Technology Director – Global Health

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🦀 Maryland – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote

💵 $131.3k - $223.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

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ICF

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1969

💼 Consulting

🏛️ Government

🏥 Healthcare

💰 $29M Grant on 2023-03

Consulting • Government • Healthcare

ICF is a global consulting firm founded over 55 years ago that partners with governments, businesses, and communities to deliver data-driven, technology-enabled solutions for complex public- and private-sector challenges. Its work areas include digital modernization, data analytics, resilience and adaptation, energy planning, federal health programs, disaster management, and infrastructure and transportation support. ICF provides consulting, program implementation, and advisory services to drive measurable outcomes and build community resilience.

📋 Description

• Lead technology modernization efforts across global health and survey programs • Own end-to-end delivery of the program's AI innovation portfolio • Manage workstreams covering automated data-to-report production, natural-language data access, multilingual questionnaire design, field data quality, and new measurement approaches • Run stage-gate processes, lead go/no-go reviews, stop underperforming workstreams, publish learnings, and reallocate funding • Serve as principal technical counterpart to the funder and lead progress reporting and learning reviews • Manage the innovation portfolio, schedule, risks, inference costs, and cloud operating costs with the project manager • Coordinate across global development programs and share methods and results • Act as technical lead and architect for workstreams, owning system design and design documentation • Stay hands-on through prototyping and production • Define quantitative acceptance criteria and quality thresholds with survey experts • Set architecture and standards for model selection and routing, privacy-preserving design, offline and low-connectivity deployment, and security • Establish engineering practices including specification-driven development, agentic coding tools, evaluation-first delivery, code review, and testing • Protect data quality and comparability across countries and over time • Oversee responsible AI, data governance, ethics, ICF security standards, IRB requirements, and partner-country data sovereignty • Lead and mentor applied AI, software, ML, and platform engineers • Bridge technology and survey expertise across methodologists, statisticians, field teams, and engineers • Work with national statistical offices and ministries of health to design deployable tools • Share results through public documentation, publications, and technical and global health conferences • Contribute to business growth through client engagement, white papers, and proposal development

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience • Minimum 10 years of professional experience designing and delivering technology solutions • Hands-on architecture of multiple complex systems taken into production • Minimum 5 years leading and mentoring software or data engineering teams • Track record of architecting and delivering AI/ML or LLM-powered systems in production • Experience measuring system quality and identifying failures • 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, software development methods, and at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud • Hands-on familiarity with agentic coding tools and specification-driven development • U.S. citizenship required by federal government contract • Preferred: working proficiency in French or Portuguese • Preferred: survey operations or data collection background • Preferred: global health or international development experience in low- and middle-income countries • Preferred: low-connectivity field data-collection systems or offline/edge deployment experience • Preferred: experience with national statistical offices or ministries of health • Preferred: stage-gated R&D or innovation portfolio leadership • Preferred: quantitative acceptance thresholds for AI or data systems • Preferred: multi-country deployments involving jurisdictional data restrictions, data privacy, governance, and IRB processes • Preferred: cybersecurity practices, security controls, and authorization processes • Preferred: publications or conference presentations in AI, survey methods, or global health • Preferred: advanced degree in computer science, statistics, demography, public health, or a related field • Credibility with engineers and executives • Sound judgment under uncertainty • Excellent communication and presentation skills • Ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders and across cultures • Self-motivated and able to work with limited direct supervision

🏖️ Benefits

• Occasional international travel • Equal opportunity employment • Reasonable accommodations for disabilities, disabled veterans, and sincerely held religious beliefs • Benefits information provided under the Transparency in Coverage Act