IntraHealth International
The Principal Architect serves multiple roles in new business development, capacity building and team management. Responsibilities as Principal Architect include delivering enterprise-ready architectures, software, standards, and technical support of IntraHealth’s digital health solutions. In addition, the Principal Architect also manages the software engineering team to ensure technical standards of excellence and professional development and technical leadership. She/he develops and maintains external relationships with donors and partners in the global digital health technical landscape.
This position can be based remotely, or from our Chapel Hill, North Carolina office.
Main Responsibilities Include
- Evaluates technologies, architectures, and standards and oversees their implementation from concept to working product and advises on the choices of suitable technologies.
- Publicly promotes IntraHealth’s Global Goods and has a passion for staying current and experimenting with new standards, approaches, and tools while balancing the need to support legacy infrastructure and locally-led governance and ownership of health information systems
- Manages the delivery and support of enterprise-level solutions, prioritizing the protection of patient data, cybersecurity, help desk support, and the production of technical documentation required for implementers to succeed.
- Builds country digital health capacity to implement sustainable services and applications that contribute to improved health outcomes.
- Mentors the software engineering team to ensure staff welfare, career growth and professional development are accelerated
- Builds partnerships with donors, digital health community leaders and the private sector for shared, standards-based solutions.
Experience
- Master’s Degree and 10 years of experience in Digital Health, Informatics, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Statistics, Epidemiology, and direct NGO Programs experience all preferably in a public health environment, or a PhD/MD and six years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor’s Degree and 12 years of relevant experience.
- Six years experience technical supervision of a team of Software Engineers, or substantial technical supervisory experience in developing country contexts and/or humanitarian settings.
- Demonstrated proficiency in at least two programming languages.
- At least five years of experience with providing enterprise-level IT or HIS support.
- Demonstrated experience working with governments in LMICs
- Strong communicator with a proven ability to explain and write about digital health technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact culturally, linguistically, and diplomatically with diverse internal and external individuals.
- Comfortable managing in a flexible, changing and virtual environment, with the ability to be ready to adjust plans and direction in response to local feedback and the iterative nature of digital health projects.
- Excellent oral and written technical communication skills in English required.
- Deep understanding of global health and digital health landscape.
- Experience in a public health domain, e.g. HIV, ANC, reproductive health.
Why join IntraHealth?
IntraHealth International is a global health nonprofit that has worked in more than 100 countries since 1979. We improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work so that everyone everywhere has the health care they need to thrive.
Our programs generate long-term social and economic impact to keep communities around the world healthy, strong, and prosperous. And our dynamic staff are passionate about global health and equity. We are committed to excellence.
Join us. The future of global health starts here.
Our Benefits
IntraHealth is a great place to work. We offer competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package, and flexible teleworking and remote work policies that reflect our focus on staff safety, well-being, and retention.
Our workplace culture
IntraHealth stands for equality, justice, and respect. We strive to be an antiracist organization that works to minimize power imbalances and increase local sustainability in global health. We aim to create and foster a workforce that reflects and contributes to the diverse global community in which we work. Join us and be part of it.
Learn more about our workplace culture: https://www.intrahealth.org/our-workplace-culture
Our COVID-19 safety measures
IntraHealth is a global health organization that knows the power of vaccines. All US-based IntraHealth staff are required to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 before beginning work. Those who cannot get vaccinated for medical or religious reasons can request an accommodation. This helps us keep our staff and partners safe and ensures that IntraHealth—as a US government contractor—complies with all US federal government regulations.
Equal opportunity employer
IntraHealth International is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, and requires affirmative action to ensure equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment. This is also to include inquiry about, disclosing, or discussing their compensation or the compensation of other applicants or employees.
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