Solution Architect Consultant - Digital Health

About the role

Living Goods, which improves access to essential healthcare in underserved regions by giving Community Health Workers digital tools, is looking for a Solution Architect consultant in Nairobi, Kenya. The consultant provides independent technical oversight and assurance of the architecture and design of digital health systems, ensuring alignment with user requirements, enterprise architecture, digital health standards and regulatory requirements. The role reports to the Global Director Digital Health & Government Partnerships and runs for 2 years.

Key responsibilities

• Review proposed system architectures, technology stacks, infrastructure designs and integration approaches against approved requirements, national digital health standards and the national digital health architecture.
• Assess solutions for scalability, performance, reliability, maintainability, resilience and long-term sustainability.
• Evaluate interoperability approaches, including compliance with health information exchange standards such as HL7 FHIR, and data security, privacy and access control under the Data Protection Act.
• Define technical benchmarks and acceptance criteria, identify architectural risks and dependencies, and recommend mitigations.
• Provide documented, evidence-based recommendations to support approval or revision of technical architectures.
• Conduct periodic reviews of implementations to verify adherence to approved designs and standards, and advise on design changes and emerging technologies.
• Maintain independence from development and implementation partners, and work with product, project, QA, cybersecurity and data management teams.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software/Systems Engineering, Health Informatics, Information Systems or a related field; a Master's is an added advantage.
• Enterprise or solution architecture certification (e.g. TOGAF).
• Minimum 6-10 years of software or solution architecture experience, including at least 3-5 years on health information systems or large-scale digital health platforms.
• Experience providing independent technical assurance or audit of vendor-built systems, ideally in a government or donor-funded digital health context.

Required skills

• Demonstrated expertise in FHIR/HL7 interoperability standards and health data exchange.
• Cloud architecture certification (AWS, Azure or GCP) or equivalent.
• Familiarity with data protection and privacy regulations (e.g. the Kenya Data Protection Act) and secure system design.