Technology Director — Global Health; REMOTE

ICF's Global Health and Development (GHD) line of business, part of the Health, People, and Human Services (HPHS) Group, is seeking a Technology Director to lead technology modernization efforts across various global health and survey programs. This is a hands‑on leadership role. You will own delivery of the program's technology work from end to end. You will also serve as one of its technical leads and architects, designing systems yourself as well as directing the team that builds them.

You will bridge ICF's applied AI and software engineers with its survey methodologists, statisticians, field operations staff, and country partners. You will be accountable to the funder for results, including the decision to redirect work that isn't performing and move the funding to work that is.

This position can be remote within the United States, with occasional international travel. It is contingent upon award of program funding.

• Own delivery of the program's AI innovation portfolio. The work streams cover automated data-to-report production, natural-language data access, multilingual questionnaire design, field data quality, and new measurement approaches.
• Run the stage-gate process. Lead go/no-go reviews, and make and defend decisions to stop work streams, publish what they learned, and reallocate their funding.
• Serve as the principal technical counterpart to the funder. Lead progress reporting and learning reviews. Communicate results candidly, including negative ones.
• Manage the innovation portfolio, schedule, and risks with the project manager, including inference and cloud operating costs.
• Coordinate across global development programs. Share successes, failures, and methods with technology partners to avoid duplicating work.

• Act as technical lead and architect for a cluster of work streams. Own their system design, write the design documents, and stay hands‑on through prototyping and production.
• Define acceptance criteria before the work is judged. With survey experts, set the quantitative quality thresholds each tool must meet, and hold the team (and yourself) to them.
• Set architecture and standards across the portfolio: model selection and routing, privacy-preserving design, offline and low-connectivity deployment, and security.
• Set engineering practice for the team, including specification-driven development with agentic coding tools, evaluation-first delivery, code review, and testing.
• Protect data quality and comparability. Work with survey methodologists so that no innovation breaks the comparability of data across countries and over time.
• Oversee responsible AI, data governance, and ethics. Make sure the program meets ICF security standards, IRB requirements, and partner-country data sovereignty expectations.

• Lead and mentor the program's technology team, including applied AI, software, ML, and platform engineers.
• Bridge technology and survey expertise. Make sure survey methodologists, statisticians, and field teams shape what gets built, and that engineers understand how surveys work.
• Work with national statistical offices and ministries of health, together with ICF's country engagement leads, to design tools that countries want and can run on their own.
• Share the program's results openly through public documentation, publications, and presentations at technical and global health conferences.
• Contribute to business growth efforts including proactive engagement with potential clients, preparation of white papers, and proposal development.

• Bachelors degree in IT, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience)
• Min…