and novel measurement approaches.

• Execute the stage-gate process, conduct go/no-go reviews, discontinue underperforming workstreams, disseminate learnings, and reallocate funding as necessary.

• Act as the primary technical liaison to the funder.

• Lead progress reporting and learning evaluations.

• Collaborate with the project manager to manage the portfolio, schedule, risks, inference costs, and cloud operational expenses.

• Coordinate efforts across global development programs and technology partners.

• Serve as the technical lead and architect for a group of workstreams.

• Take ownership of system design, author design documents, and stay actively involved through prototyping and production phases.

• Establish quantitative quality thresholds and acceptance criteria in conjunction with survey experts.

• Define architecture and engineering standards for model routing, privacy-preserving design, offline deployment, low-connectivity deployment, and security measures.

• Implement engineering practices that include specification-driven development, agentic coding tools, evaluation-first delivery, code reviews, and testing protocols.

• Ensure data quality and comparability across different countries and over time.

• Oversee responsible AI practices, data governance, ethics, ICF security standards, IRB requirements, and partner-country data sovereignty.

• Mentor applied AI, software, ML, and platform engineers.

• Connect technology and survey expertise among methodologists, statisticians, field teams, and engineers.

• Collaborate with national statistical offices and ministries of health to develop deployable tools.

• Share findings through public documentation, publications, and at technical and global health conferences.

• Assist in client engagement, white papers, and proposal development.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.

• At least 10 years of professional experience in designing and implementing technology solutions.

• Proven hands-on experience in architecting multiple complex systems that have been deployed in production.

• Minimum of 5 years in leadership roles, mentoring software or data engineering teams.

• A successful history of architecting and delivering AI/ML or LLM-powered systems in a production environment.

• Experience in leading a multi-workstream technology program for a foundation, donor, or government client, with accountability for budget management and results delivery.

• Extensive knowledge of system architecture, data pipelines, software development methodologies, and familiarity with at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

• Practical experience with agentic coding tools and specification-driven development.

• U.S. citizenship is required due to federal government contract stipulations.

• Proficiency in French or Portuguese is preferred.

• Preferred experience in survey operations, data collection, global health or international development, low-connectivity field systems, national statistical offices or ministries of health, stage-gated R&D, quantitative AI/data acceptance thresholds, multi-country data governance, cybersecurity, publications, or conference presentations.

• An advanced degree in computer science, statistics, demography, public health, or a related area is preferred.

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills.

• Ability to collaborate effectively across both technical and non-technical stakeholders and diverse cultures.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Reasonable accommodations for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs.

• Confidential accommodation support.

• Benefit offerings referenced under the Transparency in Benefits Coverage Act.